The Holy Bible in Audio - King James Version: The Complete Old & New Testament

I've enjoyed the 60 CDroms regardless of some of this audio set's shortcomings. This purchase is helpful and affordable. Each CD is a single-sided recording, and not the double-sided recorded CDs that are often ones which wear out quickly. Each CD feels of above-average quality with respects to its material thickness. Though, the cloth-like plastic carrycase is cheapy, it is adequate for the task of holding this 60-Cdrom set. The CD-discs slip out easily, though the discs due tend to stick when going back in. (Tip: If you use an index card like a shoe-horn, the CDs slide in smoothly.)This audio bible purchase is for its audio tracks only. None of the CD discs contain a full bible, Adobe PDF-file to utilize as a word-by-word read-along. This audio set lacks any printed index to help you find the exact disc number for where you can find a specific book, chapter and verse. The audio bible set's advertising cover fails to directly tell you just which version of Christian bible this audio set reflects. For the most part, you can loosely follow along with a revised, New King James version and you should. Why?This set claims to be the original and complete King James Version and is not! Two reasons. One, it lacks the canonical books (also called the Apocrypha or Septuagint books.) Ten missing books, for example: Tobit (Jesus referenced to this when He mentioned Sarah and her seven husbands), the Books of Maccabees, Baruch, Sirach, Wisdom, and Judith. This audio bible set is likely a revised "New King James" version. It includes the use of terms like "Lo" and "Spake" and "Thereof" in its biblical text. I have a Nelson New King James from the 1980s, Oxford Cambridge from the 1990s--and this set doesn't reflect either closely. Perhaps a better Amazon-Sherlock will narrow down the NKJV book that has been used. Second, even if this audio set is a revised New King James version, this Holy Bible set comes up short. It is incomplete, mostly due to sound editing errors that I will refer to, later.Two great voices deliver their best on most of the bible stories: Jon (And it is Jon and not Jan) Sherberg and James Earl Jones. Every storyteller has his own technique. In the Old Testament, Jon Sherberg flies through the difficult, mind-strangling, and confusing foreign nouns (Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, or whatever) that often reduce the reading comprehension of us, mere mortals. If you are like me, you tend to skip over those words. Since I can't pronounce them, I tend to treat them, all, like one generic blank-space. I read absorbing what I can, then move on. With this audio set, I was astounded as to how much I was missing. Mr. Jon Sherberg delivers those foreign-tongue terms with incredible ease and verve. Because of his and Mr. Jones' audio tracks, I have retained the specific sounds of their pronounced speak; and later used those foreign-sounding terms to make associations throughout other bible stories. A new experience for me. Bible stories need to be heard, told out loud. James Earl Jones delivers the New Testament far differently than Jon Sherberg attacks the Old Testament. Mr. Jones talks like a kindly parent reading bedtime stories to impressionable children. When he says, "LUKE," for a moment I hear the same voice that he gave in the audio recordings for Darth Vader in Star Wars. The clear recordings by both audio performers make for great stuff. Jon Sherberg, dealing with the Old Testament's harshness and violence, brings in flaring flavor in the active adventure passages. For the genealogy verses, he gives dictatorial clarity and swiftness (Son of this, tribe of that. A trove of foreign-tongue words flying easily off his tongue. The chronologies of the bible, a part thereof.) Overall, this audio bible set delivers new clarity and understand for my family and I. In that, I thank God for this set's good aspects. For you, I'm adding what information you may need to make your best choice. This set was advertised to be something far better than what arrived at my family's doorstep.Sound errors. Of the over 1200 audio tracks, about 12 tracks carry sound-editing errors. OT Ezekiel 17 and two of the tracks from NT Peter carry middle-area erasures with confused garbling sounds. Maybe it is some kind of audio decompression error. Most of the other CD-audio errors are erased verse-endings; as in, someone wanted to reduce the size of that audio-track's fading-out silence, and that person mistakenly shaved off a few words or half the bible verse in the process. The audio set's advertising cover says Made in China. Perhaps someone's lack of English and Christian knowledge contributed to these careless sound-editing errors. He, she, or they did not take due editing diligence in dealing with the Holy Bible, here. Regardless of that, Mr. Jon Sherberg and Mr. James Earl Jones presented their best. God bless them. God bless you. In the error tracks, you can hear the abrupt audio interruptions, and know that those tracks have been mishandled. Each audio track in this collection is audibly labeled by the speaker (1 Corinthians, Chapter 13...and so forth) in the beginning of each track. If you are thinking of converting these tracks into MP3 files, Windows Media has only some of the disc tracks accurately labeled. You will be doing a lot of labeling by hand, even if you use NCH's Switch program.To get the complete, revised New King James bible experience, this audio set is not enough. You will need to amend those faulty sound-verses with quiet readings from the erred corresponding passages. Twelve tracks out of twelve-thousand equals one-percent---not a bad error margin for long, audio series. However, this is a set containing stories from the Holy Bible. This audio bible set is not complete! Some reviewers are giving these as gifts to folks with visual impairments. That has me concerned. It's part of my Christian beliefs and understandings that absorbing/reading the complete holy bible brings special graces and blessings from God, to you. Go the distance! Be sure to enjoy the full and complete bible.This audio bible helps with your endeavor to study, but does not measure up to its advertising as a complete King James version. Other audio versions that are advertised as complete (with the ten missing books), and are twice the price or more. If you're looking for an abridged bible aid, this might work for you. If you're looking for a complete audio Holy Bible, this will fall short. I personally can't recommend one of the other audio sets that fits the bill of being "more" complete. In all likelihood, I would expect errors in them, too. The Devil is the hardest working agent on the globe and fully intends to be goodness a constant chore. I am saving to get one of the larger Holy Bible audio sets with the ten missing books. In the Book of Judith, she lobs off the head of an enemy. Such women of moxy carry quite an appeal to me. The New King James dumped the Book of Wisdom and kept the sexually-charged passages of the Song of Songs/Song of Solomon? God forgive us for our constant idiocy. *L* May God's peace be upon you.

I did not truly know how best to determine the value of this purchase.The rated value assigned represents a problem that has not been resolved.The problem that has not been resolved is complicated by the fact that upon discovering this problem I felt there was a wilful misdeed underfoot, that is, I felt the misdeed was deliberate.I only discovered this wilful act at a later point, and only recently did I discover that two discs were not present.I believe that those two disc's missing were from "The Old Testament" and they were, in fact, The Books or Book of Daniel.The missing two discs were​ further aggravated by the fact that this purchase seems to be without an ability to repair this grievance as the allotted time allowed to return this purchase had just expired.This all was quite difficult to take so seriously as the conduct of another such purchase met with a shorting of value there as well.That purchase was an earlier attempt to purchase a version of the "Holy Bible" read by Alexander Scourby.I got my money back, but I had to pay from my own pocket to return the purchase.I was not reimbursed.Though this is as I have stated, I wanted to express something of the true value of what this purchase has meant.This particular purchase with both "Old and New Testaments" is a value I cannot replace.The reading thus far done by Jon Sherberg in his reading of the "Old Testament" is excellent. The words and names and locations are so well read that I actually was learning about Gods plan.It is such a worthy adventure to know our heavenly Father through his word that good fortune seems to have followed me as I know Daniel much better through a Series called "Agents of Babylon" by Dr.David Jeremiah.It was in a consideration of the literal translation as read by Jon Sherberg that I had wanted to check for the Book of Daniel.It was then that I discovered that the "Book of Daniel" was indeed missing.The importance of the literal translation is important enough to illustrate what I'am talking about.In Exodus as Pharoahs, chariots seem to have all of Isreal with their back against the sea God constructs a wall in a mist.This literal translation(reading) did not place it as a wall of fire God only said it was a wall in a mist.That was important enough to make note, and it was the reason I wanted to listen to Jon Sherberg read the "Book of Daniel".In Truth, this is what I wanted.Presently I am' listening to Disc 20 with Jon Sherberg's reading of II Kings verses 1-10.

Of course, what is not to like about James Earl Jones reading the New Testament. lol I always wondered why James Earl Jones doesn't read the Old Testament and I think I know why. I am reviewing this as a professional Voice Over person myself. Jon Sherberg is a masterful narrator for the Old Testament and has the language down on the names of people as to how it would have been said back in the day. Perhaps that is why James Earl Jones graciously had someone else read the Old Testament? It would have taken much much more time to learn how to pronounce the names than to have someone that could do it more efficiently. Sometimes that is just the way it is and it is no offense against James. Doing an audiobook alone is hard enough. Without having to do more research on how to say stuff. Trust me on this. lol

I have trouble with my eyes and this telling me word for word I can go along in my Bible and stay up with it!

The text wasn’t bookmarked correctly so you couldn’t navigate at all through the books. You can only read start to finish

Impossible to navigate - no table of contents -

朗読は良かったけれど　不良箇所が沢山あって　結局返品してしまいました。おすすめできません

I really love the Old Testament readings but the New Testament readings are too fast. I normally like James Earl Jones but I felt he read the NT too quickly. With the words of Jesus, I really want the reader to take their time so I can absorb his messages instead of trying to keep up with the fast pace. Someone else said it wasn't too fast but it was too fast for me. Just my opinions. I do love the voice of James Earl Jones though.

Was just as I expected, great value for money.