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Pocket Guide To The Bible
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Item Description...
Overview
With a stealthy combo of entertainment and insight, Jason Boyett's Pocket Guide to the Bible fills the gaps in your religious education. It introduces you to the characters you must know, reveals the thrilling development of the biblical canon, and details the less-churchy parts of Scripture (hello, sex and violence!). Don't miss out on discovering
How God employs talking donkeys, mentally unstable prophets, and helpful prostitutes in his master plan
Which moral failures may result in an old-fashioned smiting
Why Catholic Bibles include books some Protestants refuse to recognize
Whether your New International Version of the Bible may in fact be demonic
Publishers Description
"Jason Boyett's Pocket Guides are smart and hilarious. And they're sneaky too: You don't realize how much you're learning because you're having so much fun." —AJ Jacobs, author, The Year of Living Biblically Americans consistently identify the Bible as the most influential book in history, but seriously: are you really reading it? Probably not. If all you know about the Bible are a few Psalms and the Christmas story, then you're missing out on a book that's wilder, weirder, and more entertaining than you ever imagined. With a stealthy combo of entertainment and insight, Jason Boyett's Pocket Guide to the Bible fills the gaps in your religious education. It introduces you to the characters you must know, reveals the thrilling development of the biblical canon, and details the less-churchy parts of Scripture (hello, sex and violence!). Don't miss out on discovering - How God employs talking donkeys, mentally unstable prophets, and helpful prostitutes in his master plan
Which moral failures may result in an old-fashioned smiting Why Catholic Bibles include books some Protestants refuse to recognize Whether your New International Version of the Bible may in fact be demonic With Pocket Guide to the Bible, you'll finally realize what's so good about the Good Book. |
Item Specifications...
Pages 208
Dimensions: Length: 6.94" Width: 5" Height: 0.59"
Weight: 0.36 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Jul 1, 2009
Publisher Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Co.
ISBN 0470373091
EAN 9780470373095
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Reviews - What do our customers think?
 | I'll try to keep this short.. Aug 8, 2009 |
I've just received my copy of this book, though its been out for awhile. Its about to be 'repackaged', so I thought it might be worth reviewing.
The Pocket Guide to the Bible is a sometimes-humourous book on The Bible, its contents, and history. I enjoyed the run-down of Bible history (The Brief History of Holy Writ) and the comparisons of various translations (Versions and Perversions) more than the rest of the book. The rest wasn't bad, the 'Biblicabulary' had some good bits. I thought the 'Not to be confused with' and 'Please use it in a sentence' sections of each entry was a great idea,even if the jokes didn't always land.
His factual information is sound. His doctrinal information is sound. There's nothing heretical or sacreligious being proposed.
However, some people may buy the book _not_ expecting to see the words 'apeshiznit' and 'beeyotch', or more to-the-point expecting _not_ to see them. These people may be disappointed...or pleasantly surprised. It's really going to depend on the individual's attitude. Humor is subjective. Some people will find this to be hilarious, some will not. Either way, it will give you something to think about, and may even teach you something. | | |  | Not Just for Pleasure Reading Aug 5, 2009 |
I purchased The Pocket Guide to the Bible to use with my four children as a homeschooling text -- a fun overview of the Bible for them. And we all loved it and learned a great deal from it without that often textbooky feel we often get with most Bible handbooks.
It's written with a sly wit, with a couple tongues-in-cheeks, yet it's chock-full of great information about each book of the Bible, each of the major characters, etc. My two older kids are ging through a Bible survey in their high school Sunday School class, and they volunteer most of the answers because of Jason's wise little book. They know their stuff, and they had fun learning it.
My only caveat in using this book with children is that some of the humor is definitely NOT child-friendly. As I read the book aloud, I had to skip sentences here and there that were not for children's (even teen's) ears. But the overall pace and fun of the book was worth the occasional blush and quick turning to the next page on my part.
We divided the book into readings for two days per week and finished exactly on the final week of school. My kids really enjoyed it, and I enjoyed knowing how much they've retained because of the humor. It's a great little book whether one knows the Bible well or not. | | |  | A grin Feb 22, 2008 |
This book gave me several smiles and grins as the author refers to himself as a third person(entity).
Very good purchase. I am sharing it with family now. | | | | An easy-to-use reference for lay readers to the canonical sacred text of Christianity Sep 13, 2006 |
Pocket Guide To The Bible: A Little Book About The Big Book is an easy-to-use reference for lay readers to the canonical sacred text of Christianity. Composed of a glossary of oft-unfamiliar words used in the Good Book, and alphabetical cast of characters, condensed summaries of the old and new testaments, a timeline, a selective survey of translations, miscellany, and a bibliography, Pocket Guide To The Bible is plain-spoken and easy to take in even as it accurately crystallizes key points. Enthusiastically recommended for novice biblical scholars or anyone seeking to quickly better acquaint themselves with the Good Book.
| | | | not perfect, but still pretty funny stuff Sep 4, 2006 |
| this book is a rather humorous little jaunt through the bible, but it has a tendency to be a bit dry here and there. it opens, promisingly enough, with a biblicabulary and cast, which cover all the major terms and folks of the bible with less than maximum reverence and, well, a bit of ribaldry. they and the miscellany "list ye be smitten" are the highlights, as they most illustrate the humor that can be drawn from the bible and its colorful cast of characters, which is what this whole book is really about. where it drags is in the telling of the tale. its description of "what happens" in the bible is where the author gets bogged down. although mr boyett throws in a few interesting tid-bits and humorous comments here and there, most of his retelling of the bible story sounds like a junior high smart-alec who isn't as funny as he is in his own mind. don't get me wrong, i enjoy this as a general rule, but mr boyett doesn't execute as well as he should, or as well as he did in his pocket guide to the apocalypse. as for bible teaching, there is nothing here that will do anything for anyone who has been reading the bible longer than a year, but his stuff is sound with only a few factual hiccups. but that's not why you should read the book. you should read the book because you appreciate the difference between irreverence and good-natured fun, and because, on the whole, it's pretty funny stuff. | | | Write your own review about Pocket Guide To The Bible
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