This edition features an attractive LeatherLike TuTone binding in brown and tan, and a thumb index. The Deluxe Award Bible and Personal Gift Edition offer numerous features and a value price. It has a 14-point font size, words of Christ in red, 16 pages of full-color maps, ribbon marker, gilded page edges, and a presentation page. The popular Living Bible is available in several editions to meet a wide variety of customer needs. Acquired before 2016 by a thrift shop in Weatherford, Oklahoma Purchased in 2016 by Bruce Brantley, Oklahoma Donated in 2017 to Museum of the Bible, Washington, DC. The easy-to-read, giant-print New Living Translation Bible is perfect for readers preferring a larger font. Published between 19 by Tyndale House Publishers, Wheaton, Illinois. This set contains six volumes: Living Letters (1962), Living Prophecies (1965), Living Gospels (1966), Living Psalms and Proverbs (1967), Living Lessons of Life and Love (1968), and Living History of Israel (1970). Portions of the Bible were published separately until 1971, when Taylor published The Living Bible, the first major paraphrase of the Bible in English. The following year, Billy Graham found a copy and asked Taylor to print a special edition for his crusades, where half a million copies were given away. The Living Bible was a best-seller in the early 1970s, largely due to the accessibility of its modern language, which made passages understandable to those with weak reading skills, or no previous background in Bible study. Taylor and his wife used their life savings to publish Living Letters: The Paraphrased Epistles in 1962. 'The Living Bible (TLB) is an English language paraphrase of the Bible by Kenneth N. After several publishing houses rejected his manuscript, Dr.

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Kenneth Taylor worried that his children were having a hard time understanding the King James Bible and started paraphrasing the New Testament into modern English. Taylor proceeded to paraphrase the entire New Testament (published in 1967), and then the Old Testament (1971).

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