Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #386092 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Leather Bound
• 1184 pages

Synopsis
Who says the Bible has to be a bulky, black leather volume roughly the size of a small country? Now you can read the full text of the "TNIV", a fresh translation in today's language, in the most portable edition available. It's small enough to fit easily in your pants pocket, purse, or anywhere else you want to carry it. Endorsed by scholars and pastors across the country, the "TNIV" is the new translation for today's generation. It combines uncompromising reliability, the clarity of today's language, and the heritage of the most trusted translation, the "NIV". Because this portable edition was made from the same setting as the other "TNIV" text editions, everyone using a "Zondervan TNIV text Bible" is guaranteed to be on the same page, enhancing church community. Featuring a crisp interior design plus an innovative new binding, this is one Bible you'll want to take with you everywhere. It features: the full text of the "TNIV", a fresh new translation of Scripture in today's language; convenient, portable size to take with you anywhere; and, made from the same setting as all other "TNIV" text Bibles - so everyone can be on the same page.

Customer Reviews

Excellent bible to have with you on the move
I was looking for a good leather pocket Bible and I've certainly found one that I like!

The size would be small enough for a large jacket pocket, but would be bulky to carry around (it is 1170 pages after all!). As a bible to slip into your bag however, you can't go wrong with this one. The cover is a good soft leather with a hidden (not mechanical clasp) magnetic fastening for easy opening/closing. It's very flexible and comfortable to hold. The pages are silver edged and are of the usual small bible tissue-paper thickness but smooth, strong and with an easy, flexible binding. There's a small marker ribbon which has actually been "cauterised" at the end to stop it from fraying which is one up on a lot of books that I own that now have frayed marker ribbons!

As for the content, it's the Today's New International Version (TNIV) translation which is an update of the widely used and non-denominational New International Version. Updates are fairly minor for the most part such as translation of names (there's a mapping of NIV<->TNIV names in the back) but anyone following an NIV reading with a TNIV translation would have no problems. The books are separated into sections (The Gospels, The Books of Moses etc.), there's a Dictionary of biblical terms, people and objects that we're not familiar with today, a table of biblical to imperial and metric weights and measures and finally a "Through the Bible in a Year" plan that breaks up the entire Bible into 365 (4 Chapter/15 minute) chunks.

The only criticism I'd have is that the typeface is smaller than some pocket Bibles that I've seen. This makes it comfortable to read because of the spacing between the lines, but the trade off is the small size of the letters.

Unfortunately the photo that Amazon provide is of the box that it comes in which only shows part of the cover through the transparent film so I recommend going to the publisher's (Zondervan's) website and browsing through the TNIV->Personal Bibles to see an alternate image that shows the cover in full.

Overall, an excellent and superb value pocket Bible for people who can't find time to get their daily bread at home and want a modern looking, compact book for quiet time on the move. My ambition's to wear this one out!

EDIT: Sorry, but it turns out that I don't think this is leather bound after all; the description's wrong. Doesn't matter though, it's worn well (I keep it in my back pocket) and I still recommend it as a great pocket bible!

TNIV Pocket Bible SEA
TNIV Pocket Bible SEA

This Bible is a great size, nice n handy to carry around with you to church, work or on holiday. It also has a 'read your Bible in a year' plan which i shall be using. There is a helpful dictionary at the back too.
The writing is very small, but what do you expect in a compact Bible?!

TNIV TO BE REPLACED BY NIV 2011
TNIV TO BE REPLACED BY NIV 2011

TNIV 'for all its strengths has divided evangelicals'


NEWSFLASH

On 1st Semptember 2009 Biblica [THE BODY RESPONSIBLE FOR NIV & TNIV TEXT]and Zondervan [US PUBLISHER]announced that NIV TEXT will be fully revised.

This new edition will be called NIV 2011, The year of its release is 2011, 400 years exactly after the King James Bible was published.

The current NIV text (1984) and the controversial TNIV will be phased out.
The NIRV [New International Readers version] will still be published.


NIV 2011 will replace NIV(1984) and TNIV.

What will the changes be? We don't know, but Biblica is open to suggestions.