THE UNIVERSAL BIBLE OF THE PROTESTANT, CATHOLIC, ORTHODOX, ETHIOPIC, SYRIAC, AND SAMARITAN CHURCH Kindle Edition

I give it 5 stars because of content but it's not perfect. The printed version needs to have the book and chapter at the top of each page like regular bibles and there are many typos.I must say I love having a bible (this uses the KJV) along with the apocrypha, Book of Enoch and Jubilees especially. I am eventually getting a hardcover with a bible cover to use in Church (if I want to flip to another book not in most bibles).I had to get the Kindle version so I could have these to read anywhere. LOVE it!

Perfect for studying. Especially if you always wondered about the so called missing books.

Hardback just arrived. Big and HEAVY. Printing is a bit small. But consider what it is. And it's true there are no page headings. I like it. I've been reading the Kindle version and like it. I wish Lumpkin had written an introduction explaining the textual sources and versions he used. It reads very KJV like, but there are minor differences. But I still like it.

I purchased a hardcover copy of the book. It is very big and heavy, which I like. I loved the idea of having all the Eastern canons in one book. However there are a few things I would have liked to have seen done differently. For example:1. The author's translation of the Book of Enoch comes from R.H. Charles' translation, evident by the fact the Nephilim are described as being 3000 cubits tall (over 4000 feet!), while the original 1840 translation by Richard Laurence describes their height as 300 cubits tall (450 feet). Laurence's translation is more true to the original work, but I can somewhat overlook this mistake as most copies of the Book of Enoch nowadays are by Charles, and Lumpkin may simply have been unaware of Laurence's original translation.2. As a fellow reviewer said, this book has no headers, so when you crack it open you'll have no idea what book you're in. Very bothersome for a large book such as the Bible that one would quote very often! I feel like I need to insert my own headers.3. For a book described as the "Universal Bible," I find it rather offensive to non-Protestants such as myself (I'm Orthodox) that Lumpkin included the Deuterocanon under the Apocrypha. That would be I, II, and III Maccabees, Tobit, Wisdom of Sirach, Wisdom of Solomon, Bel and the Dragon, Susanna, 1 Esdras, Judith, Baruch, Prayer of Manessah, and the Song of the Three Children. If anything, the book should have been labelled more like this:Deuterocanon of the Catholic Bible: Tobit, I & II Maccabees, Sirach, Baruch, Judith,Widsom of Solomon, Additions to Daniel, Additions to EstherDeuterocanonical additions in Eastern Orthodox Bible: III Maccabees, 1 Esdras, Psalm 151Deuterocanonical additions in Ethiopian Bible: 4 Baruch, Josephus' War of the Jews VI, I Enoch, Jubilees, 2 Esdras, The DidacheDeuterocanonical additions in Syriac Bible: Apocalypse of BaruchAnd so forth and so on. Not only would this help people know where each "apocryphal" book comes from and who keeps it in their doctrines, but it would help the author seem less callous in simply lumping all these books together in one big section like this.I still give this Bible 4 stars, because it is the ONLY compilation of all these Biblical treasures in one tome I could find without having some fake books or forgeries thrown in such as "The Book of Jasher" or "The Book of Adam and Eve." Granted there are a couple of forgeries in this book, and those are the Additions to the New Testament section. All three of those books were labelled forgeries by the early church fathers and were not kept by any church unlike the rest of the book (heck, the person who wrote "Acts of Paul and Theclas" lost his job over it after admitting to making it). However they do have their own little section rather than being put in with the books actually kept by different branches of the Orthodox Church, so I'll let it slide and not let it affect the rating.

Anxious to see all the revisions that King James did to the Holy Bible!

The print is to small. I wish there were some markers for the names of each book.

I would be loath to attach my name to something of this (lack of) quality in a book, especially for this price. Good grief, if you're going to take somebody's money (and for a BIBLE, for heaven's sake), at least put some effort into making it worth the price.That being said, it is a profoundly wonderful resource. The idea alone is worth 5 stars. This Bible fills a real need. It is unfortunate it has been so poorly done. With only a little more effort this could have been excellent. An enterprising person should take this same material (it's all pulled from the public domain, as the author tells us on pg 532) and simply put some effort into it; then they can create something amazing that's worth someone spending their money on.To the person who takes on this challenge, here are some suggestions to produce the perfect Universal Bible (that Joseph Lumpkin promised us but did not deliver):* Use page headings. A Bible that is to be used and referenced often with no practical way to navigate the text is NOT HELPFUL. In Lumpkin's Universal Bible (LUB) I had to spend hours going thru and hand-writing a header on each page.* Take the suggestion offered by Amazon Customer on their review of this book on April 5, 2017 titled “Very Useful for an Orthodox Christian but Could Use a Couple Changes”. This reviewer suggested identifying the Deuterocanon additions with its appropriate classification (Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Syriac, etc.). The chart in the front of LUB showing the list of churches and their Cannon of Scripture could easily have been formatted nicely to fit on a single page and be modified to include additional useful information. Instead it looks like it was haphazardly cut and pasted from some screenshot and doesn't even include the necessary numerical headings at the top of the charts on the following pages.* Use a readable font that doesn't require a magnifying glass to make out unfamiliar words. Garamond would be a good choice.* If you include an introduction, put it at the beginning of the book, not buried 531 pages deep in the middle where the typical person is not likely to find it.* This should be a no-brainer, but provide the version or translation of the work that you are including in your book. I was able to surmise that it was the King James Version that was used for the Old and New Testaments in LUB, but these appear to have been modified slightly. As Lumpkin tells us about the Clements and Hermas translations in his introduction (if you can find it), "some of the archaic pronouns have been replaced. However, the 'Elizabethan' sentence structure was left in place to keep the regal feel of those writings while modern pronouns assist in ease of reading."For example, a parenthetical note given in Enoch 19:2 that tells me how "other versions" read, or what "another version" says. This is helpful information, but LUB does not provide what those versions are. This seems Lazy. I'm not even given what version of the Book of Enoch I'm reading. (By doing some comparisons I was able to deduce that it appears to be the R.H Charles version)* If you cut and paste from the public domain, Take some effort to re-format so that there is uniformity in formatting throughout. Modernize chapter numbers that have been given in Roman Numerals to their standard modern numerical equivalent so that it doesn't require a separate resource to translate what chapter you may be trying to find.* Make it more portable. Personally I would like something a little smaller that I could comfortably take and use at church or group bible study. This might be a challenge given the amount of information to be included. I'm sure part of the reason LUB uses such a poor font was an attempt to conserve space. But with a judicious and practical use of formatting a Universal Bible like this can be made into a much cleaner work of art. The Apocrypha (KJV) published by Cambridge University Press (ISBN 978 0 521 50674 8 hardback) is an example of how a good layout can condense nicely into a compact little book.* Finally, set a fair price. If for you it's all about how much money you can make, then you can still give something of quality in exchange for it. Even better if you are motivated by the good you can do the world by offering a Bible that is more likely to be used often.

what more can I say besides the title except great & very under estimated ! the extra books, I feel need to be there & I will get the other one this company makes also... I AM HERE TO SAY YEH BLESS & PEACE BESTOW, OPEN ALL... did like the translation much but HAY there all messed up JER 8:8 ONE LOVE

The bible includes a lot of books, so good BUT the book-name, eg genesis is only printed on the introduction page of that book. So nearly impossible to find a passage because on book-name on every page, what is normal.

Eu sempre desejei ter uma bíblia que pudesse ser lida, pelo menos, pela maioria dos cristãos de diferentes confissões e acho que essa preenche muito bem esse requisito.

Most interesting as I was not aware that each division of Christianity has its own Bible

A formatação é ruim, se torna difícil ler essa bíblia. Ainda assim é uma boa compra-la para ter todos os textos sagrados em um só volume.