Holman Reference The New Testament Handbook, Sage Cloth Over Board: A Visual Guide Through the New Testament

I am thrilled with this purchase. So happy to add this to my library.

Superb book and insightful with glorious charts. Very difficult to read with the multitask page background colours and various ink colours. Off white paper with black ink would have made it usable.

First of all, I appreciate all the hard work that went into making this. Every aspect is high quality from the paper quality to the cloth cover. With that said, it pains me to say that I’m really disappointed in the choice to make texts so small and in very light colors because it makes the amazing information on the pages difficult to read. I understand that at times, you need to make text smaller if you want a graph or table on one page, but for example many times the outline for a book is very short and it’s still in a very small font. Then you add to the small font the fact that the text color choice most of the time is faint, it’s doesn’t make for an easy and enjoyable read. I’m a visual learner so I was very excited about this and I love creative and colorful books like this. However, the color choices making the experience hard to read baffles me. I’m 47 so maybe this was created by younger generations with better vision. And maybe other people my age and older experience the book differently, which is great. I just want other people to be mindful of this prior to purchase. Get it and check it out for yourself.

I have the OT handbook and had no issues with the product. I purchased the NT handbook and had to return it to Amazon. The binding glue had gotten on the pages near the back of the book. The result were pages with artwork damaged at the edges. I would also say the contents of this book seem a little less in-depth than the original OT Handbook. Some Word studies. But these can be found in many good commentaries or expository dictionaries with more depth. The idea was great, but could have improved on the execution.