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46 of 46 found the following review helpful:
Great Basic Bible Apr 15, 2005
By William Steck
"Bill"
I was looking for a nice, easy to carry KJV Bible, so I picked up a Cambridge KJV Standard Text Edition Black French Morocco Leather 43 model. It is the perfect size, and has a beautiful leather cover. The text is about the largest that I've seen in a Bible this small. It includes a dictionary for those now obscure old English terms.
This is a very basic Bible as there are no textual notes, or concordance. No cross references either. This helps to keep the Bible small. This is the original King James style. "Saviour" is spelled with seven letters, not the modern six letter "Savior", for instance. No brackets around the longer ending of Mark, or notes about the "trinity verse" otherwise known as 1 John 5:7.
The only downside is that the paper is not as nice as that found in the other Cambridge Bibles. The more expensive Cambridge Bibles have absolutely beautiful paper. Keep in mind though, that at less than $45, this Bible is about the best constructed Bible that you will find.
All in all, this standard text edition is a great buy if you are looking for a well constructed Bible without a lot of mass. Keep in mind that it won't have a concordance, or maps. It is though, light, and a very attractive Bible. If you want something nice, but simple, this is your Bible.
33 of 34 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent Text Bible Dec 22, 2004
By S Donahue
Even the standard text edition here, has a good-sized font. The Cambridge quality is unexcelled(unless by those of Allan Bibles of Glasgow). I am very grateful to the folks at Cambridge for installing a glossary at the back of the Bible to put the myriads of archaic words into modern, understandable English. Unfortunately, the Large Print Text edition does not have this almost-necessary feature. For an outstanding quality Text Edition, this is it. It also has a long ribbon marker, which a lot of companies are shortening, to the point where they only barely extend past the bottom of the page. Kudos to Cambridge. As an added note, I find the reviews by certain 'yaygs' who set themselves up as Theologians and criticise the very Word of God to be laughable at best, pathetic at worst.
30 of 32 found the following review helpful:
reconsidering my previous review Sep 20, 2003
By nlonghu
"nebula"
I'll have to revise my earlier review where I complained about "onion-thin" pages.In fact, compared to other Bibles, this one is the best in terms of print clarity, font, letter size, and general attractiveness. I've bought several (expensive) Bibles, which turned out to be much less pleasing than this one. The onion-thin pages are the norm with Bibles, and so not a point of criticism. In fact, I recently dicovered that good-quality editions of classics are usually made of this paper ...if it is india-paper. Anyway--that's my correction to my last review. Enjoy this edition!
21 of 22 found the following review helpful:
CLASSIC! Dec 29, 2000
By BBFK,MDiv
"bbfk"
This is THE CLASSIC personal edition of the THE CLASSIC version of the Bible in the English language. Anyone who desires a personal, beautiful edition of the KJV (without any "bells 'n whistles"), this is the edition your looking for. The quality and beauty of this book, as well as its easily readable type, make this edidion of the Classic KJV a real winner. You won't be disappointed.
12 of 12 found the following review helpful:
Ersatz Bible Sep 14, 2005
By Tecolote
For scholarly study and analysis of the Bible, described as a "surpassing wonder" by historian Donald Harman Akenson, there are thousands of resources to which I can go. However, sometimes I desire only to read through passages in the Bible - particularly the Psalms, prophetic books and the Gospels - merely reflecting and drawing on the spiritual riches to be discovered therein. So, I don't want pronunciation marks, notes, references, red-letter text or other things to distract me. This Bible meets this need for the most part. I only wish it included the Apocrypha as well.
The type is large enough that even my over-used eyes read over the text with minimal strain. The lack of "helpful" diacritics and the other items described above make reading this Bible a pleasure to hold and read. Like all Cambridge Bibles, this too is well made and beautiful to behold. And, last but not least, the price is right!
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