The Whole Bible Story by Dr. WIlliam H. Marty

I recently got a book from Bethany House Publishers titled “The Whole Bible Story” by Dr. William H. Marty. Before I get started, I need to tell you that I don’t have to give this book a good review, because of some law thing. Anyway, the whole premise of this book is to tell the Bible story in “plain English”. This is not a new concept, considering this is how most of the more contemporary Bible versions (like NLT, NIV, the Message, etc.) got started. This is a good book, very easy to read, and is wonderful for someone who is either not a Christian or a new Christian. This book is set up almost like a play, with each chapter opening with main characters and the setting. Then it goes to tell the Bible story, nearly verse by verse without the little superscripts that mark the verses, breaking each chapter up into different “acts”. At the end of each chapter there is a chapter summary, summarizing the chapter, obviouslyJ The Bible itself has a lot of repetion between different books (i.e, I and II Samuel, I and II Kings and I and II Chronicles, the Gospels, etc.) This book eliminates this, because it reads as a chronological book. This book does, however, leave out books such as Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, and all of the letters. By no means does the book replace a Bible, but it is a good explanatory guide as well as a good chronological guide.