This is a good place to start a study the Bible, beyond reading the english translation. It has a good concordance, interesting annotations, and a reasonable cross reference. By no means is this a comprehensive concordance, annotation, or cross reference, but it is an excellent place to start. This will help you get the tools you need to do a more advanced selection of study materials.

Have just purchased this new edition to the classic scofield and am very impressed and satisfied with it.
You don't have to be a dispensationalist(which I'm only marginal) to benefit from this great study bible. Every area has been improved for greater ease in studying particular topics and seeing the scriptures as one whole panoramic view of God's salvific dealings with man.
The format is great and print type has excellent readability as well as quality binding(have genuine leather)from Oxford Press.
Have older scofield and this one wins hands down. Slightly larger than former one(as more study notes) but hardly clumsy as some study bibles are.
Consider myself Historic Premillenial rather than dispensational , especially in regards to pre-trib rapture and totally distinct plans for true Israel and true Church, but non-the-less has has many qualities that all believers can benefit from.
The story behind the Scofield Bible is fascinating as well(though not included with bible), would loved to have been around for those classic prophetic conferences in the latter part of the 19th century at those fascinating locations!

I am a seminary student and as such I do a great deal of Bible study. I have found that The Scofield Study Bible 1917 edition is by far the most convient tool in my library. Dr. Scofield offers some insightfull commentary and wonderfull historical notes in a "user friendly" and very well organized fashion. Further more, the concordance and maps are top notch. While I differ with Dr. Scofield on several theological issues, I greatly admire The Scofield Study Bible and use mine regularly.

This is an excellent study bible of superlative quality. The study notes and references inform but do not overwhelm you indicating it was well thought out. I have other Scofield bibles but this one is the best one yet in all categories. The included CD-ROM includes the Old Scofield Study Notes plus the Nelson Suite of software (unlocked) containing the KJV, NKJV, NLT & CEV plus it's Illustrated Dictionary and many more references too numerous to mention here.

This small book surprised me with its excellence. The short stories contained in it are all well written and fascinating to read. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Scottish folk-tales!

I checked out this book from the public library and read it twice before I started learning sculpture. Now I finally bought it and I'm still reading it. It's a wonderful book a have to get inspired from the masterpieces. Know the trends and thoughts in the sculpture field. Helps you create artworks from a border point of view, also improve the criticism knowledge.

George Gordon (Lord Byron) should be at the top of every eighteen-year-old schoolboy's list. He certainly was mine. If any human being ever summed up better what it was to be a misfit, romantic, self-centered spirit, I would give money to that individual gladly, as well as an eternal endowment. Having come across "Childe Harold," as well as "Childe Harold Revisited," and the supremely Promethean, Miltonic, "Manfred," at that tender age, I felt myself the principal target of Byron's message. With a healthy dose of Ayn Rand and Aldous Huxley to back me up, all I needed was Manfred's craggy peaks to provide the dramatic backdrop for my Napoleonic, Nietzschean ruminations. Throw in a bit of Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Carlyle, and you have the perfect romantic in embryo, which I was at that age and which I believe is a healthy larval stage for any human spiritual entity at that stage, be it either male or female. Add a dash of Melville, any Bronte you choose and a touch of the Baghavad Gita, the Upanishads, the I-Ching, the book of Tao, and you have a convert to esoteric, at times misguidedly solipsistic, hippy philosophy. That was me.

So if you are seventeen or eighteen, don't overlook the romantics who are the necessary guides to our enlightenment at that impressionable age. I in no manner mean this disparigingly, as I now consider myself at least semi-enlightened, if only in the strictest, literary sense. Follow Keats, Shelley, Byron, Blake, Wordsworth, Goethe, Schiller, Carlyle, Melville, and Emerson to the ends of the earth. They shall take you there and beyond.

Gerard Manley Hopkins is the greatest English poet to ever put pen to paper, bar none. Yes, even better than Shakespeare. Every student of English lit should read Hopkins. Hopkins writes from a profound love and awe of God and the beauty of His creations, but also from a deep despair resulting from chronic depression. His mastery of classical English combined with his magic use of sounds and word inventions is sheer genius. Read him.

William Hazlitt, though not much read today, remains one of the greatest prose stylists of the language, and with Dequincey, one of the two best of the romantic age. A must!

Australian legal scholar Musgrave explores the relationship between self-determination and minority rights in international law, clarifying the issues involved, especially since the establishment of the United Nations and the development of international norms of human rights. He includes a treatment of the dissolution of Yugoslavia within a historical context, and discusses the origins of national consciousness, developments up to World War II, international instruments and judicial decisions, the practice of states, the protection of minorities, the definition of the term people, secession, irredentism, and historical title