a Kindle version exists
http://www.zondervan.com/niv-cultural-backgrounds-study-bible-hardcover
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Please make this! I think that Logos needs more study bible comparing with Olive Tree!
I agree that! We need more study bible! :)
This would be a great addition to Logos.
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I believe this study Bible does not release until the 23rd of August. I would also like to see this make it to Logos
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I ordered a print copy from CBD and received it earlier this week. I have studied it carefully. This is indeed one of the better study Bibles I have seen of late. Scholarly as it is, I would disagree with some of the content, but it is very good just the same. I consider this study Bible "better" because it provides more in-depth information in its notes than most other study Bibles I have, and at more verses. It would indeed be a good resource to have in Logos.
Neat! Thanks for the update. How does it compare to the ivp background commentaries?
I only ask as I remember someone mentioning that the author's of this set wrote the ivp one And I was curious if it is just packaged material
Still hoping for this to come to logos
Even Dr. Mantey gives a thumbs up. Hard to beat his recommendation.
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Mattillo: a Kindle version exists http://www.zondervan.com/niv-cultural-backgrounds-study-bible-hardcover
This is now available on PrePub!
www.logos.com/product/144554/
Just placed my order!
If I own the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary, does this offer anything new?
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected."- G.K. Chesterton
I am in!
Mattillo: Neat! Thanks for the update. How does it compare to the ivp background commentaries?
(Mk 6:45–52) The IVP Bible background commentary
6:45–52Walking on Water
6:45–48. The language of “passing by” may refer to how God’s glory “passed by” in the Old Testament (Ex 33:19; Job 9:11), which also described God as “treading” upon the waves (Job 9:8).
6:49. Although not all Jewish teachers sanctioned a belief in ghosts, it existed on the popular level and contradicted the standard Jewish (and New Testament) teaching that the righteous and wicked dead are separated at death in view of the coming resurrection.
6:50–52. “It is I” (NIV, NASB, KJV, etc.) is literally “I am.” Although the former is the primary meaning here, in this context it is possible that Jesus (or Mark) also intends to allude to a particular nuance of the latter meaning: “I am” may refer back to the God of the Old Testament (Ex 3:14; cf. comment on Mk 6:45–48).
Keener, C. S. (1993). The IVP Bible background commentary: New Testament (Mk 6:45–52). Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.
NIV Cultural Backgrounds - 6:45 Bethsaida. Also known as Julias, especially after AD 30, but the Gospels, which preserve early tradition, prefer its traditional local name.
6:47 middle of the lake. The lake is not large (13 miles [21 kilometers] long by 8 miles [13 kilometers] wide at its widest point), and the disciples were probably crossing at a much narrower point. Nevertheless, progress was delayed by contrary winds (v. 48).
6:48 about to pass by. This phrase could evoke God’s activity in Ex 33:22; 34:6 and applies to God also in Job 9:11, one of the same passages that refers to God treading on the sea (Job 9:8; God treads on the sea also in Ps 77:19; Hab 3:15). Together with Jesus’ “I am” statement (see v. 50; translated “It is I”) the narrative leaves no doubt as to Jesus’ divine identity (see note on v. 50).
6:49 ghost. Despite widespread Jewish teachings about heaven and the future resurrection, on a popular level many people believed in ghosts and certainly spirits more generally. Some people in antiquity believed that the souls of those who died unburied at sea wandered near the site of their demise.
6:50 It is I. The NIV’s translation is legitimate and fits the context, but the words in Greek here also mean “I am,” evoking Ex 3:14 and (especially in the Greek version) Isa 41:4; 43:10; 48:12; 51:12. Together with the context of Jesus treading on waters and being “about to pass by” (v. 48), this experience reveals Jesus’ deity (see note on v. 48).
NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible
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