![]() ![]() However, they were designed especially to be used with The Books of The Bible, an edition of the New International Version that takes out the chapter and verse numbers and presents the biblical books in their natural literary form. The guides can be used with any version or translation of the Bible. ![]() As you can tell, I’m eager for this resource to be made available truly free to everyone. Rather, I would like you or your church or other organization to pay even the printing costs. You may print out copies of individual lessons to distribute to participants in Bible studies, but I ask that you not charge anyone for their copy. If you quote from the guides, please acknowledge the source. In reading or downloading the guides, I ask only that you respect “fair use.” The content of the guides may not be sold in any way (for example, by being incorporated into another published book). They would also make a great next step for churches and other organizations that do Bible reading campaigns: Everyone could do a follow-up Bible study, in their usual groups, on a biblical book chosen from the section of the Bible they’ve all just read through together. I’ve found in my own experience, and I’ve heard from many others, that they work well for individual study, Sunday School classes, and small group Bible studies. I think you’ll enjoy doing that with these guides. ![]() Maybe you’ve never tried reading and studying the Bible without chapters and verses before. They don’t go chapter-by-chapter or verse-by-verse, because the chapter and verse divisions in the Bible often come at the wrong places and break up the flow. They are written with careful attention to the original language, historical setting, and literary structure of each book. Instead, they focus on understanding the message and meaning of one book at a time. The guides don’t jump around from book to book in the Bible. This will give you a window into the publishing process!) As a result, you may see a few loose ends here and there. (In a few cases, the PDFs I had of the guides were author’s review copies rather than the final published versions. You can access them by using the links found below with cover images and descriptions of the guides. The rights to these guides have now reverted to me from InterVarsity Press, and I’m making them available free of charge through this blog for online reading and electronic download. The series was called Understanding the Books of the Bible. From 2010–2013, I published a series of 14 study guides on individual biblical books and small groups of related books. ![]()
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