*This is the Translation that Fr. Mike Schmitz reads from in The Bible in a Year Podcast
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Features:
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Catholic Translation: Revised Standard Version – Second Catholic Edition
Binding: Smyth Sewn
Typesetter: 2K Denmark
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- Detailed charts giving a visual overview of important characters, key events, maps, major covenants, and historical context.
- Newly Designed Full-Color Maps to help visualize Bible story locations.
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Features
- A full-color Catholic Bible with a beautiful eye-catching design
- Each book of the Bible is color-coded with a thumb index, indicating where it belongs within The Bible Timeline.
- Twelve Timeline charts provide a visual overview of the Bible, including: important characters, Key Events, geography, major covenants, world rulers, and contemporary events in secular history.
- Twelve articles give a summary and explanation of each period of salvation history.
- Seven articles introduce and explain the major covenants of salvation history, showing God’s amazing plan for humanity.
- Seventy Key Event call-outs provide a brief description of the milestones in the biblical narrative.
- Includes sixteen newly designed full-color maps.
- The words of Jesus are printed in red.
- Revised Standard Version – Second Catholic Edition.
- Granted an Imprimatur and Nihil Obstat through the Archdiocese of Saint Paul & Minneapolis.
- One complete book: this is the only Bible you will ever need.
- Two ribbon markers.
- Binding that is sewn and glued for extra durability. Groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. The individual signatures are bound and sewn, and then glued together to create a high quality Bible that will last for years
- An Alpha Cowhide cover
- Bible dimensions are 6" x 9"
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