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King James Version Large Print Pew Bible (Thomas Nelson) I had the chance to check this volume out from the public library. Pew Bibles used to be hardcover yet somewhat cheap. This one is hardcover, and is inexpensive but cheap it ain’t!  The size is excellent; it is easy to carry and store. It’s not too thick, too small, or too big. The print is wonderful! Nelson has really hit it out of the park with their Comfort Print fonts, and their KJV offering is perhaps the best of the lot. It is bold and easy to see but - unlike some older large or giant print Bibles, it is not stretched in any way. Did I mention it is Large Print? As in 12 point Large Print? My aging eyes don’t need reading glasses to read this one; indeed, I could read this with glasses at all! I’m not a big red letter fan (“I like Bibles where all God’s words are black  letter”) but this one is fairly dark, brownish red which is much better. Iv would think this has less a chance to fade with time. Not on...

As an addendum to my Bible versions review page, I want to do a separate page comparing the various English translations of the Greek version of the Old Testament, known as the Septuagint or LXX for short, both names meaning “seventy” after the legend that seventy (-two) scribes first translated the Torah from Hebrew into Greek ca. 285 BC by order of King Ptolemy Philadelphus, the Greek Pharaoh of Egypt. Per the legend, as he was building the Great Library of Alexandria he wanted copies every great book in the world, and commissioned the Jews to translate their law into Greek. The Septuagint or LXX later was used to apply to the entire collected Greek translations of the other Old Testament books. Why do we care about such an old translation? It was the Bible of the entire Mediterranean world for centuries, both of many Jewish diaspora as well as the early Christian church Many of the other ancient versions of the Old Testament, including the Old Latin, were translated from this ...