The So That's Why! Bible
Overview
Making Sense of All the People, Places, and Events of the Bible
To really understand the Bible you need to know why things happened the way they did. That means you need to know the world in which the events took place.
Step back into biblical times with The So That's Why! Bible.
Learn how the Bible's history fits into the context of the ancient world—why things happened, what historical and spiritual principles were involved, and how the events related to each other. Everything you need is here—culture, religion, politics, geography, and much more!
Top Highlights
“in the southern part, the land of Sumer or southern Babylonia.” (source)
“The Book of Deuteronomy is written as Moses’ farewell speeches to the people of Israel. They would enter the land under a new generation of leaders, which is the story of the Book of Joshua.” (source)
“story of the Bible is linked with the histories of two great lands: Mesopotamia and Egypt” (source)
“Old Testament images and concepts filled their minds” (source)
- Title: The So That's Why! Bible
- Author: Timothy B. Cargal
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Print Publication Date: 1997
- Logos Release Date: 2002
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible › Reference editions
- ISBNs: 9781418505356, 1418505358
- Resource ID: LLS:2.0.18
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-28T19:57:13Z
Reviews
2 ratings
D. Blaine
8/18/2023
John W Gillis
2/15/2022
This is a neat resource in print, where it is primarily a chronologically rearranged NKJV Study Bible, chock full of historical and contextual commentary sidebars, charts, timelines, etc. Most pages have at least some brief study help, and often much more. The point is to present Scripture as a story unfolding in history, in order to understand it better. A lot is lost in translation to ebook. As is typical with study Bibles, this ebook does not contain the Biblical text, so all you get is the annotations, presented sequentially (according to the proposed chronology, not Bible order). There are Scripture references provided for at least most annotations, but there are no milestones at all (not even page numbers!) so you can't sync this book to a Bible to either scroll the book's notes with your Bible, or scroll your Bible to the order of the book's chronology so as to simulate having the chronologically ordered NKJV. It would be difficult to use this ebook as a chronological study Bible, which was the intent of the print edition.
