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| Holy Bible: Contemporary English Version | 
 enlarge | Author: Abs
Publisher: American Bible Society
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  33 reviews
Sales Rank: 268709
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1354
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.3 x 1.7
ISBN: 1585160555
Dewey Decimal Number: 200
EAN: 9781585160556
ASIN: 1585160555
Publication Date: October 1, 2000
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| Customer Reviews:
 A version Not too literal, Not too free-wheeling January 21, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
As a Bible translator for an Asian tribe, I highly recommend this book. This version is neither as literal as NASB, KJV, NRSV, or even NIV, nor as free as LB or Message. I like CEV translation style which is clear and accurate.
 Yo, Bro...God's da bomb! December 15, 2006
6 out of 26 found this review helpful
Mmmmm...I really don't know how I feel about this particular version of the Bible...it is actually kind of weird...it really is...I know that it's trying to get more and more people to read it and understand it, but I really don't think this book does it...at least, not for me it didn't.
The only translation that really does it for me, is the Lamsa Bible. It is translated from the original Aramaic...which, by the way, is the language that Jesus actually spoke. Did you know that "Abba" actually means, "Good Daddy"...it also means "Bad 70s music..." just kidding...but yeah, when Jesus called God, Abba, he was basically saying, My Good Daddy provides me with everything I could want and need, which, of course, drove the scribes crazy and which would probably drive some "Christians" crazy if they really understood the Aramaic language.
Not that I do, mind you...I'm not an Aramaic Scholar by any stretch of the imagination, but I have studied books by Rocco Errico and his mentor, George Lamsa.
So, no, I can't say that I really recommend this particular version of the Bible. It doesn't jive well wit da soul and all dat...y'know, what I'm sayin'...
Me neither...
Great! November 7, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The book arrived very quickly and is a great, easy to read source of literature. I use this copy of the bible as an easy reference source when reading other literature books.
Contemporary English Version of the Bible November 5, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This edition of the Bible in the Contemporary English Version is good value, and has clear type with good legibility. This edition also includes the Apocrypha, giving it added value.
Colin Lunt
 When Will They Write The Sequel? November 3, 2006
7 out of 17 found this review helpful
Well,
The Bible as a whole was an okay read. Considering that James I of England had this thing made, and one must realize something: As an English monarch, he was so-so. As a religious text editor, he stank. (Note that Henry IV of France called James, "The wisest fool in Christendom").
So, on to James' Bible, The Old Testament: In this latest iteration of a holy text, God appears in various ways as a jealous tyrant ("Thou shalt have no gods before me"), a mean kid (ie. the trials of Job), a poor tourguide (leaving the Israelites to wander for forty years), and on occasion, a deity. Being that this book was made in post-Elizabethan England, everyone in the book --including God-- speaks in "thees" and "thous", which unfortunately have become the cornerstone words in too many of the bible-thumping quotes of Christian fundamenalist whackjobs today. The idea that perhaps God speaking without a single "thee" or "thou" in modern English almost seems impossible, and we have James to thank for that (well, him and that Charleton Heston movie).
God falls silent in The New Testament, and a free love pacifist hippie named Jesus takes over. Unfortunately, the pages with the years spanning Jesus' life from age 13 to age 30 are missing. Frankly, I blame James' editing on this, but then *nobody* seems to have found the missing pages on Jesus' teenage years and early manhood. Ah well; chalk that up to bad source material.
After the part where Jesus rises from the dead (note that this is one of the first recorded instances of zombieism existing outside of Haiti), The New Testament ends with his threatening to return one day. We can only hope he does this dressed in something else other than the loincloth and crown of thorns we usually see him in in crucifixion art-- plus, the laws regarding public nudity are pretty strict in my town.
After that, there are some letters, parables, songs, and a story about the end of the world (called Armageddon) that was written by a reclusive hermit named John of Patmos. And like all hermits, he was malnourished and subject to fits of halucinating. One particularly long halucination was recorded as "Revelations", and after reading it I pause to wonder if Mr. John of Patmos was on a bad acid trip.
All in all? If you have an afternoon to kill, try reading it. It's much more fun than The Book of Mormon, and had much better cover art than The Talmud.
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