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THE B O O K C L U B WINTER 2012 Selection Savings Service ◆ Inside & Online The New CEB Daily Companion Testament for Bible Everyone Now finished! “Likely the largest cross-denominational Series, translation project in recent 18 Volumes memory, this unites Baptist, N.T. Wright Catholic, Evangelical, United “In this new Methodist, and numerous other series Wright excels faith traditions in a joint effort as a communicator, to create a complete but broad- making it the most excit- ly accessible Bible for the 21st ing study guide since William century. Goes far toward creat- Barclay’s Daily Study Bible,”— ing a plain English version that Expository Times. One of the world’s foremost New can be read and understood by Testament scholars has completed his outstanding new a range of ages, educational backgrounds and apti- translation and commentary. 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