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Thread: Small/handbag sized Bible recommendations
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Pomona
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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?
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Piglet
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Is this any help?
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Dafyd
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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.
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Alan Cresswell
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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.
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Albertus
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Would that be your old Gideon one, by any chance?
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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.)
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Japes
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I've had this compact NRSV as my Bible to take on my travels for a while now.
No deutero-canonical books, though.
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marzipan
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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.
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Alan Cresswell
Mad Scientist 先生
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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.
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Piglet
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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]](biggrin.gif)
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IngoB
Sentire cum Ecclesia
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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.
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Pomona
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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!
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marzipan
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Note that the GNB doesn't have the deuterocanonical books. I don't think they're available in that translation.
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IngoB
Sentire cum Ecclesia
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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.
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marzipan
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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.
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IngoB
Sentire cum Ecclesia
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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]](wink.gif) )
[ 27. August 2015, 19:07: Message edited by: IngoB ]
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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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.
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