{"id":6992,"date":"2011-05-12T07:12:30","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T12:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=6992"},"modified":"2011-05-12T07:12:30","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T12:12:30","slug":"book-review-the-story-of-the-bible-by-larry-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2011\/20110512-6992.htm","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: “The Story of the Bible” by Larry Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the the first book<\/a> I agreed to review from a publisher turned out to be a dud (in my opinion, humble), I told myself that maybe I just wasn’t cut out for the “review copy” thing. I should go back to just reviewing the books I check out of the library. It’s much less pressure that way.<\/p>\n

Then I saw The Story of the Bible<\/i> from Thomas Nelson’s BookSneeze program–and saw that the foreword was by Ravi Zacharias.<\/p>\n

Surely if Ravi wrote the foreword, it’s got to be okay, I told myself. So I went ahead and requested it without reading another word.<\/p>\n

What a fortuitous impulse!<\/p>\n

The Story of the Bible<\/i> arrived outside my front door, I opened it up, and was immediately hooked.<\/p>\n

For the next couple of weeks, I never went anywhere without my copy.<\/p>\n

“You need to see what Thomas Nelson just sent me,” I’d say as I pulled it out of my tote to pass to friends, family, and strangers. (Lucky me, I carry a nice large tote that can hold the jumbo-sized coffee-table-style book.)<\/p>\n

“It’s the story of the writing and canonization and preservation and translation of the Bible.” I told them as they rifled through the pages.<\/p>\n

Then, lest they miss the most exciting part, I’d direct them to the vellum envelope pages found within every chapter. “Go ahead and take it out” I’d urge.<\/p>\n

Dutifully, they’d pull out the odd sized papers found in the various envelopes. <\/p>\n

One started reading the writing: <\/p>\n

Great Isaiah Scroll<\/b>
\nThe only complete Dead Sea Scroll is the Great Isaiah Scroll, discovered in 1947 by Muhammed Ahmed el-Hamed and pictured on page 25….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I could hear the quizzical expression in my friend’s voice as she read aloud. “Why on earth is Rebekah so excited about this?”<\/p>\n

“Turn it over,” I urged.<\/p>\n

And that’s when she discovered what I was so excited about. <\/p>\n

Each scrap of paper within the vellum envelopes is a life-size full-color replica of a Biblical text. <\/p>\n

A page from the Dead Sea Scrolls, pages from the Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus, Wycliff’s Bible and Gutenberg’s. The list goes on and on.<\/p>\n

It’s like a museum in one glossy paged volume.<\/p>\n

I can’t be more excited.<\/p>\n

The text itself is in well-written, engaging prose. I had no difficulty getting through the pages–or dipping in for a paragraph here and there in casual perusal (both of which I did.) <\/p>\n

The author writes with an evangelical bent and an obvious reverence for the Word of God. This is no dull historical story of how men have preserved a book. This is a living story of how God has spoken a book, preserved His words, and communicated His heart to the nations of the world throughout the centuries.<\/p>\n

This book is a definite keeper! <\/p>\n

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Rating:<\/b> 5 stars
\nCategory:<\/b>Christian history
\nSynopsis:<\/b>A museum in a book, telling the story (and showing the documents) of the writing, canonization, preservation, and translation of the Bible.
\nRecommendation:<\/b> 5 stars<\/p>\n

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For the sake of full disclosure, I received this book for free via the Book Sneeze blogger program<\/a> at Thomas Nelson. All views expressed in this post are my own. I received nothing for this review beyond the book I just reviewed (which is a reward of great worth, if I do say so myself!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After the the first book I agreed to review from a publisher turned out to be a dud (in my opinion, humble), I told myself that maybe I just wasn’t cut out for the “review copy” thing. I should go back to just reviewing the books I check out of the library. It’s much less … Read more Book Review: “The Story of the Bible” by Larry Stone<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[36],"tags":[49,158,247,549,670,1132],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}