KJV New Defenders Study Bible [Hardcover]

Thomas Nelson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 12, 2006

This study Bible provides a handbook for a solid defense of the accuracy, integrity, and inspiration of the Bible, a seven-day creation, and Jesus as God's incarnate son.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1824 pages
• Publisher: Thomas Nelson (February 12, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0529122170
• ISBN-13: 978-0529122179
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.7 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #420,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Scientist and Bible Scholar, March 4, 2006

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D's Sweet B "Fan of great literature." (Southern CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: KJV New Defenders Study Bible (Hardcover)

Dr. Henry Morris is a scientist of the first rank and a Bible scholar of the same. He would never say this about himself, however, which is another mark of this greatness. His humble yet exacting approach to the Bible and its claims is elucidating. I have been reading the first Defender's Study Bible through cover to cover since my wife got it for me and I am excited about receiving this new edition so I can do the same with it.

Time is precious and I can recommend no other study Bible more highly. If the Bible is true then it should be borne out by evidence and it is! Although the KJV is 16th-17th century English I consider this a benefit in that it helps me better understand the language of the seminal documents of our nation like the Declaration of Independence. The KJV is also very beautiful in its rendition.

If the New Defender's Study Bible is better than the first version it is a MUST have for your library.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Study Bible PERIOD, October 2, 2011

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fredtownward "The Analytical Mind; Have Brain... (Mocksville, North Carolina, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: KJV New Defenders Study Bible (Bonded Leather)

IMHO this is the best study Bible available in English and has been since it superseded the earlier edition and previous best study Bible The Defender's Study Bible. How can I make such a claim? Allow me to illustrate.

KJV: To start with it uses the standard King James Version as the basic text. There is a reason that the overwhelming majority of people who make accuracy of translation their highest priority choose the KJV: a disagreement over textual criticism: the methods used to arrive at the correct text from a collection of hand-written copies, including both scribal errors and (possibly) deliberate changes. Up through the KJV, the underlying principle was "majority rules", that is all things being equal, the reading that is the most common is the most likely to be correct. However, virtually all post-KJV translations have used a different underlying principle: "age before beauty", that is assuming that a handful of older by a century manuscripts rediscovered beginning in the 18th century contain the correct readings even though they represent only about 5% of the total and appear by internal evidence to all have been copies of copies descended from the same original source. The problem is that if this assumption is wrong (and there are excellent reasons for believing it to be wrong), all such versions are introducing more errors than they correct while after nearly 400 years the errors in the KJV have pretty much all been caught and either corrected or footnoted in modern editions. Since the total differences in the NT versions amount to no more than 5% and (arguably) change no major doctrines of Christianity, one might be tempted to dismiss this as Yet Another argument about the number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin, but conservatives point with some justification to the occasionally dishonest footnotes in some modern versions which falsely assert "majority rules" for what are in fact minority readings and call into question by enclosing within brackets text that there is no rational reason for questioning.

ANNOTATIONS: This still leaves a wall full of KJV study Bibles; what separates this one from the pack are the over 9,000 footnotes that, according to the Introduction, "explain the Bible's difficult passages, resolve its alleged contradictions, point out the evidences of its divine origin, confirm its historical accuracy, note its remarkable anticipations of modern science, demonstrate its fulfilled prophecies, and in general remove any doubts about its inerrancy, its authority, and its ability to meet every human need."

What makes them particularly useful is that they are printed directly below the text in question, putting the defense of so-called Biblical "mistakes" within easy reach of anyone looking them up. Of course no claims of divine inspiration are made for these works of man, but they do represent the culmination of many years of careful research.

Despite years of Bible study, I was frankly astonished by how much I learned from reading these notes, especially things present right in the text all along that I had somehow missed. For example, one of the minor but by no means insignificant claims of a Biblical mistake is in Gen 9:13-16 where God supposedly first puts the rainbow into the sky as a token of His promise never to destroy the Earth again with a flood. Well, this is OBVIOUS nonsense because, as we now know, the conditions for producing a rainbow occur quite frequently after a rain so that the only way this verse could possibly be true is if it had never rained before the Flood.

Funny how I had never really noticed Gen 2:5-6 before: "...for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth... But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground."

Other notes explain how this could have worked, based on a scientific explanation of what the "waters which were above the firmament" of Gen 1:7 were and what their effects would be and how the mechanism of the Flood would work, but the interesting thing to me is that if you assume that some ancient just made it all up, how did he know that it was necessary to claim that it had never rained prior to the Flood for the story to work? Which is more plausible to you? An unsung ancient Isaac Asimov? Or just some Bozo writing down what he observed without necessarily fully understanding it?

INTRODUCTIONS: In addition to the annotations each testament and each individual book of the Bible have introductions addressing more general questions. One of the most interesting to me was the introduction to Genesis. Liberal Bible scholars almost universally insist that Moses was not the actual author of Genesis, and this introduction agrees but not in the way that liberals mean it. Again the evidence was in the text in plain sight all along in the form of the recurring phrase "These are the generations of..." followed by a name. Parallels with the terminology of ancient Babylonian tablets indicate that these names are actually the signatures of the original writers as the tablets were being passed down to the next author, and whenever Genesis is referenced in the New Testament, Moses is NEVER claimed as the author, unlike the case with references to the other four books of the Pentateuch, which often claim Moses as the author. This makes sense because Genesis records alleged history long prior to Moses' lifetime while Moses was a direct participant in the events of the following books. So the text of Genesis itself claims it to be composed of the assembled writings of Adam, Noah, the three sons of Noah, Shem, Terah, Isaac, Jacob, and Esau, with the final section being based on information from "the sons of Jacob." And just as critics claim, there ARE two separate creation accounts in Genesis divided by Gen 2:4. The second is part of Adam's account while the first ends with the slightly different phrase, "These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created." Since the first section, Gen 1:1-2:4a, tells of events prior to the existence of any witness to record them, logically God Himself must either have written this section directly or specifically revealed it to Adam, and another alleged "mistake" is resolved.

APPENDICES: Finally there are almost a hundred pages of useful appendices, addressing specific topics. To me the most interesting were the "Global Processes Indicating Recent Creation", which details a large number of worldwide natural processes whose rates are currently known yet which cannot possibly be reconciled with a 4.6 billion year old earth, and the Chronology of the Patriarchs in Genesis, based on the lists in Gen 5 and 11, which reveals some astonishing overlaps:

Adam could have known all the pre-flood patriarchs except Noah and Shem.
Noah could have known all the pre-flood patriarchs except Adam and Seth.
Noah and Shem could have known Abraham.
Shem could have known Isaac and Jacob.

Note: This Bible was published in several different formats from hardback to genuine leather at several different prices so pick the one that fits your budget. About the only recommendation I'd make is to get a "thumbed" edition; having tried thumb indexes once, I'd never go back!

Note: At one time there was an advantage to purchasing direct from ICR because they would include a PC version on CDROM for free, but now that the complete Bible and Notes are available online at their website, they have apparently stopped the practice. After all if you can go on the Internet anytime you want to search it, why fill up your hard disk with it?

Note: One downside to all these annotations is that in many places, in Genesis and Revelation in particular, the notes take up more of the page than the Bible verses do. For study this causes no difficulties, but for reading along this WILL result in a lot more page flipping for you than for the rest of the congregation. It isn't quite, "In (flip) the (flip) beginning (flip) God..." but the first two pages contain Gen 1:1-2 and nothing else but notes!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good teaching from Genesis to Revelation, October 27, 2009

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Chester King "Chet King" (Port Royal, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: KJV New Defenders Study Bible (Hardcover)

The KJV New Defenders Study Bible is an excellent source of teaching on pertinent issues found in the Bible from the Book of Genesis to the Book of Revelation. Dr. Henry Morris has proved his scholarly skill in expounding the scriptures well and the notes in this Bible are full of information and facts that every believer (and doubters) need to defend their faith written in a style that is easy to understand and read. The cross-referencing and research that has been done both internally and from other sources is outstanding! The index and appendices contain faith building and exciting charts, graphs, and information relating to many subjects. The KJV New Defenders Study Bible has been my main Bible for 2 years now and later this year I plan to complete reading word for word from Genesis to Revelation both the text and Dr. Henry Morris' study notes. Because I am a Christian who follows the teachings of Menno Simons (i.e. Mennonite)I do not agree with all of the doctrines that Dr. Henry Morris does, but see that he has presented his notes in such a way that I do not feel my faith being threatened. His strongest point is Biblical 6-Day Young Earth Creationism, and I agree wholeheartedly with him there! Even if you do not chose to read through this entire work, it will prove to be an excellent source for study of the Word of God and provide you with a powerful cross-referencing source for you Bible Study Library!