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Conference lgp30::christian-perspective

Title:	Discussions from a Christian Perspective
Notice:	Prostitutes and tax collectors welcome!
Moderator:	CSC32::J_CHRISTIE

Created:	Mon Sep 17 1990
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1362
Total number of notes:	61362

526.0. "Inexpensive Bibles and Scripture Materials" by 29067::J_CHRISTIE (Keep on loving boldly!) Sun Sep 27 1992 02:58

	The least expensive source of Bibles and other Scripture materials that
I've ever found is the American Bible Society.

   "ABS sells its Scriptures at cost - without profit, to encourage the widest
    possible distribution and fulfill the mission givenit by the churches it
    serves."

	Most complete Bibles (paperbound) are priced about $3.00 each; for
hardcover, about $6.00 each.  New Testaments can be purchased for as little
as 75 cents; the individual gospels, 50 cents.  Some of the community of
readers here have received a copy of Luke which I ordered and gave away some
time back.

	ABS publishes materials in the following translations:

		Contemporary English Version
		Today's English Version
		King James Version
		New American Standard Version
		New Jerusalem Bible
		New King James Version
		Revised Standard Version
		New Revised Standard Version

Many of these are available in large print and on audio cassette tapes.

A catalogue may be requested by writing:

		American Bible Society
		PO Box 5656
		Grand Central Station, NY 10164-0851

I receive no compensation or benefit from this organization.

Peace,
Richard

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526.1		COVERT::COVERT	John R. Covert	`Sun Sep 27 1992 11:35`	14
	>Most complete bibles...hardcover...$6.00 >King James version... Do they have complete King James Version bibles? Most are missing fourteen books. My Oxford KJV, published in the sixties, had all of them, but complete KJVs are really hard to find nowadays. Oxford has just released a new complete edition, but it's in sixteenth century typeface and orthography. One with contemporary typeface and orthography would be preferable. /john
526.2		VIDSYS::PARENT	it's only a shell, mislabled	`Sun Sep 27 1992 18:07`	11
	The KJV reference version printed 1955 and published by Spencer press is among the most beautiful. It is unique in that it contains photographs of locations referenced in the holy lands and exquisite reproductions of veriuos painting, plates, maps and geogrpahical descriptions. I am fortunate to have access to one. Peace, Allison
526.3		SDSVAX::SWEENEY	Patrick Sweeney in New York	`Sun Sep 27 1992 18:50`	21
	One of the fortunate things of being a resident of New York City is that I can visit the American Bible Society in person at Broadway and West 61st Street between 9 and 5 M-F. There's a store there with Bibles for less than $2 and New Testaments for 50 cents. There are also Bibles there in many foreign languages and scriptural reference materials. The Bibles there with Apocrypha are: TEV, NJB, and NRSV. There's a reference library where I am especially fond of reading the facsimile versions of the pre-KJV versions of the English Bible such as Tyndale's. Regarding some other published Bibles: I don't believe I've seen a version of the NKJV with Apocrypha, the notes at the end of mine imply the work of the translators was completed with the publication of the NKJV according to the Protestant canon. The "1611 King James Version" that I have is Nelson 0-8407-00410-5 and is word-for-word from 1611 in a modern Roman typeface from a 1911 edition.
526.4		JURAN::VALENZA	Bat child escapes!	`Mon Sep 28 1992 12:12`	3
	Used bookstores can often be excellent sources of inexpensive Bibles. -- Mike
526.5		SOLVIT::MSMITH	So, what does it all mean?	`Mon Sep 28 1992 13:29`	4
	One can obtain a Bible at a VERY reasonable price when staying in a hotel room. :-) Mike
526.6	Great deals!	CSC32::KINSELLA	it's just a wheen o' blethers	`Tue Jan 05 1993 20:55`	14
	Last week I went to IBS (International Bible Society) in Colorado Springs out on Hwy. 83 about 3.5 miles east of Academy Boulevard. It's right across from the New Life Church and has 8 white pillars in front. The don't have a lot of stock, but we picked up an NIV with Giant print for $12.50. They had small Bibles for around $3.50. I think they only deal in NIV. They also have children Bibles and bibles in foreign lanaguages. It's only got about 3 narrow shelves of bibles and some books. They've also got a view videos and the bible on cassettes, CD, and for PCs. The drive is worth not paying bookstore prices if you'd like to pick up an NIV. Also there is bulk rates. Jill
526.7		JURAN::VALENZA	Cow patterned noter.	`Wed Jan 06 1993 00:01`	6
	Highway 83--isn't that the road that runs past MacKenzie-White on one side and McDonalds on the other? Sorry, even the slightest mention of Colorado makes me homesick. -- Mike
526.8	Rubbing it in a little ;^)	CSC32::KINSELLA	it's just a wheen o' blethers	`Wed Jan 06 1993 20:58`	9
	Yep, that's it. Right before the entrance to I-25. Close to the Air Force Academy. In full view of the front range with majesty Pike's Peak in all it's glory. Ah, mountain air. It does a body good. There, that ought to make you really homesick, Mikey. Jill
526.9		DEMING::VALENZA	Cow patterned noter.	`Thu Jan 07 1993 00:59`	3
	>There, that ought to make you really homesick, Mikey. Yup, that's what it did all right. Thanks a bunch, Jill. :-}
526.10		CSC32::J_CHRISTIE	Poverty kills	`Thu Apr 28 1994 18:58`	5
	For a free catalog of American Bible Society materials, call their 24-hour toll free number: 1-800-32 BIBLE