1560 Geneva Bible [Hardcover]

William Whittingham; Thomas Gilbey; Anthony Sampson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1226 pages
• Publisher: Greyden Pr; 1 edition (August 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583290001
• ISBN-13: 978-1583290002
• Product Dimensions: 16.6 x 10.9 x 3.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,810,213 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Reproduction, March 16, 2000

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S. McIntyre (San Antonio, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1560 Geneva Bible (Hardcover)

To be short on words, yet provide useful content....this is a quality reproduction, and is a diamond among gems in my library.

17 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars stop and think for a moment:, February 5, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: 1560 Geneva Bible (Hardcover)

imagine this: someone laborously and painstakenly translates and handwrites the Bible. Imagine the detail and craftsmanship that went into that task. Imagine further the days and nights and time that passed before its product was finished. Look at the bigger picture and wonder about what the ramifications were for this project (both political and religious). Envision that this work was protected by both a stroke of luck and the blessing of fate to be preserved for several hundred years--every page intact--and delivered into the hands of time and technology to be reproduced via a high grade scanner (and other technological accomplices) so that its beauty could be mass produced and distributed at an economical rate....and so that other fools would have the audacity to rate it with a few stars (as IF they even knew what they were talking about).

24 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Is Shakespeare the issue?, August 23, 1999

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[e-mail] (San Bernardino, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 1560 Geneva Bible (Hardcover)

I wonder at my colleagues in their discussion about Shakespeare's use of the Geneva Bible. Is that really the issue, and (to refer to my friend's observation that he does not "endorse" this version) does it really matter whether we embrace, endorse or otherwise subscribe to either the translation or the accompanying notes? This is a venture of historical proportions, the value of which is gauged, not in terms of endorsement, but in the availability of such a significant piece of Biblical history (even if the publisher's price is about twice what it should be).

For comparative purposes in drawing doctrinal conclusions, the Geneva Bible is of only cursory value (most of us wouldn't change a doctrinal position anyway; not even if Jesus Himself "endorsed" 1560. That is evident in that we have no intention of changing despite the revelational clarity of the hundreds of other translations. Why should 1560 be any different?).

As a publishing feat, it is significant. As a tool for research, it is invaluable. As another example of the profound processes by which Divine Providence vouched safe His Word to posterity, it is nothing short of remarkable.

Buy it if you can...but don't denigrate its place in the grand scheme of things.