Amplified Pocket-Thin New Testament Softcover Bible

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The wisdom and encouragement of Scripture are yours in this convenient, palm-sized New Testament. It's the perfect travel companion---as close as your pocket or your purse. So when you're ready to head out the door, remember your Amplified Pocket-Thin New Testament. Now you can take God's Word with you wherever you go!

Includes full color Maps; New Testament Only

Publishers Description
The wisdom and encouragement of Scripture are yours in this convenient, palm-sized New Testament. It’s the perfect travel companion—as close as your pocket or your purse. So when you’re ready to head out the door, remember your Amplified Pocket-Thin New Testament. Now you can take God’s Word with you wherever you go! Using a unique system of brackets, parentheses and italics to define and expand key words and phrases right in the text, the Amplified Bible reveals the rich shades of meaning of the original Bible languages. No knowledge of Greek or Hebrew required! Verse by verse, the full meaning of Scripture unfolds as you read.

Community Description
Amplified Pocket-Thin New Testament
by Zondervan

Bible Translation: AMPLIFIED BIBLE
Ages: 16 & Up
Binding: Softcover
Paper Edge Description: White
Page Count: 480
Size: 3.7 in. wide x 5.2 in. high x 0.4 in. deep (Metric:94 mm x 132 mm x 10 mm)
Weight: 0.23 lb
(104 gm)

The unique system of punctuation, italics, and references from the Amplified Bible, in a pocket-size New Testament edition.

The wisdom and encouragement of Scripture are yours in this convenient, palm-sized New Testament. It's the perfect travel companion---as close as your pocket or your purse. So when you're ready to head out the door, remember your Amplified Pocket-Thin New Testament. Now you can take God's Word with you wherever you go!

Using a unique system of brackets, parentheses and italics to define and expand key words and phrases right in the text, the Amplified Bible reveals the rich shades of meaning of the original Bible languages. No knowledge of Greek or Hebrew required! Verse by verse, the full meaning of Scripture unfolds as you read.

Features Included in This Product:
Maps included, New Testament Only

Now this idea does sound noble. There are many nuances of especially the Greek text that do not translate very easily into English. However, in trying to be so expressive, the Amplified can be very awkward to read. The extreme "amplification" of the word "blessed" in the Beatitudes demonstrates this problem. Each Beatitude begins, "Blessed-happy, to be envied, and spiritually prosperous [that is, with life-joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation regardless of their outward circumstances]...." Reading nine such amplifications in a row is very tedious.

But even more importantly, many of the Amplified Bible's "amplifications" are rather questionable. For instance, in Hebrews 1:4 in the Amplified, Jesus is said to have inherited "the glorious Name (title)." But Jesus' "glorious Name" is more likely merely a reference to His nature not just His title (see John 17:5). "Name" in Scripture often has this wider meaning.

So the idea behind the Amplified Bible is good, but the readability and quality leaves something to be desired. I review the Amplified in further detail, along with many other Bible versions, in my book Differences Between Bible Versions.

I've been to bible school and never was introduced to this helpful tool. Today, it is a very close friend! I really appreciate the Amplified. Thanks publishers!