Two more new books

Yesterday at about this time I walked into the warehouse, as usual, to peruse the new arrivals. I spotted a box from Hendrickson and tried not to get too excited. My rep had told me that they were shipping some new releases this week, but the day before some Hendrickson boxes had arrived with back-order fill. No need to get excited, I thought, it's probably just more of that. So, containing my hopes, I opened the box...

Hey, it really was the new releases this time! I stripped the shrink wrap off one of them, opened the book, being careful not to drool on the pages :) Hmmm, interesting way of doing it...By now you are all ready to shoot me, I'm sure. Interesting way of doing what? What are the titles?

Well, the titles are the long promised, oft-delayed wide margin Greek and Hebrew bibles. What is interesting is that they took the size and cover from the Novum Testamentum Graece--Large Print edition, dropped in the text size from Novum Testamentum Graece standard size and left the rest as margin. That leaves a lot of writing space, which is good. But, my eyes aren't good enough anymore to read the standard sized text. They did the same thing with the Hebrew text.

So, if your eyes are good, this is a great text edition to get. If they aren't, get better reading glasses! Oh, by the way, Jessica just smiled when she saw me going nuts over the books. I guess there's hope yet...

Here's the bibliography on them:

Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
Wide Margin Edition
Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft Stuttgart, 2007
lvii + 1574 pages, Hebrew
Cloth
ISBN: 9781598561999
List Price: $69.95
Your Price: $48.90
www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~BHSWIDE

Novum Testamentum Graece
Wide Margin Edition
27th edition
Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft Stuttgart, 2007
812 pages, German, English, and Greek
Cloth
ISBN: 9781598562002
List Price: $59.95
Your Price: $41.91
www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~NESNOVUMWIDE

P.S. I've reordered, the first shipment already sold out since yesterday. It takes about a week, so hang on...