The Great Adventure Catholic Bible

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Detailed chartsgiving a visual overview of important characters, key events, maps, major covenants, and historical context. Large font, 26% larger than the original Great Adventure Catholic Bible, that's easy on the eyes and nearly 13pt.

The Bible with authentically Catholicexplanations of historical context, symbolism, and commonly challenged beliefs.Seven articles introduce and explain the major covenants of salvation history, showing God’s amazing plan for humanity. This Catholic Bible sold out in only one month when we launched it in ... and has been re-printed four times in a year! Color-coding for easy reference. Uses the popular Bible Timeline system that’s used by hundreds of thousands of Catholics to learn the Bible It is designed in the way that many of the Evangelical publishers do their Bibles that us Catholics have been wanting for years, and now we have our own edition written in this style… Yea!!! This translation is both easy to read and faithful to the literary tradition of English Bibles, keeping the translation choices used by most Christians for hundreds of years. It is superior in it's readability to the Challoner revision of the Douay–Rheims Bible from 1752 and is less "sterilized" than the New American Bible (NAB).

Twelve Timeline charts provide a visual overview of the Bible, including: important characters, Key Events, geography, major covenants, world rulers, and contemporary events in secular history. The layout of the biblical text is wonderfully readable; its teaching enhancements, which give Catholics needed help in grasping the grand story of salvation history, are superb; and even the maps and charts are visually stunning. The original number of copies of this work is unknown; some 40 are still in existence. There are perfect vellum copies in the U.S. Library of Congress, the French Bibliothèque Nationale, and the British Library. In the United States almost complete texts are in the Huntington, Morgan, New York Public, Harvard University, and Yale University libraries. CONCLUSION Jeff Cavins, author of the hugely popular Great Adventure Bible Study Program and The Bible Timeline® Learning System, created a narrative approach that presents the big picture of salvation history and shows how everything ties together. Seventy Key Event call-outs provide a brief description of the milestones in the biblical narrative.

This Bible is a part of a program by Ascension Presents. It's the Bible in a year program (forgive me if I'm wrong). Even if you don't use the use the program you still will get a lot of the bible. Everything about this Bible says "read me!" Hats off to Jeff Cavins and his team for pouring their gifts and talents into this fabulous new resource. This is not a book you'll want in your library; it's a book you'll want in your hands!" Articles to help you understand the overarching story and important covenants that tie the entire Bible together zipper pull: It looks cheap. Time will tell, but I'm worried it's going to fall off, it doesn't feel very sturdy. This isn't entierly fair, it hasn't fallen off yet, but I'm a little worried, but time will tell.