Comments on: Factoid that may interest only me

By: ElShaddai Edwards

ElShaddai Edwards — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:17:34 +0000

Jealous? Scofield? Uh, no, I don’t think so…

By: Peter M. Lopez

Peter M. Lopez — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:01:47 +0000

I just bought my second. It is a new black leather Oxford Scofield Study Bible with the 1917 notes that I found in a bargain bin at a local Christian bookstore. I love it! Jealous? Yeah, I thought so…

By: ElShaddai Edwards

ElShaddai Edwards — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 18:19:40 +0000

Well, I *do* mean to read it – just need to get over some mental hurdles and preconceptions!

I’m also still hoping that Cambridge will bring out the New Cambridge Paragraph edition in a smaller format – hopefully like their other Standard Text editions (NRSV, REB, KJV) – though I do admit that the current edition’s layout is exquisite and wouldn’t be much larger than my NASB wide margin…

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:06:49 +0000

The KJV was the first version I ever bought, I now own four copies and it is my version of choice.

By: Peter M. Lopez

Peter M. Lopez — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:13:43 +0000

Wow! That is amazing. A confession though, I just bought my first one about a year ago, so…

By: Peter Kirk

Peter Kirk — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 22:26:26 +0000

Well, I could say that I have never bought a copy of KJV, because I have never needed to. But then I think I did once buy an old copy for 50p, about $1, at a book sale. I’m not sure what happened to it.

By: ElShaddai Edwards

ElShaddai Edwards — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:53:19 +0000

Very cool, Peter. I had to qualify my factoid with “bought” as my wife and I recently received the compact KJV Bibles that my wife’s grandmother and great-grandmother used for confirmation classes and thereafter. I don’t dare try to use them on a regular basis!

I remember making a “childish” mark in my NASB that my dad raised his eyebrow about – I never made another mark in that Bible. The pages are well worn, but they’re clean…

By: Peter Kirk

Peter Kirk — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:43:44 +0000

I have two KJVs, on which I was given as a child and is heavily marked up in childish ways, and a nice little leather bound one which I inherited from my mother, it was her confirmation present in 1927.

By: ElShaddai Edwards

ElShaddai Edwards — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:21:23 +0000

@Nathan: I got my KJV for Easter back when I was a teenager.

I still have the burgundy bonded leather NASB Open Bible that I received for my 13th birthday. Served me for 20+ years and if the house were falling down, that would be the Bible I’d grab.

By: Nathan Stitt

Nathan Stitt — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:37:23 +0000

I got my KJV for Easter back when I was a teenager. It’s been read heavily and is pretty worn though, and has a bonded leather cover I think. I’ll probably replace it with a nice one from RL Allan’s whenever I have some extra money lying around.