This is a full, unabridged, uninterrupted version of all 4 Major Prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah (including Lamentations), Ezekiel and Daniel, as well as all 12 Minor Prophets (Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi), as they appear in the Holy Scriptures Contained in the Old Testament. They are read by best-selling faith-based narrator, Steve Cook. The recording contains no commentary or other human adornment, only the pure, living Word of God, profitable for teaching, convicting, correcting, and instructing in righteousness.

The text is taken from the Revised Geneva Translation of the Holy Bible. The RGT is a 21st Century update of the 1599 Geneva Bible. It eliminates archaic and potentially distracting 16th Century words, phrases, and punctuation, while at the same time maintaining the strict attention to original intent for which that version of The Holy Bible has always been known. In scholarly terms, it is a formal equivalency, based on the Byzantine text-type family of manuscripts. The RGT is one of only a handful of modern translations of the Holy Bible to do so. Almost all other modern translations, including the NASB, ESV, NIV, and NLT, use the shorter Alexandrian text-type family of manuscripts as their base text, which excludes passages such as Mark 16:9-20, John 7:53-8:11, and the “Johannine Comma” of 1John 5:7-8, in addition to hundreds, if not thousands, of other smaller textual omissions, such as Acts 8:37, Matthew 17:21, Mark 11:26, Luke 23:17, and John 5:4.

In addition, the RGT strives to preserve the textual cadence and poetry that is so essential to Elizabethan literature. Just as in all preceding centuries, Biblical text in the 1500’s was meant to be heard and seen, as much as read, because so many of those who received it were illiterate and needed to memorize it and speak it back to each other often in order to facilitate meditation. And so the living and active characteristic of God’s word is very much kept in mind on these recordings.

*Technically speaking, Five Talents Audio wants you to have the freedom to play these tracks on whatever player YOU desire, not a certain single player that someone else chooses for you. That’s why we deliver them to you in clearly-labeled, universally-encoded mp3’s. They are easily loaded and ready to be enjoyed in multiple players and dashboards of YOUR choice. No proprietary players. No DRM.

Read the full Introduction to the Revised Geneva Translation.

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