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Jarfff's Significant 40 Resources

40 is a significant number in some circles, like in the collection of usually 66 smaller books into one sacred volume, 40 items in my readings signify therefore a significant collection, with a major dominant theme, sprinkled by some other kinds of stuff.


Study Bibles are the thing, so groovy to be navigating through them all, gaining insights, and so on. It'll take a 3rd day to have the next day all begin in Gen ch. 2!!!

1 - 1599 Geneva Bible

2 - The Reformation Heritage KJV SB

3 - The Reformation SB

4 - The ESV SB

5 - The Lutheran SB

6 - Cultural Backgrounds SB

7 - NLT SB

8 - The NIV SB

9 - Life Application SB NASB

10 - The Abide Bible – thank you to @AliceinWonderland for this remarkable SB, i love the experience it gives, it guides you into taking more interest in the text and how you can fit into it.

11 - Ancient Faith SB

12 - The Catholic Study Bible

13 - The Didache Bible

14 - The Revised New Jerusalem Bible

15 - The Orthodox SB


Other resources:

16 - Reformed Systematic Theology – Joel R Beeke and Paul Smalley

17 - The Christian’s Reasonable Service – Wilhelmus a Brakel

18 - GK Chesterton – Heretics and onwards

19 - Flannery O’Connor – short stories then Wise Blood and so on

20 - William Perkins – from the 10 volumes, also any other Puritan.

21 - The Dordrecht Commentary, it's weird layout the commentary is right in with the text, and doesn't look any different, and is within {brackets}, also here shall be all the Confessional material.

22 - The Divided Self – RD Laing

23 - Philosophical Fragments & Concluding Unscientific Postscript – Soren Kierkegaard

24 - Luther’s Table Talk

25 - The manga Homunculus

26 - Stephen Charnock’s The Existence and Attributes of God, a mammoth Puritan work.

27 - Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

28 - Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

29 - A Short History of Decay and any other Cioran booki may fancy, same with –

30 - Friedrich Nietzsche, plus the secondary material

31 - The Catechism of the Council of Trent

32 - The Catechism of the Catholic Church

33 - Vatican II

34 - Matthew Henry’s Commentary, the unabridged one with all those super helpful hyperlinks

35 - Matthew Poole’s Commentary, some esteemed men and perhaps women also preferred Poole over Henry!!

36 - Jamieson, Fausset & Brown’s Commentary

37 - John Calvin’s Commentary

38 - John Gill’s Commentary

39 - NIVAC, the only modern commentary series i have in full, some are highly regarded and the rest are just plain ok, which is ok y’know??

40 – thank you to my great friend @bookerdana for endorsing this to check out, i love how Roger Ebert saw films from his audio commentaries i’ve heard and that special show they used to air with Gene Siskel, it will be a pure pleasure to get to know the man in Life Itself.
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Musicman · 61-69, M
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