Your detailed reviews are really helpful now that many bookstores have closed. My beloved Christian bookstore closed years ago. (Even pre-Covid.) I took it for granted that I could always just hop on the train/bus and go see / compare so many different editions and styles and print sizes of Bibles. Obviously, nothing is as good as seeing something in person. But even online, having all these details about the print size and layout is really helpful.
@@RGrantJones The NKJV is a tricky translation for me. On the one hand, I like how it sounds similar to the KJV. On the other hand, I'm not such a fan of its textual apparatus because it mostly uses the TR and not NA-27 or NA-28 as the more modern translations like the ESV and NRSV do.
@@bos567564 - I don't mind greatly mind the TR readings, but I've always thought they should have used the Hodges and Farstad Majority Text instead. I, too, like the textual footnotes; I just wish they were more comprehensive. The problems I've had with the NKJV are (1) the use of capitals for pronouns for deity, and (2) the fact that it's not that easy to find to find editions with the words of Christ in black. But I've gradually gotten used to (1) over the years, using the NKJV and the NASB/LSB. I think the NKJV is a good, literal Masoretic/TR based translation. I wish we had something similar with the OT based on the LXX.
Thank you for this awesome video, which provides such a compehensive look into this study bible. I got myself a ESV study bible for christmas and now I'm about to add this NKJV study bible to my library.
Dear brother, thank you so much for another excellent review - thorough, detailed and careful. Always a joy and a pleasure to watch. I address you as brother as not sure what the R stands for or how you prefer to be addressed. We used to have Borders here in the UK too and I also miss them... my local one at the time had a nice coffee shop upstairs with books on the ground floor and upstairs, and CDs and DVDs in the basement. Needless to say, I could happily get lost in there for hour upon hour.
Tony - thank you for the encouraging comment! Feel free to call me Grant; I don't like my first name. The local Borders you described sounds very much like the ones that used to be near me.
Really like this bible and the features just can't afford a new bible at this time, fixed incomes sick and would be a wonderful resource as a new minister, alas.
I have owned this Bible for a while - it is one I am aiming to delve more into over time. Excellent review and talk through as always and makes for good Sunday evening viewing ) Thank you
@@RGrantJones Just to let you know that your video’s are being watched and appreciated. 👍 I found it strange that the designers and publishers use a teal text highlight throughout the bible, but did not compliment the highlight with a matching teal for the coloured charts. The blue charts looked more like an afterthought than a planned or integrated inclusion to the body text. I am fussy with my design. But great overview none the less. At the moment I am going over the Gospels of Marcion, Nicodenus and Infancy Gospel of James… Planning to compare where there are match ups with the Synoptic Gospels… the mind is always going when not at work.
One thing I've noted with the NKJV translation footnotes is that in the text they are all labelled with a superscript 1 no matter how many footnotes are on the page, they all have a 1 beside them. I wish they would change this. I had this Bible once but it was the mono colour one and I gave it away because the font size was way too small for me to read. I'm hoping for an NKJV with only the full set of translation footnotes and no references, but I think that will ever as Thomas Nelson seem to really love cross references, so they are present in almost every Bible they make.
If you have time one day, you should really do a video on the dark blue, rsv2ce - large print leather bible by ignatius press, really beautiful product!
Thanks for the question, Eric. That's "Lord Jesus, Think on Me." I used a program called MuseScore, which allows you to type in the notes, select instruments, and output an mp3 file.
nice bible, still not a fan of the comfort print, guess to mostly reading the KJV i perfect the old type set, thanks for a full review always full of information no other reviewer does.God Bless
Very thorough review. I have used the nkjv study Bible since 1997(?), I have bought the full color in bonded leather. I do wish I had gotten the brown cowhide. Nevertheless, your review does provide the consumer with a incredible amount of information. If one thing I would change is to stop putting references on the bottom of page. But, this is by far a better Bible than the ones sold the last 20 years.
This is my main study Bible my only problem is the text is to small but it is excellent study bible have used it for last 20 yrs when first version came out with some great glossy pages on church history good job as always
That's the great thing about being a Catholic. We don't need a study bible. We don't even need a bible. The priests tell us what to think. We don't need to think for ourselves. The Catholic Church is always right. Everyone else is wrong. It's so simple. I cannot understand why everyone isn't a Catholic or maybe a Muslim. The Muslim approach is similar. Do what you're told and you'll go to heaven. Don't and you won't. What's not to like?
I wasn't aware that Metzger was involved in this study Bible (especially since the NKJV was basically Thomas Nelson's apology for supporting the RSV). Does the volume identify where he was involved? It's quite a departure from his New Oxford Annotated Bible.
it is an allianceist or allist dispensation. Arminian or Reformed? I could translate it into Brazilian Portuguese. I live in Brazil and would register a work like this in my language.
25:52 - I have a question, Grant. I noticed that Study Bibles differ as to when Jesus died and resurrected (the ESV Study Bible takes the 33 A.D. approach for instance), so I'm curious which date you think is more likely? 30 A.D. or 33 A.D. I'm inclined to go with 33 A.D. myself. The article on the date of the crucifixion in the ESV Study Bible makes a compelling case for 33 A.D.
Thanks for commenting, eclipsesonic! That's an excellent question, but I haven't looked into that issue in recent years. Perhaps that would be a good poll question.
@@eclipsesonic - what years would you like to see as options, in addition to 30 and 33? We could list as many as four, or we could list just those two and add a 'some other response' option.
@@RGrantJones Yeah, perhaps have two options of 30 A.D. and 33 A.D. as these are the two dates you usually see, or you could do A.D. 30, 31, 32 and 33, as those are four options. It's up to you.
Thanks for another fine review, Grant. I just finished a NKJV read through. I have to say I was disappointed. I had assumed, due to its name, that it was going to be an update of the KJV, primarily replacing dead words and "false friends," while maintaining the majesty of the KJV. In my opinion, it is not a "new" KJV, but rather a new TR version. I also do not like the subjective caps for deity. I will not be using it. Now for a question, if you don't mind. I very much like the '73 and '77 NASB, but the ones I have are old and cheap. I bought the AMG '77 reprint, but the font is much too big and the volume is unwieldly. So, my question: How do you think the '95 NASB compares with the editions from the '70s. I really feel like the NASB and/or original RSV would be my favorite. Thanks for reading this lengthy post, dear brother.
The '95 modernized the archaic language the earlier editions had retained, but it also made changes designed (I think) to improve readability, that were out of keeping with the spirit of the earlier editions. For instance, the earlier NASB editions would place proper names in italics to let the reader know the translators were making an inference from the context, or the would add a "Lit." footnote to inform the reader of the change. The '95 made those changes without italics or annotations. It also eliminated many of the introductory conjunctions, just to smooth out the English. But the changes aren't radical.
@@RGrantJones If I may...I noticed in a comment below that you said, if I understand correctly, that the LSB is more like the old NASB than the '95 NASB. Did I understand correctly? I'm not a JM fan, but.... Thanks!
@@kirbysmith4135 - Yes. It doesn't include the archaic language, of course, but it notes exceptions to 'literalness' the way the '77 and earlier editions did. And it restores many of the introductory conjunctions that the '95 edition removed.
@@RGrantJones Thanks. I actually like the introductory conjunctions as well as the "lit." notes. Maybe I can get used to YaHWeH, or however they do it.
I haven't seen the KJV edition, so I can't answer with confidence. But I imagine that, since they're from the same publisher, they're very similar. Thanks for the question!
@@RGrantJones thanks. Your reply is actually quite encouraging. It makes me feel quite edgy that the gold stamps fade. But it seems with your reply makes me realize it is but natural. So I will let it stay as is. Again, thank you so much.
