Monday, September 13, 2004
Laridian Adds NIV Study Bible Notes
Posted by Brad Adrian in "SOFTWARE" @ 09:38 AM
You probably know that several of us on the Thoughts Team use the Laridian Pocket Bible and its various modules and translations. One thing that many Pocket Bible users have been asking and waiting for is the New International Version (NIV) Study Bible Notes. Well, the wait is over!
"[With the NIV Study Bible Notes] you'll enjoy convenient access to over 20,000 of the Zondervan NIV Study Bible's Gold Medallion Award-winning study notes—recently updated and expanded to reflect the most current conservative Bible scholarship. These notes place at your fingertips a treasury of commentary from today's top evangelical scholars. The NIV Study Bible Notes cover more than two-thirds of the verses in the Bible."
The 21,381 comments...
• Explain important words and concepts
• Interpret "difficult verses"
• Draw parallels between specific people and events
• Describe historical and textual contexts of passages
• Demonstrate how one passages sheds light on another
I've been using the paper-based version of the NIV Study Bible for over twelve years, and the thing that (to me) makes it different from other study guides is that it helps set the CONTEXT of the various passages. It does this through helpful notes about what was happening in the "background" of a passage or era, or by explaining terminology. For a more thorough description of what the focus of this guide is, there's plenty of help on the Laridian site.
This is an add-on for the NIV translation, but if you already own the NIV translation from Laridian, you can get the new Study Notes for only $14.99. If you don't own the NIV yet, you can get it and the Study Notes for $29.99. [Note: If you're already a Pocket Bible user, you need to download the (free) updates to Pocket Bible and the NIV translation before you can use the new Study Notes.]
"[With the NIV Study Bible Notes] you'll enjoy convenient access to over 20,000 of the Zondervan NIV Study Bible's Gold Medallion Award-winning study notes—recently updated and expanded to reflect the most current conservative Bible scholarship. These notes place at your fingertips a treasury of commentary from today's top evangelical scholars. The NIV Study Bible Notes cover more than two-thirds of the verses in the Bible."
The 21,381 comments...
• Explain important words and concepts
• Interpret "difficult verses"
• Draw parallels between specific people and events
• Describe historical and textual contexts of passages
• Demonstrate how one passages sheds light on another
I've been using the paper-based version of the NIV Study Bible for over twelve years, and the thing that (to me) makes it different from other study guides is that it helps set the CONTEXT of the various passages. It does this through helpful notes about what was happening in the "background" of a passage or era, or by explaining terminology. For a more thorough description of what the focus of this guide is, there's plenty of help on the Laridian site.
This is an add-on for the NIV translation, but if you already own the NIV translation from Laridian, you can get the new Study Notes for only $14.99. If you don't own the NIV yet, you can get it and the Study Notes for $29.99. [Note: If you're already a Pocket Bible user, you need to download the (free) updates to Pocket Bible and the NIV translation before you can use the new Study Notes.]
