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John The Baptist In-Depth, a closer look

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I am leaving a review to help others not waste money buying this book. I am in my mid-50's and have been in ministry most of my adult life. I am currently in seminary where I have about a 98+% average.

First the positive: It has a nice cover. That's it.

You could say the book is 88 pages but, if it were not double spaced (or 1.5 spaced) it might be 45-55 pages. Additionally, if you took out all the passages of scripture that are quoted you might be down to 35 pages. There are biblical passages strung together that run for pages. This is very poor writing and a cut and paste job to fill space. If I had an undergraduate student (let alone a seminarian) hand in a paper like this book he would get a very poor grade. At best this could be a 20 or 30 page booklet that is superficial and poorly written.

As to the content. In the first chapter we begin to find wrong references listed (makes a point and gives a passage but the passage does not make that point). He states Matthew but it should be Luke. The author quotes Daniel 9:24 and begins to make bold statements. They are wrong because he says "holy" refers to only one of two PEOPLE (Jesus or God the father). The NIV, ESV, NASB, NRSV,... all translate the passage "most holy place." NOT person. This is all in the first few pages. I could go on but the book is not worth the effort.

The authors comments and insights (if you call them that) are shallow at best and wrong or misleading at worse. There are many good books on John the Baptist out there. Many on Amazon. This is not one of them.