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| Holy Bible: Contemporary English Version | 
 enlarge | Author: Abs
Publisher: American Bible Society
Category: Book
List Price: $4.99
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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:
 Contemporary English Bible: low cost edition October 25, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
My comments are not on the CEV translation, but rather on this particular edition. Among all low cost editions of the whole Bible (Protestant canon), this one is outstanding in three respects:
1) it has the most extensive annotations (footnotes, introductions and outlines for each book of the Bible, and study helps) of any. They are not as extensive as many full-fledged study Bibles, of course, but it is a fraction of the price.
2) these annotations appear to have been designed to be solely descriptive, not reflecting any particular theological or scholarly bias. Thus, this edition can be used by persons with quite a wide range of theological orientations.
3) it has the largest print size. (Many low cost editions have rather small print.)
 Not Suitable for Children October 23, 2006
6 out of 22 found this review helpful
The problem is the central character, who appears to be a capricious supernatural monster with unchecked power to tyrannize and confuse all of the supporting mortal characters. The standard of morality portrayed in this book, especially the first half, would shock the Marquis de Sade, the Comte de Lautreamont, William Burroughs, or Henry Miller. Child abuse, polygamy, disfunctional familial deceit, jealousy, revenge, ethnic cleansing, racial chauvinism... you name it, all described without any hint of moral repugnance. The second or newer half also revels in anti-family rhetoric; the principal character repeatedly demands that his colleagues abandon wives and children in order to serve his purposes.
Holy Bible: King James Version August 28, 2006
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
The bible was clean and neat with the typical
vellum like pages.
No complaints.
Easily to understand and accurate. March 1, 2006
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I have a LOT of different versions of the Bible which I use in my ministry work, and am always looking for modern English versions which I can unreservedly recommend to those that have problems with the King James Version. MANY of the modern translations are not worth reading, as they have this agenda or that denomination or some other viewpoint which they promote. The CEV is very readable, and has no such bias that I have found yet. I still recommend the KJV as the closest to the original language, but if you want a Bible that is easy to understand and quite accurate, this is it!
Great for teen Bible study November 22, 2005
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought 10 copies of this Bible for a teen Bible study I'm doing with 7th-12th graders, most of whom have no knowledge of the Bible at all, other than what they learned from Veggie Tales! The translation is easy to understand and non-intimidating. We always stop at an exciting point in a story, and some of them are starting to read alone at home to see how the story ends. The extremely reasonable price made it easy for me to buy several of them, and because we all have the exact same Bible (not just the same translation), we can all turn to the same page until they become more familiar with the layout of the Bible. I'm ordering 5 more!
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