This past weekend I drove my family up to Greenville for a quick weekend visit with friends. We had a wonderful time and wished that we had more time to visit with everyone we saw. The Lord has been very good to us to have surrounded us with so many good friends.
While in Greenville I saw Bryan Smith and, for a few minutes before the evening service at Mount Calvary, I had the privilege of previewing his copy of A Reader's Hebrew Bible. My initial impression was very positive! It is a very attractive volume about the same size and weight of an average Bible. (Bryan was holding his newborn baby in one hand and his RHB and an English Bible in the other hand and wasn't even breaking a sweat.) In all seriousness, it is a very nice volume with a soft leather binding, silver gilded page edges, a ribbon. The first thing I wanted to view was the bleed-through. There is a slight bleed-through, but not nearly as troublesome as I had feared. Also the text and the footnotes sections are very crisp and readable.
I wish that I had more time to peruse this book, but I'm at least glad to have been able to preview it. I'm eager to get my own copy! I also am considering purchasing the Greek edition. I can certainly stand to continue working on my skill with both languages.
I hope that you, too, will consider this new tool. I expect it to be a great help for those of us who still need some help with the vocab.
If you haven't read our Q&A with the editors, please read the following posts:
- Forthcoming: A Reader's Hebrew Bible edited by Philip Brown & Bryan Smith
- Q&A with Philip Brown: A Reader's Hebrew Bible | Part One
- Q&A with Philip Brown: A Reader's Hebrew Bible | Part Two
- Q&A with Bryan Smith: A Reader's Hebrew Bible
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