The NASB 2020 Giant Print

This Review Answers Your Burning Questions about the NASB 2020 Giant Print

NASB 2020 giant print review answers your burning questions such as 7 must have pages any bible needs for gifting, un-boxing short video, what you need to know in order to understand the formatting for the NASB 2020, what I do to take care of my genuine leather bible's, and my systematic daily reading plan explained and a whole lot more...

Publisher: The Lockman Foundation

NASB 2020 Giant Print

ISBN: 978-1-58135-172-9

Style: #3363

Cover: Black Genuine Leather

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Un-Boxing The NASB 2020

You might as well come on this journey with me as I un-box a birthday gift from my daughter. I did not know it was coming, so I wasn't waiting and watching for Fed Ex to deliver it. Imagine my surprise. Well you don't have to imagine just watch the video.

NASB 2020 Bible Review

The NASB 2020 or New American Standard Bible 2020 Giant print I have had this for about a month. I have had plenty of time to read and get accustomed to this translation. Of course you should read the forward which explains the Lockman project overall view to the NASB 2020 Aim, general philosophy and principles of the translation. In the forward they discuss there nasb 2020 gender accuracy, proper names of God, the Greek Text, etc.

In order to understand the formatting be sure to read the "Explanation of the general format," for the NASB 2020. This will help you navigate the footnotes which are pretty rich in some places and slim pickings or modicum in other places. Understand the quotation marks, Italics, Capitalization of words, small caps, asterisks, and abbreviations. Understanding the formatting will aid YOU the reader of this translation to understand the meaning of the text to a greater degree of knowledge.

The Exterior Elements

This particular Bible has a genuine leather cover (probably cow hide.) It is soft and fine grain. Taking care of the leather is pretty easy. I use a cloth with a little a drop or two of leather cleaner once a year, followed after twenty four hours with a light leather conditioner. I just use the same cleaner and conditioner that I use for my sofa and chairs.

Since this is not a more upper scale or premium bible it does not have perimeter stitching along the edge of the yap.

The liner is a nice synthetic liner which is glued down and not sewn. This is common for economy style bibles even if the cover is genuine leather.

Once I removed the plastic film from the bible I could smell the fine leather and it had a strong ink odor to boot. Oh talk about biblio heaven.

Nothing beats that smell. Someone really should bottle that scent :) .

One of the first things I noticed was the gold lettering (embossing) on the spine, it wasn't the usual times Romans font but a new more comfort clear San serif font. Great font and easy on the eyes.

Lockman publishing provided two ribbon book marks one red and the other black. Of course I had to hack my bible by adding four more ribbons for my daily bible reading which I will explain toward the end of the review. The art gilding is a soft gold almost mirror finish. Really nice. As you can tell from the photo's that there are a few spots on it only after a month of use.

looking between the covers

The first seven pages that you will run across are going to be glossy card stock

NASB 2020, first page is a blank page for stickers, or postcard,and images that you can glue or tape.
A presentation page
Wife and husbands family tree page
Birth and death pages
and an occasions to remember page. You know as we get older we forget several special occasions LOL :)
Then we come to the legal page and then the table of contents which are on standard thick bible paper (36 to 40 or 50 gsm.)
Then you will come to the forward and finally to the explanation of general format page, which we already discussed early.

NASB 2020 Giant Print Text

The text is pretty big. 13 point font, good for readers that need this giant print text size. I am enjoying reading this bible on my lap or even from a few feet away. All my other bibles are eight point, except for my grandmothers KJV Nelson, and my large print ESV pew and worship bible. .

This bible does have as most do Christ's words in red and it is a good dark red and I haven't seen any variations of the color through the Gospels. I'll share more in the pros and cons.

Here is an image of my KJV 8 point font compared to the NASB 2020 Giant print font.

Bible Maps

The NASB 2020, has included eight full color maps in the back of the bible. They are full color on a glossy card stock. The maps are not indexed but they are annotated and comes with a legend for easy distance calculations. Notice how the books lays open on my lap and doesn't want to close due to to tight tabs.

Here are the Map titles

The Biblical World of the Patriarchs
The Exodus Route and Conquest of Canaan
The Twelve Tribes of Israel
The Divided Kingdoms of Israel and Judah
The Herodian Kingdom in the time of Christ
Split map half page each 6a: Old Testament Jerusalem, 6b: New Testament Jerusalem
The ministry of Jesus
The Missionary journey of Paul

Pros of the NASB 2020 Giant print

What makes this a really good reading bible is that it does not have reference down the middle or sides and it has very little footnotes to distract.
Paragraph formatting is perfect for reading and the two column text is what we normally find in most bibles that aren't specifically for reading.
This bible comes equipped with a really good A to Z topical reference which is great for word studies.
I really like the verse by verse of all the parables of Jesus in the back. This is something that you only find in an older World publishing bible or a good study bible
The tab is a little tight but not tight enough to keep the bible open from Genesis on flat surface. This is uncommon for sure for not being a premium bible. ALso this is a big perk for pastors and teachers or for home bible studies.

Cons of the NASB 2020

The 2020 Giant print edition of the NASB is not smyth sewn, it is a glue down much like your hard back and paper back books. With consistent use this bible it will eventually break down within 5 to 15 years. Of course this depends on how well you take care of this bible. If you leave it in your car maybe just a year or two.
A little pet peeve of mine that I have is that the introduction to each book of the bible is in the back of the book and not at the beginning of the books themselves. I am a little lazy okay?
I am not to crazy for the gender accuracy of the NASB 2020, simply because gender accuracy wasn't in the original Greek or Hebrew text. It's not a game changer, they actually don't change the meaning of the text.
One thing that I don't like about the Critical text is that it skips or drops verses. NAMBS 2020 in Mathew chapter six for example dumps the later part the Lords prayer "For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen." My footnotes tell me Late MSS add this. Well I check all of my bible text above and they have this later part included. So, why are they dropping verses that are already in the Critical text? Scott Shirley on in the NASB facebook group informed me "The NASB uses the Critical Text, not the Majority Text. The “majority” of all New Testament manuscripts were copied about a thousand years—give or take a few centuries—after the autographs. The NASB, ESV, NIV, and others (besides the KJV) are based upon the earliest and most reliable manuscripts." Of course this is an on going debate among scholars and beyond this review. After some research the best example of the Critical text VS. the Majority text, can be found here.

Is the NASB 2020 Giant print any good?

I have read a few of the majority text versions including:

CSB Christian standard
ESV English standard
NIV '84 New international
NRSV New Revised standard

Now after only a month of reading the NASB 2020 for a short time, I have read through all of Genesis, Exodus, Job, almost trough with the Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, and I am almost through with Ezekiel.

For the New Testament, I have read through the book of John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, and almost finished with 2 Corinthians, I would have to say that the NASB 2020 bible is a really good translation, maybe even better than any of the versions I have already read.

From what I have found from some research is that the NAMBS 2020 is considered junior high reading, so I guess that makes the KJV college reading.

Check out this post for my latest thoughts on the NASB 2020 any good?

A Good Reading Plan for the NASB 2020

My reading plan is pretty simple and straight forward. I have added four extra 3/8" double satin ribbons to the spine of my bible. I used card stock folded and taped down my four ribbons about an inch in half above the ends. Then I used a drop of glue under each of the four ends on the card stock the folded the card to cover the ribbons and placed a heavy pot on top of it for about an hour to dry. Then I simply inserted the card stock down the spine and clipped the other ends at the same angle as the original and length.

As I mentioned above the plan is pretty simple for systematic reading

The first ribbon is for the Torah. This is the first five books starting with Genesis and ending with Deuteronomy.
Second Ribbon is for the history books which start from 1 Samuel to Esther.
Third ribbon for the poetry and wisdom books. Job through Songs of Solomon.
Fourth ribbon is for the prophetic books excluding Revelations.
The Fifth ribbon is for the Gospels including the book of Acts
last ribbon is for the epistles and the book of Revelations.

Most won't want to read the bible the way I do because I read two chapters a day per ribbon. That's 12 chapters per day and I spend about an hour and a half most days reading this plan. But you can read one chapter per day per ribbon which is just six chapters in less than an hour.If you have a hardback bible or paper bible you can begin this reading plan using book marks too. You can also split this reading plan up by morning and evening. This reading plan doesn't include studying your bible, that maybe a separate blog post for another time. Remember reading the bible isn't a competition, this is a book that I feel you should spend the rest of your life reading daily.

That's my daily reading plan, now let's finish up this review of NASB 2020...

Conclusion of the NASB Giant Print Review

Over all this is a really good Bible to have if you are older and / or need a giant print bible due to eye disabilities. It is a good reading bible with no cross references, bible commentary or a lot of foot notes slowing down the reading of your bible time.

This was my first encounter with the NASB 2020 translation and I can tell you that after reading my NIV '84 and the CSB translation, I prefer the reliability of this translation more than others.

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