The NKJV Chronological Study Bible

[@RGrantJones]

This Bible is available for purchase here: www.christianbook.com/nkjv-chronological-study-bible-leather-black/9780785239550/pd/239550 and here www.amazon.com/Chronological-Study-Bible-Leathersoft-Comfort/dp/0785239553 . The companion unboxing video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGOzoKp5r5qea7c .

[@mendyhand3895]

Going to Israel Nov 2023. Just received this Bible. I just love the vintage look to this Bible. Font is big enough for my 56 year old eyes. Very readable. Great “transition” notes and illustrations throughout. Thanks for showing the dates in the Cambridge. I have that as well, so I’ll check that out for comparison. Thanks again Grant. 👍🙏🏻

[@RGrantJones]

Thanks for commenting, mendy!

[@livinright1]

I feel you really provided a wonderful overview of this Study Bible! I have never owned a chronological bible, but I just purchased this exact version after watching your video. TYVM for such a thorough review, blessings~Lisa

[@aaronmueller5802]

This is an interesting idea, but I think it is really held back by the lack of deuterocannonical books. I mean, if they're going to have a whole section on the period between the testaments, why not include at least 1 Maccabees? Even if they don't believe it to be scripture, it's an important historical document that helps explain a lot of the changes in the period between Malachi and Matthew. On a similar note, it's a shame the NKJV doesn't have an option with the apocryphal like the old King James did. Anyway, thanks for the great video, and a late Merry Christmas.

[@danivuk2036]

Agreed

[@RGrantJones]

Merry Christmas, Aaron! I definitely agree with you regarding the Deuterocanonical material.

[@sergiuskovalski444]

@@RGrantJones Hello brothers Grant and Aaron! But Jesus has never celebrated his own birthday or Pagan☝️ Christmas... Repent brothers, repent. "Now it is high time to awake out of sleep" (Romans 13:11).

[@SirChristoferus]

It certainly would be quite nice to have a chronological edition that includes the deuterocanonicals, especially in the NRSV with its expanded deuterocanonical section.

[@aaronmueller5802]

@@sergiuskovalski444 Christmas is not pagan, nor is it primarily based on any pagan holiday. Jesus also never used emojies, so...

[@gtgodbear6320]

That's one I would consider getting. I wish someone would make a KJV with capitalize deity. Jesus's word in bold black w/red quotation marks. A separate book study notes w/blanks for personal notes.

[@Ambrose_op]

Congratulations on the greatly increased subscriber count (I remember the pre-1K R. Grant Jones days ;) ) and for publishers sending you Bibles for review, Dr. Jones. Both are well-deserved, as your channel is, in my humble opinion, the best Bible-review channel on KZbin. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family, sir.

[@RGrantJones]

Thanks very much for those kind words, Parker! The channel growth is remarkable (and completely unexpected). Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours as well!

[@scripturequest]

I'm torn on whether to get this because it has Old Earth writers behind it, but it does look good. I'm working on trying to rearrange my Word version of the KJV to be more chronological in terms of book order and this might help.

[@fumastertoo]

Another excellent review, and this definitely looks like an interesting Bible. I've never had a Chronological Bible before and might have to get one second hand just to see what kind of info I can glean from it. Have a blessed day brother!

[@RGrantJones]

Thanks very much for the kind comment, ThyMasterToo!

[@jonny3874]

Hi Grant, please can you review the Crossway ESV New Testament with Psalms & Proverbs that you feature in your NJKV Flipback New Testament video? I am considering paying a hefty price for this out of print edition but there are actually zero reviews I can find, not just on KZbin but on all the internet. It would be greatly appreciated if you can help!

[@RGrantJones]

Jonny - if you don't mind a relatively quick video, without the detailed measurements (e.g., line and word counts), I could post one in the very near future. The key points I would make are: The paper is decently opaque with a rough surface, so no sheen. The font is in the 6.5 to 7 pt range. It's tiny but printed well - nice and dark. The text block is sewn. Paper paste-down. No maps, concordance, ribbon marker. Black and white head and tail bands. Brief book intros. My copy was printed in 2010 with the 2007 ESV text. I think the cover is imitation leather. After reading that, if you're still interested in it and would like me to post a video, let me know.

[@MrGameo20]

Does this study bible not have verse-by-verse exegesis as you'd see in more standard study bibles?

[@RGrantJones]

Thanks for the question, OzTruth! It does not present verse-by-verse exegesis.

[@lada100]

Thank you for this nice (albeit slightly delayed ☺) Christmas present. I always enjoy your content. I am really looking forward to the full LSB review. If you happen to have the CSb Chronological Bible it might be interesting to compare them, i.e. whether their chronological orders are similar/identical/very different.

[@RGrantJones]

Thanks for commenting, Láďa! This is the only chronological Bible I own, but if I come across a CSB Chronological Bible, a comparison is definitely in order. I didn't dwell much on the editors' decisions regarding the arrangement of material, since it seems like educated guesswork to me. Certainly what they've done is closer to the actual temporal order of events and writings that the usual arrangement. Merry Christmas!

[@larrym.johnson9219]

Blessed Christmas brother thanks for your review.

[@RGrantJones]

Thanks very much for commenting, brother, and Merry Christmas!

[@sergiuskovalski444]

Hello brothers Larrym and Grant! But Jesus has never celebrated his own birthday or Pagan☝️ Christmas... Repent brothers, repent. "Now it is high time to awake out of sleep" (Romans 13:11).

[@RGrantJones]

@@sergiuskovalski444 - thank you for your concern, brother!

[@sergiuskovalski444]

@@RGrantJones Discard all evil and bad things, weakness and compromises...

[@enochniranjan5481]

Could you please share the Chronological order index photo if possible? Please suggest or recommend the best interlinear Bible Hebrew and Greek to English with a formal english versions.

[@RGrantJones]

Enoch - I'm not sure what you mean by the chronological order index. If you point me to the time in the video where it appeared, I could post a photo to the channel's "Community" page. I know Hebrew and Greek to English interlinears are available, but I haven't used one, so I don't have a recommendation there.

[@rachelkarslake7787]

The Bible is very interesting. I would like to know your opinion of the arrangement and the overall experience, after you have read it through. I do have a couple related questions: How have the editors handled repeated material/perspectives? Do they include it all, or do they make a choice and include one version? Thank you for the review!

[@RGrantJones]

Thanks for the questions, Rachel! It appears to include all the material. I just checked the story of the Syrophoenician woman, and Mt 15.21-31 is followed by Mk 7.24-37. Both accounts of Josiah are present as well (2 King 23.1-25; 2 Chr 34-35.19).

[@aharon77]

Thanks for the review brother. I'd be interested to hear where you would place this within your favourite study bibles. Peace be with you 🕊️

[@RGrantJones]

Thanks for commenting, Aaron! In response to your question, I've had so little experience with it that it's much too early to say.

[@aharon77]

Thanks for the quick response brother. That's understandable. 🕊️

[@MAMoreno]

I find the idea of a chronological Bible interesting, but I find myself distrusting the accuracy of the results. I appreciate that the introduction to this study Bible acknowledges that the editors arranged the texts according to when they are ostensibly set without regard to when they were actually written, but the obvious downside to that approach is that it doesn't necessarily depict the Israelite faith as it actually developed. If the superscriptions in the Psalms are unreliable, for instance, then the placement of certain Psalms in the text of 2 Samuel is potentially intrusive and misleading. (Then again, could you imagine a Mainline Protestant chronological Bible that separates the purported JE source in Genesis from the later P source?)

[@MinisterRedPill]

There is no such thing as a P source or J source. These fallacies were created by German atheists.

[@aaronmueller5802]

@@MinisterRedPill I also don't believe in the jepd theory, but that's not a fallacy. Not every wrong idea is a fallacy.

[@lada100]

I am no expert since I passed my final Old Testament exams I would have two points. When it comes different sources, it is a huge mess. Check, for example, Zenger and his scheme and I have seen some way more complex ones with dozens of sources. Nobody really knows when particular OT books were written. This is not a place for long discussions but a single example. Let us suppose you wrote a book in 1600s and you used the word "admire." My job today is to make a copy of your book and since I want to make it easily understandable to people today I would replace your word with "marvel" or "wonder." My copy gets copied and survives. 2 thousands years from now a scholar comes and says that you book is by no means from 1600s because had it been so you would have used "admire" and not "wonder." Now, we have almost no idea about the history of the OT text for centuries. We don`t know for sure what their vocabulary was in different centuries (we don`t even know how they pronounced words). A similar cathegory to the above are, for example, Persian words. Again, we do not know whether they were used originally (which might say something) or only used to replace some obsolete words. It`s good to remember that they did not have any Merriam-Webster to find ten different meanings of a rowd, including those archais or obsolete.

[@zachtbh]

Speaking of chronological, I wonder if you'll do a review on the new Cambridge family chronicle kjv bible by any chance?

[@lada100]

Is it also a chronological Bible? I have read only CSB Chronological Bible so far.

[@zachtbh]

@@lada100 no, it's not. It's just that both chronological and chronicle shares the same root word, that reminded me of that bible.

[@RGrantJones]

Thanks for commenting, zach tbh! To answer your question - no, probably not. But if Cambridge decides they'd like me to review it and ships me a copy ...

[@zachtbh]

@@RGrantJones thanks for replying! I get it. It's actually quite pricey. But I asked because I think you're the only one who do an in depth review. 😁

[@edwardgraham9443]

This is well put together. This is a specialty Bible and probably won't be for everyone. Nevertheless, it's a good Bible to have as well as an Archaeology Study Bible. It might be a little difficult to navigate, but seeing it's a specialty Bible that is okay as it's unlikely to be someone's everyday Bible. Very interesting Bible though. For a 36 to 40 GSM paper Bible probably, there seems to be some ghosting. From watching the video, had you not said the chapter numbers were red, I would not have know. It seemed all black to me. Maybe it's because I have some difficulty with red letters. This is nonetheless a very good Bible to have in one's library. I'm appreciating single column Bibles more each day. I've long ditched verse-by-verse for paragraph settings as context is always king and somehow paragraphs helps a lot better with reading in context than in isolation which has caused many erroneous doctrines to be birthed. Since the NKJV is normally paragraph setting and I've been using it most of my life up to this year when I transitioned to the ESV, which also is a paragraph setting, I appreciate this layout much more. Now the single column is growing on me to the point that I only read from it nowadays. It makes longer periods of reading easier and I can set my own pace as I read along. Navigation isn't a problem for me especially if you have larger and embolden verse numbers (I'm hoping to get my hands on the ESV Preaching Bible paragraph version). Great review of what looks a beautiful Bible and one that should be added to one's library. By the way, what make and model pencil is that you use in the video? I'm looking for a good mechanical pencil to do my writings in my Bible as for me it's not permanent but can be erased if mistakes are made or if one comes into greater understanding of the particular passage. Plus since the graphite lead won't fade either, it will outlast me even if I live out the normal time that the Bible give which is over 30 years from now.

[@RGrantJones]

Thanks for commenting, Edward! The red ink used for headings and chapter numbers is very dark. If the words of Christ in red letter editions were always that dark and uniform, I wouldn't complain about them. The pencil is a Pentel GraphGear 500 PG523. It takes 0.3 mm lead.

[@edwardgraham9443]

@@RGrantJones Thank you for your response. I was looking at the Pentel Twist Erase III, using a 0.7 lead. I was sort researching which lead size was best for writing and came up with 0.7. Prior that I had not known that there was a 0.3 lead. His well does it write? Does it break easily? Would you consider it better than a 0.7 especially for writing in a Bible?

[@RGrantJones]

@@edwardgraham9443 - 0.3 mm does break fairly easily, but breaks are rare once you get used to using it. Keep the pressure down and the exposed lead short. I've used 0.5 mm most of my life, but I prefer 0.3 mm these days because I can write small characters and distinctly. I think if I tried 0.7 mm, I would find I have to write in characters that are too large for the available space.

[@edwardgraham9443]

@@RGrantJones Thank you. That's the feeling I get from what I've read concerning the the 0.7 and was really wondering if I should go for the 0.5. I'll see how this goes. Thanks for the heads up.

[@MatthewMcknight]

How have you liked studying the Bible in chronological order, now that you’ve had this one for awhile?

[@garrettbrantley6448]

Are there any Facebook groups you are in that you would recommend?

[@Freddy-Da-Freeloadah]

Interesting! I might buy one... They are not too expensive on ebay. IMHO

[@craigmouldey2339]

There are a number of things I like about this bible, mostly regarding it's print. I would find the historical information interesting. What I wouldn't want is to be reading a certain book or account and then suddenly to find myself in a different part of the bible. I would rather they had a center column with cross-references. Additionally, they do not include the books which are included in the Septuagint and are recognized by both the Latin and Eastern Church as canonical. So, this bible is incomplete from that standpoint. This is one of those contradictions I see from those who hold the 'King James only' view. They may say that even the KJV is slowly being corrupted and you need to have a Pure Cambridge Edition. I have the electronic version of this and it doesn't contain the additional bible books of the Septuagint which were also part of the original KJV. So the Pure Cambridge Edition doesn't produce what the translators originally included either.

[@RGrantJones]

Thanks for commenting, Craig! I agree with you about the print -- and I wouldn't complain if Nelson were to produce an edition with a few additional books. Unfortunately, as far as I know, the NKJV is a strictly 66-book translation. The ESV would be a good candidate for a broader chronological study Bible.

[@NnifWald]

@@RGrantJones unfortunately Crossway has definitively said that they will never themselves publish an ESV with the apocrypha. This is not too surprising from a company as narrow-minded as Crossway, but still disappointing.

[@RGrantJones]

@@NnifWald - That's too bad. I think a Catholic publisher should consider the project, using either the ESV-CE or the RSV2CE.

[@NnifWald]

@@RGrantJones I don't know this for certain, but I think one of Crossway's terms for the ESV-CE is that Catholic publishers can't add any study helps to the text. I hope this isn't true, but it's something I've heard rumored. The RSV-CE and RSV-2CE are both great though.

[@sergiuskovalski444]

Hello Grant! How are you? Is it snowing in your place now? By the way, could you review "The October Testament" (it's better to exam a paperback). It's Tyndale's New Testament in modern English from Baruch Publishing House. It's interesting, what is your opinion about quality of this edition's modern English language /I'm not native Eng.speaker/ and covering of the paperback (the hardback is very good there). Imazing, Tyndale's NT (and his OT) is much better, stronger, much more clear and accurate than KJV is (nothing telling about NIV and it's "friends"). KJV and other ENGLISH versions rearrange☝️ passages inside the Scriptures! Tyndale does not... Only one very small example: Romans 1:3,4. Check it in Interlinear, please.

[@RGrantJones]

Thanks for the recommendation, Тарас Борисенко! I've been aware of "The October Testament" for some time now, but I haven't acquired a copy because I'm happy with the Tyndale New Testament facsimile.

[@sergiuskovalski444]

@@RGrantJones I have both Tyngale's. And do you mean 1526 edition by Hendrikson? Not very good photos... inserted into that edition. Not clear. Pretty bad photos. Not scanned, but it's used a really bad cam for taking pictures. Is that made in China? One american Bible observer said on KZbin: It's a shame! Colors are terrible, text isn't clear, not so cool as the pictures from original Tyn.1526's owners that on the internet from the original Tyndale's 1526. I don't recommend to buy that. 34€ is spent... in vain? And do you have Tyndale's 1534 retyped and reset edition? Another kind of published edition Tyn.1534 I don't know. So, don't be lazy, make a review of Tyndale's NT in modern English. After plandemic, all guys discard all the time changing Bible perversions NIV, ESV, NASB and so on. Are you still there, in the Past? In the past world, that liked semy-lie and falses? Awake! Or you will be jabbed... 6 times is already declared? Think NOW, after that will you be able to think☝️?

[@sergiuskovalski444]

@@RGrantJones Grant, my name spells "Taras" in English.

[@mikemacelfresh4532]

Do you have a favorite translation?