Ship of Fools: Small/handbag sized Bible recommendations

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Posted by Pomona (# 17175) on :

I would like a small Bible I can carry in my (fairly small) handbag - the size of an average paperback or smaller, please. I would like a version with deuterocanonical books, in order if possible. I use the NRSV usually but open to other translations.

In the Styx thread, Doublethink suggested an ebook but I don't have an ereader at the moment and find the Kindle phone app uncomfortable for sustained reading - and would prefer a Bible that never runs out of battery!

I am at Greenbelt this weekend and wondering if the bookshop has a decent range of Bibles?

Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :

Is this any help?

Posted by Dafyd (# 5549) on :

You should be able to get one from most religious bookshops I would have thought?
I've got a paperback sized NRSV with sturdy covers, from Oxford University Press. No apocrypha, but I think I made that choice in the shop. The paper is thin, but it's held up to all the various forms of thrown in a bag and taken places (including Cheltenham Greenbelt) it's had to endure.

Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :

I’d recommend the New Jerusalem pocket-sized edition.

Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :

There's certainly no reason why thin paper needs to be non-hard wearing. I've got a pocket NIV (I know!) that has been toted around the world for 25 years - including a large number of Greenbelts. The edges of the pages have gained finger stains, and the spine is coming away ... but the pages haven't ripped or anything.

Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :

Would that be your old Gideon one, by any chance?

Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :

I managed to break my little hardback NJB, eventually. But it stood up to a lot. (It still exists, but isn't attached to the cover any more.)

Posted by Japes (# 5358) on :

I've had this compact NRSV as my Bible to take on my travels for a while now.

No deutero-canonical books, though.

Posted by marzipan (# 9442) on :

I have this Compact Good News Bible - I find it easy to read as the paper's thin but not very see through. The text is small but pretty legible. It will fit into a biggish coat pocket. I've had it about seven years and it's fine, though i did make it a fabric cover about four years ago to help protect it.

Posted by Alan Cresswell (# 31) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Albertus:
Would that be your old Gideon one, by any chance?

I had a Gideon NT and Psalms at one point. I left it in a hotel room somewhere.

Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :

Coals to Newcastle.

Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Alan Cresswell:
... I had a Gideon NT and Psalms at one point. I left it in a hotel room somewhere.

That's what you're supposed to do with them, isn't it? [Big Grin]

Posted by IngoB (# 8700) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Pomona:
I would like a small Bible I can carry in my (fairly small) handbag - the size of an average paperback or smaller, please. I would like a version with deuterocanonical books, in order if possible. I use the NRSV usually but open to other translations.

Perhaps Oxford University Press' The New Revised Standard Version Bible with Apocrypha: Pocket Edition. Size is 18.3 x 3.6 x 13.7 cm.

Posted by Pomona (# 17175) on :

Thanks everyone - the compact GNB or NRSV look promising, I will see what the bookshop at Greenbelt has. They do cashback and I'd rather pay a bit more to get my money out and get a book with it, than pay £2.50 at the cashpoint!

Posted by marzipan (# 9442) on :

Note that the GNB doesn't have the deuterocanonical books. I don't think they're available in that translation.

Posted by IngoB (# 8700) on :

The GNB is available both with Apocrypha and in a Catholic edition (i.e., with the same text integrated rather than set apart). Here is a compact GNB with Apocrypha.

Posted by marzipan (# 9442) on :

Thanks for that IngoB, you learn something every day. I've never noticed a different edition to the GNB but then I've never looked.

Posted by IngoB (# 8700) on :

It's a bit of a hobby for "translation collecting" Catholics to look for editions with "Apocrypha", for obvious reasons.

(By the way, shouldn't you be 100% less cheese? 50% less would be "che marzipan" or "marzipanesy" or the like... [Biased]

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[ 27. August 2015, 19:07: Message edited by: IngoB ]

Posted by Jengie jon (# 273) on :

quote:
Originally posted by marzipan:
Thanks for that IngoB, you learn something every day. I've never noticed a different edition to the GNB but then I've never looked.

Oh there are several for the unwary. My GNB are all the first edition*. It has less inclusive language than the current ones. I suppose given the OP I should say this includes the small leather bound small one with a zip! Although that has no apocrypha.

Jengie

*Bought when it first came out.

[ 29. August 2015, 17:31: Message edited by: Jengie jon ]

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