<p>Speaking of questions for experts…where (or what) is New Jerusalem?</p>
<p>Do you mean scripturally?</p>
<p>Revelation 21:1-2 (NRSV) Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.</p>
<p>It’s perhaps not a pocket Bible, but it’s pretty small. As a Protestant, I’m bemused by the embossed pray-along Rosary.
You might consider also getting him a cheap paperback Bible that he could take on trips without losing the nice one.</p>
<p>This is a very nice Bible. The features (maps, bookmarks, dictionary of terms, etc., etc.) looks like it would be very good for studying.</p>
<p>I would guess that it comes in a sturdy box and maybe the box would make for a good carrying case. Backpacks aren’t the best of environments for study Bibles without some protection.</p>
<p>It did come in a sturdy box. My guess is that he would not “take it” with him a lot but he would be someone who might read a little each morning or night. </p>
<p>When I talked to the salesperson today at the Catholic Gift Shop, she said men usually don’t want anything to do with a book “cover” or case (whatever you want to call it!).</p>
<p>ellemenope wrote:
Bible publishers haven’t adopted the versioning convention used by software publishers, so when the King James Version was updated, it wasn’t called KJV 2.0, but rather the New King James Version. Similarly, when the Jerusalem Bible was updated, it became the New Jerusalem.</p>
<p>“Dot” versioning might not be a bad idea, though, since the New American Standard Bible was updated not too long ago. For a while, it was referred to as either the Updated NASB Edition, the Updated NASB, or NASB95 (like Windows 95?). Now that it’s the common edition, it’s just NASB and the prior version is NASB77 or some such.</p>
<p>There are entire books about Bible versions/translations.</p>
<p>Thanks for the answer–so New Jerusalem is really Jerusalem, updated…</p>