How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth

How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth

Biblical interpretation for both beginning and experienced Bible readers. Changes to the new third edition include: updated language, new foreword, improved diagrams, substantial rewriting of several chapters to make them more user-friendly, and updated list of recommended commentaries and resources.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Simple, yet in-depth
Great book that provides a great tool for how to get deeper into the Bible. It is easy to follow and fairly simple to see the points. They provide great examples from different passages with different translations. And using different examples on how to go through an exegesical study helps the reader to follow the process. Highly recommended.

3 Stars Simply some positives and potential negatives …
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth

by Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart

This review summarizes positives and potential negatives of this book.

Positives:

* describes the complications and difficulties of translation

* offers rules or general principles of 'proper' interpretation

* promotes the consideration of historical and cultural context

* examines the writing style, or genre, of each book and offers cautions against misinterpretation

* offers recommendations for commentaries for each Bible book

* offers recommendations for dictionaries, concordances and several Bible translations as study aids (For an additional study aid see: www.exhaustiveoutline.com)

Potential negatives:

* offers some particular viewpoints with which you may or may not agree

— that content found in Acts or the Epistles was meant for then and not today

— a less than positive view of the King James or New King James Bible

— that much prophecy in Revelation had been fulfilled

— that the law ended when John the Baptist began to preach (vs. Jesus came to fulfill the law)

— that baptism by immersion is not supported as normative, but that speaking in tongues is normative

— strong support for the controversial, gender-neutral, Today's New International Version of the Bible, considered heavily influenced by feminism

— opposition to new alternative Bible translation versions (e.g., English Standard Version) that are not influened by feminism

— a preference for the Dynamic Equivalence method of translation

* some other hermeneutics principles are not addressed

* one of the authors is a member of the Assemblies of God Church, which appears to show up in his style of hermeneutics

* flow of content is sometimes difficult, writing style is less than desired

5 Stars Awesome! Thank you
Thank you so much for a great transaction. The book is wonderful, just as described. It arrived in super speed! Thanks!

4 Stars Very helpful but a little dense
This book has a lot of information not only on how to read the Bible, but also on its historical context (exegesis) and how it can apply to us today (harmenuetics.) This book has so much though that to read this book for all its worth requires a dictionary and time. If you want to learn about the Bible as well as how to read and understand it and have the time to go through it, then this book will be a great buy for you.

1 Star Never Received!
I can't rate this because, I never received this item. Hence, the one star. This should really receive "no rating" at all.

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