The NRSV Journal the Word Bible with Apocrypha

A review of the Zondervan New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Journal the Word Bible in brown Leathersoft (ISBN: 9780310454779).

- This Bible features a bold Comfort Print font about 9 points in height with almost 9.5 points in line spacing.

- Text is arranged in a single column alongside a wide (~ 2 inch) lined outer margin for note taking.

- The approximately 45 gsm cream-colored paper is relatively opaque, and neither show-through (ghosting) nor bleed-through are issues.

- The Leathersoft cover is soft and comfortable, the binding is sewn, and the Bible lies open and flat in Genesis.

- This edition does not include references, maps, or a concordance.

Detailed contents

00:00 Dimensions, margins, layout, font ... (three charts)
00:25 A look at the clamshell box
01:06 Size compared to the R.L. Allan NRSV1 Classic Reference Edition with Apocrypha
01:28 Size compared to the Cambridge NRSV Reference Edition with Apocrypha02:00 The page layout
02:35 The text is line-matched
03:20 The outer margin
03:35 The font in the text
05:29 The page-bottom text and translation notes
05:53 Paper qualities (thickness, weight, reflectivity, show-through, breed-through)
07:28 The print is very uniform (little to no fading)
07:40 The words of Christ are in black ink!
08:45 The books of the Bible begin on fresh pages
09:05 The binding is sewn: The signatures and the thread in the gutter
09:50 Lined pages for notes at the back
10:15 The paper paste-down liner and the leathersoft cover
10:38 The ribbon markers
11:20 The volume lies open in Genesis
12:25 The copyright page (the Bible is printed in the PRC)
12:57 The table of contents
14:36 The order of the Apocryphal books, and their canonicity for various traditions
16:05 A close-up look at the font
16:58 The font compared to that in the New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha (NRSV)
17:14 The font compared to that in the Cambridge NRSV Reference Edition with Apocrypha
17:37 The font compared to that in the R.L. Allan NRSV1 Classic Reference Edition with Apocrypha
17:49 Characteristics of the NRSV
18:20 The NRSV on the translation continuum chart (how literal or free is it as a translation?)
19:09 The NRSV New Testament agrees with the Nestle-Aland 28th edition much more frequently than it agrees with Robinson-Pierpont
19:59 Summary