What was your first study bible?

[Yeshua1]

My first was “The People’s Study Bible” edited by Harold Lindsell. The Bible text is The Living Bible. I don’t know whether or not this is exactly the same as the Lindsell Study Bible. It was also published in the KJV. This was given to me as a graduation present. Sadly, it would be many years before I ever really put it to use.

I haven’t really looked at this one in about 20 years. I have no interest is reading The Living Bible, but this Study Bible does have some good helps. I’ve been thinking of delving into it again. The book intros and some of the notes were very helpful in rebutting the liberalism I had been taught in my home church and in college.


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Think that was mine! The intros and notes were really solid!

 

[Yeshua1]

The Scofield Reference Bible (1917, not 1967)

I had a 1967 one!

 

[Yeshua1]

From the selections I have read, it seems the notes are extended and more detailed in places. The font setting and size are also better IMO. Overall, the second edition seems to be very well done. Hopefully I will have a better answer for you when I finished going through it! I have not gotten through the NT yet. I use the Reformation Study Bible quite a bit too. The first edition I got in it was the New Geneva Study Bible in the NKJV.

I use mainly the esv SB and Esv Reformation, just wish the reformation bible had esv SB notes on water baptism and eschatology!

 

[George Antonios]

That's what I'm thinking and praying about getting. I've got a Thompson's Chain Reference Bible now. How do they compare to you?

Thompson is more focused on exactly that, chain references, with some interesting annexes at the end, whereas Scofield is a note-Bible. Thompson was amillennialist whereas Scofield was premillennial.
But if you're looking for the most doctrinally accurate Study Bible, I would recommend the Ruckman Reference Bible:

Bible Baptist Bookstore: Ruckman Reference Bible (more options available)

https://www.amazon.com/Ruckman-Refe...id=1592410011&sprefix=ruckman+,aps,283&sr=8-1

 

[George Antonios]

Dake study bible (Charismatic Scofield). I started out Pentecostal Dispensationalist. Rumor has it He wrote this bible while doing time as a child molester.

Rumour has it that David wrote some of the Psalms after having committed adultery and premeditated murder.

(For the record, I think the Charismatic movement is largely heretical, I just don't appreciate dragging a man's name through the mud just because I disagree with his doctrine)

 

[1689Dave]

Rumour has it that David wrote some of the Psalms after having committed adultery and premeditated murder.

(For the record, I think the Charismatic movement is largely heretical, I just don't appreciate dragging a man's name through the mud just because I disagree with his doctrine)

You know people by their fruits. If I thought he taught the truth, I would give him the same attention as David.

 

[Yeshua1]

Rumour has it that David wrote some of the Psalms after having committed adultery and premeditated murder.

(For the record, I think the Charismatic movement is largely heretical, I just don't appreciate dragging a man's name through the mud just because I disagree with his doctrine)

Even when His doctrines were demonic doctrines, that has been used as THE standard bile for the WoF and other aberrant groups?

 

[Yeshua1]

Thompson is more focused on exactly that, chain references, with some interesting annexes at the end, whereas Scofield is a note-Bible. Thompson was amillennialist whereas Scofield was premillennial.
But if you're looking for the most doctrinally accurate Study Bible, I would recommend the Ruckman Reference Bible:

Bible Baptist Bookstore: Ruckman Reference Bible (more options available)

https://www.amazon.com/Ruckman-Reference-Bible-Black-Cowhide/dp/1580269001/ref=sr_1_1?crid=THYYCLP087HH&dchild=1&keywords=ruckman+reference+bible&qid=1592410011&sprefix=ruckman+,aps,283&sr=8-1

That Bible rates right up there with the Dakes, avoid at all costs!

 

[George Antonios]

Even when His doctrines were demonic doctrines, that has been used as THE standard bile for the WoF and other aberrant groups?

Then oppose the doctrines. Because you can find men who were guilty of sexual sins, or were accused of sexual sins, in every doctrinal camp.

 

[Yeshua1]

Then oppose the doctrines. Because you can find men who were guilty of sexual sins, or were accused of sexual sins, in every doctrinal camp.

And oppose His Bible version!

 

[The Lamb Rescued Me]

My first study Bible was a NIV large print study Bible, which I still have and refer to from time to time.

 

[Deacon]

I was given a New Scofield Study Bible as a Senior in High School. It was my first Study Bible.

I picked up an Old Scofield Study Bible at a bookstore clearance sale about 15 years ago (if I remember correctly for only $5 or $10) it’s still in the box new.

I don’t generally use Study Bibles now, usually turning to a single book commentary.

Rob

 

[Yeshua1]

My first study Bible was a NIV large print study Bible, which I still have and refer to from time to time.

The Niv study bible, original edition?

 

[Yeshua1]

I was given a New Scofield Study Bible as a Senior in High School. It was my first Study Bible.

I picked up an Old Scofield Study Bible at a bookstore clearance sale about 15 years ago (if I remember correctly for only $5 or $10) it’s still in the box new.

I don’t generally use Study Bibles now, usually turning to a single book commentary.

Rob

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Now, THOSE are Baptist bibles!

 

[The Lamb Rescued Me]

The Niv study bible, original edition?

Hi Yeshua, yes the original edition.

 

[Yeshua1]

Hi Yeshua, yes the original edition.

My wife has the 1985 version of that, bought it for her used!

 

[Just_Ahead]

Oxford Annotated Bible, 1st edition, RSV, editors Herbert May and Bruce Metzger, 1962.
A college textbook for my first Bible course: Survey of the Old Testament.
That course also used Understanding the Old Testament, 2nd ed., Bernhard Anderson, Prentice Hall, 1966.

 

[Just_Ahead]

I was given a New Scofield Study Bible as a Senior in High School. It was my first Study Bible.

I picked up an Old Scofield Study Bible at a bookstore clearance sale about 15 years ago (if I remember correctly for only $5 or $10) it’s still in the box new.

I don’t generally use Study Bibles now, usually turning to a single book commentary.

Rob

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Rob,

The New Scofield Study Bible (your first Scofield) looks incredibly used in the photo.

 

[Deacon]

It was a well made Bible and I take care of my books.
The binding is still strong but despite continuous care (leather dressings and dye) there is some dry rot on the headcap and tail.


I do have quite a few bibles in my collection. Most of them picked up used for not much $.
Here are a few...



Rob

 

[Just_Ahead]

It was a well made Bible and I take care of my books.
The binding is still strong but despite continuous care (leather dressings and dye) there is some dry rot on the headcap and tail.
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I do have quite a few bibles in my collection. Most of them picked up used for not much $.
Here are a few...

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Rob

I like the variety in your Bibles -- from Criswell to Moffat -- quite eclectic.

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Now I ask this next question -- which really is a fiddling question -- Do you have some order or scheme in the way you place your Bibles on the shelves in your collection?

Such as

• chronological (i.e., publication date or acquisition date)
• theology (i.e., Baptist or other denomination)
• equivalence (formal, moderate, dynamic equivalence, or paraphrase)
• size (height or thickness -- space left on the shelf)
• spine (color or material used in board covering)
• or some other Rob idiosyncratic hodge-podge

I ask the fiddling question because I find myself frequently shuffling the Bibles on the shelves in my own collection.

Now if there was just one Bible in a collection -- then there would be no need to fiddle about.

Bob