Life Application Study Bible

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I’m quite impressed with the overall look and feel of the copies I have for review, and I think the study material is quite good. There are rare occasions when a literal translation will make zero sense to a modern English reader, and in that case, the translation attempts to be as close to the original as possible while still making sense to the reader.

Survey the big picture of each book through overviews, vital statistics, outlines, and timelines, and grasp difficult concepts using in-text maps, charts, and diagrams—all to help you do life God’s way, every day. With a fresh two-color interior design and meaningfully updated study notes and features, this Bible will help you understand God’s Word better than ever.In other words, instead of translating each word individually, they attempt to translate the original thoughts behind each word and phrase. Adherents of “dynamic equivalence” (and the more recent label “functional equivalence”) do not necessarily feel obliged to translate the actual words of the original. These include book introduction maps that tell the story of the places in the Bible book, and thumbnail maps in the notes that plot geographic movements in the Bible. Over 20,000 notes, adapted from the bestsellingNIV Zondervan Study Bible, draw on the knowledge of today’s leading experts to provide valuable commentary right where you need it. Where other study Bibles offer insight about the text, the Life Application Study Bible goes one step further and asks readers to consider how it applies to the rhythm of their daily lives.

They include traditional notes like most study Bibles that give readers details about the historical and literary context of the biblical text, but they also have notes about how the text applies to our lives (you can see examples of both of these types of notes in the photo below from the Gospel of Matthew). Whether you are preparing for future Bible studies or daily readings, this study Bible for men and women is the ideal resource for lifelong discipleship. In other words, instead of simply translating the words as they were originally written, an attempt is made to interpret the meaning of the original words and then let that interpretation guide the translation. If you just want some quick recommendations and don’t want to read the reasoning behind them, here is a table of good study Bibles to choose from. These types of study Bibles are primarily designed to help you understand the meaningof the text in each book of the Bible.Personally, I believe this is an inferior and unhelpful method of translation because it has the potential to introduce interpretationinto the translation. There are literally dozens of study Bibles available to choose from, and you can be sure that there is one that fits your particular needs and desires.