Customer Reviews:
 Easy to read, refreshing to the scholar November 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Received a copy as a gift, and was surprised at the clarity of the translation, at the different way Fenton looks at certain passages. There are some "Britishisms" which will make the American smile (or scratch their head) now and then, but not that many. British spelling, of course.
It's such a different approach that frequently his way of putting it will cause us to say, "Wow, I've never considered that, but it makes sense, I can see why he might translate it that way!"
Whether you read casually, or study deeply, you'll probably like this version. If you have a friend who is a scholar, this will be a gift that he/she will really appreciate.
I don't care for his re-ordering the numbering of the verses in some chapters, and the order of the books. That's confusing, but that's all part of its charm, I suppose.
Great Translation Bible November 10, 2008
A friend of mine has this version and I always enjoyed its different translation, which is very down to earth. Finally I decided to grab a copy myself. I've yet to find any translations that seemed to be only an opinion of the author, and the version only seems to just make and verse make more sense in how the word is spoken now, verses the origional languages. Even though it was translated years ago, the author makes this version much easier to read and understand, I use mine mostly in a weekly bible study compared with a few other versions to help make sense or get different points of view when we want clarity.
An Eye-opener April 9, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"By Periods God created that which produced the Solar Sysems;" Genesis 1:1
Wow! This is a wonderful new, modern sense of the Bible. Ferrar Fenton's translation is better than I had hoped it would be. The book arrived in great time and it is beautifully bound.
 Very good translation, but... February 23, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
The binding was unglued when I received it and the print on alot of the pages was faded...from 1 to 5 on fading I would say some pages were at a 3 as far as darkness of font. I love the translation..but am not happy with the product I received. Mom and Pop organization that prints it off. Nothing wrong with that...but as I mentioned earlier you can tell it is not done professionally.
This is the Best English Translation of the Bible February 29, 2004
18 out of 22 found this review helpful
This particular translation was painstakingly created beteen 1853, and 1903. This is an actual translation by the dedicated, and it gives you exactly what is in the Bible. There are also some very good footnotes, and forwards, for the places that are hard to translate. Once you try this Bible you will not want any other. Read the Book of Jonah and you will see that his being swallowed by a whale is a mistranslation, you will have to read it to see what really happened.
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