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Today’s newest and brightest translation, Today’s New International Version, is now available in a full-featured study edition for deeper study and biblical understanding using today’s finest scholarship. With over 20,000 study notes this is the most comprehensive study Bible available.

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• Published on: 2006-08-01
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 2496 pages

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Recommended by leading evangelical scholars, pastors,
teachers, and church leaders worldwide for its
clarity, accessibility, and precision of meaning, the
Zondervan TNIV Study Bible is now available in the
two bestselling bonded leather colors: black and burgundy.

Features:
• Over 20,000 bottom-of-the-page, verse-by-verse
study notes
• Icons throughout the study notes highlight historical/
archaeological contexts, biblical characters
and people groups, and notes for personal application
• Topical index with over 700 entries
• 16 pages of new, satellite-generated, full-color
maps
• TNIV side-column cross-reference system and
concordance
• Indexes to study notes and in-text maps
• Single-column format with words of Christ in red
• Presentation page and 8-page historical timeline
section

About the Author
Dr. Ronald Youngblood is a graduate of Valparaiso University (BA), Fuller Theological Seminary (BD), and the Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (PhD). He has served as professor of Old Testament at Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, Wheaton Graduate School, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and Bethel Seminary in San Diego, and is currently serving in the same capacity at International College and Graduate School in Honolulu. He is an associate editor of the NIV Study Bible; author of 1 and 2 Samuel in the Expositor's Bible Commentary series; and a co-translator and co-editor of the Holy Bible, New International Version. He has also edited and/or written ten other volumes, including Nelson's New Illustrated Bible Dictionary, for which he was awarded the Gold Medallion Book Award by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. He serves as chairman of the board of directors of International Bible Society and frequently engages in preaching and teaching ministries at home and abroad.

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TITLE
The first phrase in the Hebrew text of 1:1 is bereshith (“In [the] beginning”), which is
also the Hebrew title of the book (books in ancient times customarily were named
after their first word or two). The English title, Genesis, is Greek in origin and comes
from the word geneseos, which appears in the pre-Christian Greek translation (Septuagint)
of 2:4; 5:1. Depending on its context, the word can mean “birth,” “genealogy,”
or “history of origin.” In both its Hebrew and Greek forms, then, the traditional
title of Genesis appropriately describes its content, since it is primarily a book of
beginnings.
BACKGROUND
B Chs. 1–38 reflect a great deal of what we know from other sources about
ancient Mesopotamian life and culture. Creation, genealogies, destructive
floods, geography and mapmaking, construction techniques, migrations of peoples,
sale and purchase of land, legal customs and procedures, sheepherding and cattleraising—
all these subjects and many others were matters of vital concern to the peoples
of Mesopotamia during this time. They were also of interest to the individuals,
families and tribes whom we read about in the first 38 chapters of Genesis. The
author appears to locate Eden, humankind’s first home, in or near Mesopotamia; the
tower of Babel was built there; Abram was born there; Isaac took a wife from there;
and Jacob lived there for 20 years. Although these patriarchs settled in Canaan, their
original homeland was Mesopotamia.
The closest ancient literary parallels to Ge 1–38 also come from Mesopotamia.
Enuma elish, the story of the god Marduk’s rise to supremacy in the Babylonian
pantheon, is similar in some respects (though thoroughly mythical and polytheistic)
to the Ge 1 creation account. Some of the features of certain king lists from Sumer
bear striking resemblance to the genealogy in Ge 5. The 11th tablet of the Gilgamesh
epic is quite similar in outline to the flood narrative in Ge 6–8. Several of the major
events of Ge 1–8 are narrated in the same order as similar events in the Atrahasis
epic. In fact, the latter features the same basic motif of creation-alienation-flood as
the Biblical account. Clay tablets found in 1974 at the ancient (c. 2500–2300 B.C.) site
of Ebla (modern Tell Mardikh) in northern Syria may also contain some intriguing
parallels (see chart, p. xxiii).
Two other important sets of documents demonstrate the reflection of Mesopotamia
in the first 38 chapters of Genesis. From the Mari letters (see chart, p. xxiv),
dating from the patriarchal period, we learn that the names of the patriarchs (including
especially Abram, Jacob and Job) were typical of that time. The letters also clearly
illustrate the freedom of travel that was possible between various parts of the
Amorite world in which the patriarchs lived. The Nuzi tablets (see chart, p. xxiv),
though a few centuries later than the patriarchal period, shed light on patriarchal
customs, which tended to survive virtually intact for many centuries. The inheritance
right of an adopted household member or slave (see 15:1–4), the obligation of a barren
wife to furnish her husband with sons through a servant girl (see 16:2–4), strictures
against expelling such a servant girl and her son (see 21:10–11), the authority
of oral statements in ancient Near Eastern law, such as the deathbed bequest (see
27:1–4,22–23,33; 49:28–33)—these and other legal customs, social contracts and provisions
are graphically illustrated in Mesopotamian documents.
GENESIS INTRODUCTION
KEY APPLICATION FOR LIVING BACKGROUND NOTES CHARACTER INFORMATION
B As Ge 1–38 is Mesopotamian in character and background, so chs. 39–50 reflect
Egyptian influence—though in not quite so direct a way. Examples of such influence

Customer Reviews

An Excellent Inheritor to a Grand Legacy
Another reviewer on here has referred to the new Zondervan TNIV Study Bible as "a design and usability fiasco," but I have to wonder if we are looking at the same product. I don't find the layout busy and cluttered at all. All of the new layout features are included for a reason as anyone who's ever studied page layout would know.

The highlighted chapter markers allow you to quickly fix your eyes at the beginning of the chapters. The boxes around page numbers and reference headings at the top of the page allow you to find what you are looking for much quicker. The A's, B's, and C's in the study notes allow the reader to quickly identify (A) Application Notes, (B) Background Notes, and (C) Character Information.

Yes, the font is slightly smaller than my copy of the first edition of the NIV Study Bible, but the difference is negligible. The pages are thin, but I have Bibles with much thinner pages. This is really a non-issue.

If anything, what's most important is the content in the TNIV Study Bible. This is essentially the 4th edition of the NIV Study Bible tradition. In comparing this Bible with my first edition, I notice 500 pages of more content in the new Bible. All of the notes, introductions, charts, maps and tables have been updated to the TNIV, one of the most accurate contemporary translations available.

There are also 7 essays scattered throughout the text on the following subjects:
1. The Conquest and the Ethical Question of War
2. Wisdom Literature
3. The Book of the 12 and the Minor Prophets
4. The Time Between the Testaments
5. The Synoptic Gospels
6. The Pastoral Letters
7. The General Letters

The reader will also find features such as an extremely details TNIV Harmony of the Gospels and a section on major archaeological studies relating to the New Testament. The person interested in Ancient Near Eastern literature will appreciate the annotated list of Ancient Texts Relating to the Old Testament.

Plus there are an incredible FOUR ways to find context: (1) an extensive TNIV concordance, (2) A biblical subject index (because sometimes you know the subject but not how its worded in the verse), (3) an index to the study notes, and (4) an index to the maps. I don't think I've ever seen a Bible that approached finding information in so many ways.

Yes, this is a big Bible (almost 2500 pages), but it packs an entire library of information in about 2" of thickness. If you would prefer something smaller, wait for one of the personal size editions to be released in the next few weeks. Regardless of which size you prefer, I would unconditionally recommend this Bible for any believer at any stage of spiritual development. Take it with you to church or buy it as an extra reference Bible for your study. Either way, you can't go wrong.

Excellent Bible by Zondervan!
It wasn't until after I completed a thorough study of how Bibles are translated, i.e., formal versus dynamic equivalent, did I come to really appreciate just how good this Today's New International Version is.

Biblical scholars realized that the NIV needed some work to make it even more accurate, more readable. As such, the TNIV translators changed seven percent of the NIV and two percent of this had to do with gender. And in so doing, you won't find a better dynamic equivalent translation of the Scriptures than the TNIV.

Over 100 bible scholars worked on the TNIV translation, and DID NOT have a feminist agenda as some want to contend. In fact, according to Dr. Gordon D. Fee and Dr. Douglas Stuart, two of the most renowned bible scholars in the world, they will tell you that the TNIV is as accurate, if not more so, as any version out there (this from their book "How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth"). Other well known biblical scholars such as Dr. John R. Kohlenberger, Dr. Mark Strauss, Dr. Richard D. Patterson, and Dr. Darrell L. Bock heartily endorse this translation. So you can be fully confident that you're reading the actual inspired Words of God.

The TNIV is as good if not better than the NIV Study Bible with it's 20,000 notes and other study aids provided. Its quality is excellent, with a binding that's not glued, but stitched. Has nearly 2500 pages with a concordance that is the largest ever bound with an English Bible. It includes 61 maps: 14 full-color and 48 black-and-white. Complementing the study notes are 40 charts, diagrams and drawings designed specifically for the TNIV Study Bible.

Its paper quality is excellent with printing that is very easy on the eyes with its 8 pt text and 7 pt notes. I love the fact that it's in a single column format and the words of Christ are in red. This is a very sturdy book, solidly made weighing over four pounds. It'll last a long time.

Poor Layout?
Just got a copy of the new TNIV Study Bible, and I had to comment on the previously maligned layout. I consider it a clear improvement on the old NIVSB's design! Single column text, clean and elegant font, and multi-color setting for maps and charts. My only wish would be to have a heavier paper, but that would just add to the tome's already substantial heft. All in all, I would freely recommend it to any fan of the old NIV Study Bible looking for an update.