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You will not go wrong if your search for a bilingual French-English dictionary leads you to purchase this volume from Larousse. (more…)

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As the premier North-American-based professional association of biblical scholars, the Society of Biblical Literature (‘SBL’) not only publishes the prestigious and tightly-edited Journal of Biblical Literature (‘JBL’); its influence has a knock-on effect on other journals in this and ancillary fields. (more…)

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La Biblia en inglés que se llama New International Version (NIV) ha sido todo un fenómeno en el mundo de habla inglesa. A partir del 1999, los lectores de la Biblia en español hemos podido disfrutar de una Biblia que utiliza los mismos prinicipios de traducción que llevaron a luz la NIV. (more…)

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I have worn out more than one copy of the Langenscheidt German Compact Dictionary, but that’s no criticism: these sturdy little guys are designed for mistreatment and mobility. (more…)

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Paul Coughlin’s treatise on masculinity for Christian men is unsubtle in tone. His argument is repetitive. His research is narrow and clichéd. He wears his heart too much on his sleeve.

All in all, a very worthwhile book. (more…)

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In most of the world, it would be unthinkable for the syndics of the country’s two leading university presses to commission a new vernacular edition of the Bible. Yet in the middle of the twentieth century, such a project was still imaginable to the grey men of Oxford and Cambridge University Presses.

The result is the unforgettable New English Bible. (more…)

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This little 48-pager is one of those periodicals you need to browse in order to know what’s goin’ on around you. This genre of magazine tends to throw up at least one fascinating article and about two items of business environment news per issue that you don’t want to go without.

If you’re a Hoosier and the social version of peripheral vision matters to you, be sure to have a monthly peek at IndianaBusiness.

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Marketed in many shapes and colors, the TNIV is a twenty-first century update of the New International Version, which in the space of just three decades has become the English language Bible of choice if sales records are the criterion that matters. (more…)

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When the full version of the New International Version of the Bible was published late in the 1970s, no one would have believed how quickly it has become the default version of masses of English-speaking Bible readers. It marked a kind of coming of age of the evangelical movement and was tribute to the maturity of the scholars that made such a project achievable. That such scholars often sported evangelical credentials and that the Bible itself was published by one of the Big Three evangelical publishers lead some to fear and criticize the version as ‘the evangelical Bible’. (more…)

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Cuando se trata de la versión de la Biblia que uno usa en las Américas, se está entrando en un campo de minas. Por décadas, los evangélicos se diferenciaron de los católicos latinoamericanos no sólo por su hábito de leer la Biblia fervientemente, sino también por la Biblia que leyeron: no pudo ser ni más ni menos que la venerable Reina Valera. (more…)

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