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First, and most accessible, the Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible is on Kindle sale for $3.99. (I mentioned this in my post yesterday.) This is the version with the New KJV 1which has 80% of the problems of the 1611 KJV, instead of the NRSV, so you’d be picking it up primarily for the notes and essays, not the translation. I don’t know how it’s formatted in kindle or how useful it may be in this format. I own these in Logos format, where you can link the notes/essays to whatever translation(s) you want, anything else you own, or just read them on their own.

Amazon also has the Akkadian Lexical Companion for Biblical Hebrew for $25 in hardcover (instead of $125!!) This is quite useful to students of Hebrew, but probably not terribly so for anyone else.

Logos does both monthly sales, and a Free Book of the month, which tends to have some steep sales with it. The Catholic-branded version of Logos, Verbum, does something similar. (And really, this is just branding. Anything you buy from either site shows up in your app, whether that app is branded as Logos or Verbal.)

Notable this month, you can get Joseph Blenkinsopp’s commentary on Genesis 1-11, Creation, Un-Creation, Re-Creation for $3.99. And also, you can pick up the 9-volume Dictionary of Classical Hebrew (this is more of a specialist resource) in the Hebrew XL Library. The price will scale a little depending on what you already own, but I got this package WITH the dictionary for less than half the price OF the dictionary!

Logos is free, you pay for books, packages, and increased functionality. It’s my go-to scripture reading and study tool. The image I used of the Tower of Babel in my post yesterday came from the free Faithlife (the parent Logos company) Study Bible. A list of other free books is available here.

Whatever books you buy or notes you make, Logos syncs across Mac, PC, iOS, and Android.

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