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12 July 2016
Adjustable cap is too small for my head......
1 of 1 found this helpful This hat looks SO nice in pictures, and is listed as being adjustable in size. However, once I bought it and received it in my home, I found out it was TOO SMALL for my size head. To me, size and fit are EVERYTHING in a hat. I estimate the hat to have a maximum hat size of around 7-7/8, which is WAY too small for my size 8 plus head. I ended up giving the hat away to my nephew. Too bad........
08 May 2010
A dated, but useful bible commentary
Studying the bible is an act of devotion for Christians, as they desire to let God's word speak to them. However, at times the average lay person can feel like the man the deciple Peter met on the road in the eighth chapter of Acts. When Peter asked the man if he understood what he was saying when he read aloud from Isaiah, the man replied, "How can I, unless someone explains it to me?"
Religious leaders throughout Christendom have tried to assist people with this problem in many ways, including publishing Study Bibles and commentaries in various forms. The notes in these resources are not intended to be as authoritative as the bible itself. Instead, one should take the comments as one takes sage advice from a person who has "been there, done that". Just as one person does not have all the answers to every question, one should not look on any single bible commentary as the "last word" on the part of the bible they are studying.
With all that said, one can properly examine the Concordia Self Study Commentary. This one volume commentary on the whole bible, with copyrights of 1971 and 1979, was originally written to be a Lutheran based commentary on the Revised Standard Version of the bible (a translation that is no longer sold new, as the copyright holders for that translation have pulled it from the market). However, one can use this commentary as a reference for any translation, and one may even benefit from having the different perspective of another translation referenced in the study.
One must also realize that this commentary is the divided work of just two men (Dr. Waltter R. Roehrs and Dr. Martin H.Franzmann). Both men were distinguished professors of Lutheran Seminaries in the 1960's and 1970's. Dr. Franzmann started the commentary with the New Testemant and "Minor Prophets" portion of the Old Testament, but died in 1976. Dr. Roerrs, as an emeritus professor of Old Testemant Theology, then picked up where Dr. Fransmann left off and finished the commentary. Thus, the whole Luutheran bible is commented on (no Apocrypha commentary here), but only from a single person's viewpoint, however learned tht viewpoint is.
From a confessional Lutheran perspective, the commentary is solid, and well organized. Parts of the commentary are so timeless that they were extracted for use in the recently published (late 2009) "The Lutheran Study Bible", also published by Concordia Publishing House. This commentary has also been translated and adapted into a Spanish version by CPH that is still available for general sale.
While parts of the commentary are still timely, the volume does lack the update of the scholarship of the last 30 years. New issues arise (such as recent archeological findings and new revelations on the Dead Sea Scrolls, for example) that are not commented on. The raw "outline style" of the commentary's arrangement can get tedious (no diagrams, pictures, or sidebar articles here). This just a good basic commentary, with no frills, bells, or whistles.
Bottom line-If you want a basic commentary from a solid Lutheran perspective to supplement your bible studies, you could do a lot worse than this volume. Just recognize the limits of it that I have described, and you can go from there...
29 March 2016
This is a glove designed for YOUTHS
Be VERY careful--this glove is actually labeled on the tags as a YOUTH glove, so it does NOT fit adult hands (I tried it on my 52 year old hands-It doesn't fit.). The MLB logos on the glove and red-white-blue style make it look asthetically attractive in pictures, but size and a comfortable fit are everything in a ball glove. Your Little Leaguer may catch a few glances wearing it, but there are other red-white-blue youth gloves out there that cost a lot less if you are trying to outfit your kid.....