Stuart Douglas,Gordon D. Fee

How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth

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Understanding the Bible isn’t for the few, the gifted, the scholarly. The Bible is accessible. It’s meant to be read and comprehended by everyone from armchair readers to seminary students. A few essential insights into the Bible can clear up a lot of misconceptions and help you grasp the meaning of Scripture and its application to your twenty-first-century life.
More than three quarters of a million people have turned to How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth to inform their reading of the Bible. This fourth edition features revisions that keep pace with current scholarship, resources, and culture. Changes include:
Updated language for better readabilityScripture references now appear only in brackets at the end of a sentence or paragraph, helping you read the Bible as you would read any book—without the numbersA new authors’ prefaceRedesigned and updated diagramsUpdated list of recommended commentaries and resourcesCovering everything from translational concerns to different genres of biblical writing, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth is used all around the world. In clear, simple language, it helps you accurately understand the different parts of the Bible—their meaning for ancient audiences and their implications for you today—so you can uncover the inexhaustible worth that is in God’s Word.
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411 printed pages
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
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Quotes

  • Kimberly Myershas quoted8 years ago
    The points of reference are only those parts of the story that draw the hearer into it, parts with which one is to identify in some way as the story proceeds. The point of the story is to be found in the intended response.
  • Kimberly Myershas quoted8 years ago
    the context Jesus has been invited to dinner by a Pharisee named Simon. But the invitation was not to be considered as being “in honor of a visiting famous rabbi.” The failure to offer Jesus even the common hospitality of the day was surely intended as something of a put-down.
  • Kimberly Myershas quoted8 years ago
    knowledge of the points of reference, which in turn caused them to recognize the unexpected turn in the story.

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