B&H Publishing is excited to bring you The Study Bible for Women.
I am thrilled to receive a copy to review and a copy to give to my pastor’s wife and music director at our church!
I chose the Teal/Sage LeatherTouch cover.
Look! It’s my favorite color! Gorgeous!
Edited by Rhonda Harrington Kelley, and with a lovely introduction by Dorothy Kelley Patterson, The Study Bible for Women is complete with a pretty presentation page (love the font!) and room to write all the family tree info and life’s events and milestones.
I especially like the pages for Spiritual Mothers (a list to write mentor info and verses referencing spiritual gifts) and The Ketubah (The Jewish Marriage Contract).
While Christine (my pastor’s wife) and I were looking for the translation info on the title page, Neal (our pastor) sauntered over and was impressed that it’s a Holman. His go-to Bible is a Holman, so he approves! yay!
So, apparently the HCSB, Holman Christian Standard Bible, is a fairly new translation – the first full edition was completed in March 2004. Info about the translation are in the introductory pages. I am interested in comparing it to the ones I have on hand.
Textual base for the New Testament is the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, 27th edition, and the United Bible Societies’ Greek New Testament, 4th corrected edition. The text for the Old Testament is the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 5th edition.
And the How to Use Guide lists grammatical tools – such as diagramming sentences – can help in personal Bible study. Oh, I am so doing this more! Liz and I already do this together in Latin and English grammar. Love this so much!
Throughout the Bible, there are sections for Word Study, Character Profiles, Biblical Womanhood, Hard Questions, Doctrine, maps, and many other tools.
I love the Word Study!
Character profiles are always helpful while reading.
Hard questions help me to think about myself and apply the Bible lesson to my actions, heart, feelings, thoughts…
The Doctrine lessons are very educational and I love the background info on various issues and people.
At the end of each book of the Bible is a great little section called “Written on my Heart” which is a few sentences about why that book is important and makes the lessons personal to YOU. I love it!
I love the perfect timing of receiving such an intellectual study Bible just in time for the Lenten season. God surely knew I needed something to boost my spiritual life – in our time of upheaval with preparing for a PCS move. Thank you, Jesus. I can’t wait to read this as my devotions and I plan to share it with my daughter so she can glean from it too! (I may get her the pink one of her very own as a gift!)
This is sure to be a treasured Bible to use as a resource for the rest of my life.
Also available in Chocolate Genuine Leather, Sky Blue/Deep Red LeatherTouch, and Brown/Pink LeatherTouch
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