Thomas A. WaymentCritiques

My initial review of this book concentrated on the difficulty of navigating the Kindle edition. I’ve gotten comfortable with it. Now to review the content.

What makes this translation valuable is the explanatory notes at the beginning of each book of the Bible, and the notes that are interspersed throughout the chapters. The notes give useful insights including various translation possibilities and variations between extant manuscripts. In the printed edition, the notes are at the bottom of the page and thus easily found.

In the kindle edition there is a note number to click on, which navigates to the end of the Bible book and to that note. Clicking on the note number there navigates back.

The translation is eminently readable, making it a joy to read.

I recommend this book to anyone who has read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, and wondered just how far his disclaimer that "All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documentsw, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate," REALLY goes.