This combined A Reader's Greek New Testament and A Reader's Hebrew Bible offers the following features: * Complete text of the Hebrew and Aramaic Bible, using the Westminister Leningrad Codex * Greek text underlying Today's New International Version---with footnotes comparing wherever this text is different from the UBS4 text * Footnoted definitions of all Hebrew words occurring 100 times or less---twenty-five or less for Aramaic words---with context-specific glosses * Footnoted definitions of all Greek words occurring thirty times or less * Lexicons of all Hebrew words occurring more than 100 times and Greek words occurring more than thirty times * Eight pages of full-color maps separate the OT and NT sections Ideal for students, pastors, and instructors, A Reader's Hebrew and Greek Bible saves time and effort in studying the Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament. By eliminating the need to look up definitions, the footnotes allow you to more quickly read the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek text. Featuring fine-grain black European leather binding, A Reader's Hebrew and Greek Bible is a practical, attractive, and surprisingly affordable resource.
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A. Philip Brown II (PhD, Bob Jones University) is Professor of Bible and Theology at God's Bible School and College in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bryan W. Smith (PhD, Bob Jones University) is Bible integration coordinator at Bob Jones University Press.
Richard J. Goodrich (Ph.D., University of St. Andrews) is lecturer in the department of history at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.
Albert Lukaszewski (PhD New Testament, University of Saint Andrews) is co-chair of the Hellenistic Greek Language and Linguistics Section of the international meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. He has also served as editor of the Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament and is author of the forthcoming Grammar of Qumran Aramaic. He lives with his family on the east coast of Scotland.
Bryan W. Smith (PhD, Bob Jones University) is Bible integration coordinator at Bob Jones University Press.
Richard J. Goodrich (Ph.D., University of St. Andrews) is lecturer in the department of history at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.
Albert Lukaszewski (PhD New Testament, University of Saint Andrews) is co-chair of the Hellenistic Greek Language and Linguistics Section of the international meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. He has also served as editor of the Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament and is author of the forthcoming Grammar of Qumran Aramaic. He lives with his family on the east coast of Scotland.
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A. Philip Brown II (1971- ) teaches NT Greek and Biblical Hebrew as well as English Bible, Theology, and Homiletics classes at God's Bible School and College in Cincinnati, OH (www.gbs.edu). Philip completed a BA in Ministerial Studies from Hobe Sound Bible College (1993), an MA in Bible (1995) and a PhD in Old Testament Interpretation (2002) from Bob Jones University. He is happily married to Marianne Slagenweit and has three sons Allan (b. 2004), Daniel, (b. 2006), and Stephen (b. 2008). He is an ordained elder in the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches and serves as a SS teacher and board member at Burlington Bible Methodist Church in Burlington, KY. He is passionate about rearing God-loving, Kingdom-building, world-changing children, and about virtually anything to do with the Bible. His recreational interests include camping, tennis, biking, snorkeling, and computers (www.apbrown2.net).
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63 of 65 people found the following review helpful
By David Libby
Format:Leather Bound
Just received this in the mail. It's really great. I'm a seminary student, and I was looking to buy a bible that had the Greek and Hebrew in the same book, so I wouldn't have to haul two books, PLUS an English translation everywhere I go. This one is cheaper than Biblia Sacra, and is more helpful to me than Biblia Sacra would have been.
The Hebrew text is the BHS, and the greek text, for the most part, follows the Novum Testamentum Graece (there are footnotes if there's a variant). The most helpful parts of this volume are:
1. Proper names in the Hebrew Bible are in lighter gray. No more endlessly flipping through the lexicon only to realize that it was a name the whole time.
2. Greek words used 30 times or less, and Hebrew words used 100 times or less are footnoted. This makes reading through the text easier and smoother.
It's great, and fairly inexpensive.
The Hebrew text is the BHS, and the greek text, for the most part, follows the Novum Testamentum Graece (there are footnotes if there's a variant). The most helpful parts of this volume are:
1. Proper names in the Hebrew Bible are in lighter gray. No more endlessly flipping through the lexicon only to realize that it was a name the whole time.
2. Greek words used 30 times or less, and Hebrew words used 100 times or less are footnoted. This makes reading through the text easier and smoother.
It's great, and fairly inexpensive.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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I have owned both of the separate components of this book, the Reader's Greek NT and the Reader's Hebrew OT. It is great to have them both "under one roof" now. The paper quality is good, the single-column setting is nice, and the maps are great. The footnoted definitions are both helpful and stimulating: helpful because they give you the lexical form and definition, stimulating because they don't parse the word for you.
The only problem with this book is its cover. "Fine-grain black European leather" sounds like something nice, but it's not. The cover is cheap, thin, and inferior to the duo-tone covers on the Reader's NT and OT.
Nevertheless, this is a great resource - highly recommended for pastors and seminarians.
The only problem with this book is its cover. "Fine-grain black European leather" sounds like something nice, but it's not. The cover is cheap, thin, and inferior to the duo-tone covers on the Reader's NT and OT.
Nevertheless, this is a great resource - highly recommended for pastors and seminarians.
65 of 75 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
A Critical Review of Zondervan's 'A Reader's Hebrew and Greek Bible'
April 17, 2010
By Gabriel Eddy
Format:Leather Bound
'A Reader's Hebrew and Greek Bible' (RHGB), published by Zondervan, combines the celebrated A Reader's Greek New Testament: 2nd Edition and A Reader's Hebrew Bible into a handsome single volume which vastly improves portability and ease of use. This edition, edited by A. P. Brown II and B. W. Smith (Hebrew Tanakh), and R. J. Goodrich and A. L. Lukaszewski (Greek New Testament), aesthetically features black, fine-grain European leather, crisp, manageable pages, and readily intelligible font on a clean interface.
The text of the Hebrew Tanakh ("Old Testament") is based on the Leningrad Codex (L). Regrettably, it contains no text-critical notes. However, at the bottom portion of each page, provided glosses are intended to aid the reader in ameliorating comprehensibility of the Hebrew phraseology. Understand that these are not necessarily complete lexical definitions, but merely glosses which suggest the particular sense(s) seemingly employed within a given context. The glosses, according to the book's introduction (pp. xviii-xviv), are based on The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HALOT), the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (BDB-HEL) and, in some cases, "alternative lexical sources." Additionally, the definition of some infrequently (100 times or less) occurring Hebrew terms are footnoted.
The Greek New Testament utilizes the Greek text *underlying* the TNIV. This text, highlighted in the book's introduction, has developed via two phases. Phase I: In the mid-1980's, Edward Goodrick and John Kohlenberger III compiled the Greek text underlying the New International Version (NIV). That text deviates from the UBS 3rd Edition (UBS3) wherever the NIV translators made differing textual-critical determinations. Phase II: That same text underwent revision as Gordon Fee reviewed and analyzed the critical text of the NIV during the 1990's, adjusting it according to textual-critical determinations made by the Today's New International Version (TNIV) committee. The final product became the Greek text underlying the TNIV. This Greek text was used in 'A Reader's Greek New Testament', and has been unalterably retained in this edition.
Conveniently, variations between this edition's critical Greek text and that of the UBS 4th Edition (UBS4) are footnoted in the textual apparatus, located collectively within a section also containing glosses for certain Greek terms. The definitions used for the Greek glosses are based on those found in Warren Trenchard's The Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament, and each was systematically crosschecked to ensure suitability for the given context. A brief perusal reveals that the textual apparatus contains not only the deviating UBS variants and some helpful glosses, but also some significant variant readings from other manuscripts. Painfully, however, the manuscript witnesses for each variant reading are not cited. Instead, the apparatus lazily asserts that "Some MSS add..." or "Earlier MSS read..." etc. Definitions of some infrequently (30 times or less) occurring Greek terms are footnoted. The final (and likely the most unexpendable) feature of the apparatus is the inclusion of Old Testament citations and parallels.
Overall, this Bible leaves much to be desired. One surprising shortcoming, especially given this book's premium price tag, is the suspect quality of the bookbinding. In comparison with the NIV Study Bible, Large Print [Large Print] (Leather Bound) which features rounded corners and a durable binding that gives a rather solid impression, the new RHGB, an even thicker tome, has a noticeably softer and thinner (i.e. cheaply produced) cover without rounded corners, and the leather in the corners already protrudes somewhat from inside the binding, thus heightening the potential risk of defective and short-term defunct binding. Therefore, if you're still planning to purchase a copy of the RHGB, prospective owner take note: handle with care.
Otherwise, this is an acceptable (albeit unexceptional) Zondervan publication for the average layperson, student, or aspiring scholar literate in both Hebrew and Greek who is comfortable with its critical apparatus, its questionable production quality, and its ambitious price tag. Overall, this product receives 3/5 stars.
The text of the Hebrew Tanakh ("Old Testament") is based on the Leningrad Codex (L). Regrettably, it contains no text-critical notes. However, at the bottom portion of each page, provided glosses are intended to aid the reader in ameliorating comprehensibility of the Hebrew phraseology. Understand that these are not necessarily complete lexical definitions, but merely glosses which suggest the particular sense(s) seemingly employed within a given context. The glosses, according to the book's introduction (pp. xviii-xviv), are based on The Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament (HALOT), the Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon (BDB-HEL) and, in some cases, "alternative lexical sources." Additionally, the definition of some infrequently (100 times or less) occurring Hebrew terms are footnoted.
The Greek New Testament utilizes the Greek text *underlying* the TNIV. This text, highlighted in the book's introduction, has developed via two phases. Phase I: In the mid-1980's, Edward Goodrick and John Kohlenberger III compiled the Greek text underlying the New International Version (NIV). That text deviates from the UBS 3rd Edition (UBS3) wherever the NIV translators made differing textual-critical determinations. Phase II: That same text underwent revision as Gordon Fee reviewed and analyzed the critical text of the NIV during the 1990's, adjusting it according to textual-critical determinations made by the Today's New International Version (TNIV) committee. The final product became the Greek text underlying the TNIV. This Greek text was used in 'A Reader's Greek New Testament', and has been unalterably retained in this edition.
Conveniently, variations between this edition's critical Greek text and that of the UBS 4th Edition (UBS4) are footnoted in the textual apparatus, located collectively within a section also containing glosses for certain Greek terms. The definitions used for the Greek glosses are based on those found in Warren Trenchard's The Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament, and each was systematically crosschecked to ensure suitability for the given context. A brief perusal reveals that the textual apparatus contains not only the deviating UBS variants and some helpful glosses, but also some significant variant readings from other manuscripts. Painfully, however, the manuscript witnesses for each variant reading are not cited. Instead, the apparatus lazily asserts that "Some MSS add..." or "Earlier MSS read..." etc. Definitions of some infrequently (30 times or less) occurring Greek terms are footnoted. The final (and likely the most unexpendable) feature of the apparatus is the inclusion of Old Testament citations and parallels.
Overall, this Bible leaves much to be desired. One surprising shortcoming, especially given this book's premium price tag, is the suspect quality of the bookbinding. In comparison with the NIV Study Bible, Large Print [Large Print] (Leather Bound) which features rounded corners and a durable binding that gives a rather solid impression, the new RHGB, an even thicker tome, has a noticeably softer and thinner (i.e. cheaply produced) cover without rounded corners, and the leather in the corners already protrudes somewhat from inside the binding, thus heightening the potential risk of defective and short-term defunct binding. Therefore, if you're still planning to purchase a copy of the RHGB, prospective owner take note: handle with care.
Otherwise, this is an acceptable (albeit unexceptional) Zondervan publication for the average layperson, student, or aspiring scholar literate in both Hebrew and Greek who is comfortable with its critical apparatus, its questionable production quality, and its ambitious price tag. Overall, this product receives 3/5 stars.
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Must reads!
These have contributed greatly to my spiritual growth! I recommend these to any serious student of scripture and to those who wnat to grow their souls.
Published 2 months ago by Brian
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A beautiful product!
I haven't used it roughly or every day, but it's a well-produced book. I have several other tools to use in reading the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, but I wanted to own this type... Read more
Published 3 months ago by drdon
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Superb
This is a great source for those who are studying the original languages. Great fonts, easily readable and great footnotes and lexicons for Greek and Hebrew. Well done!
Published 3 months ago by Robert B. Holden
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Great bible with very minor problems
It's huge and i was not expecting it to be huge, i will have a good workout when i carry to church it's that big for a bible but that is not a bad thing for me. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Teddy
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Very Good Hebrew and Greek Reader
This edition offers the reader both a Hebrew and Greek text in one volume. Greek is in the front reading left to right. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Dennis
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Fine quality tool
The binding is tight, the paper is thin but of good quality. The print is clear. The price was fair. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Robert M. Spicer
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Brings Joy and Ease to Reading Greek and Hebrew
I bought this volume a year ago to keep around the house. I normally keep my Greek and Hebrew texts at the office, but often found as I would be reading scripture or getting into... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Bror Erickson
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Excellent for study of languages
While not a text-critical document, it definite should help me work on my language skills (Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic). Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mert J Hershberger
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A fragile tool to be sure, but a valuable one
The "critical review" (no irony at all intended) given below, and the other comments given, are very helpful. That said, I am really looking forward to using this tool. Read more
Published 7 months ago by John Wheeler
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N.T. Wright would approve, at least in principle
I met N.T. Wright briefly in January at a worship symposium and asked him how to improve my Greek. He said, "Read the text, read the text, read the text. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Abram Kielsmeier-Jones
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