Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Sameer Yadav <sameer_yadav2 AT yahoo.com>]

That's a good observation Dave.  But Zondervan's "A
Reader's Greek NT" is about .7 inches thick, and if
you figure that the NT is about 3 1/2 times smaller
than the OT, then you end up with an OT volume just
under 2.5 inches thick, which is only slightly larger
than the standard BHS...

- Sameer Yadav

--- Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net> wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 January 2005 10:50, Sameer Yadav
> wrote:
> > I don't see why a printed edition would have to be
> any
> > bigger than the average study bible that contains
> > substantial notes on every page (e.g. Ryrie,
> > MacArthur).  Bibles such as these  aren't unwieldy
> in
> > size, so there's no reason to suspect that a BHS
> > containing  the suggested notes would be all that
> much
> > bigger in size, is there?
> 
> One likely reason would be the paper used.  Those
> study Bibles are printed on 
> "Bible paper," i.e. the really thin "onionskin"
> paper that was developed 
> especially for printing Bibles.  It's doubtful that
> the book under discussion 
> would be put on that kind of paper, so it would
> probably come out much 
> larger.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Washburn
> http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
> "No good.  Hit on head."   -Gronk
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