Mark Strobel Updates His Stack

Mark Strobel started the "stack photo" craze back in November when he shared a photo of Bibles he'd acquired "under the Bertrand influence." Now he's updated the stack, and thrown in some photos of an interesting (and tiny) Book of Common Prayer, and a hard-to-find Cambridge calfskin edition of the NRSV. Let's take a look. Among the pictures you'll find attached are a revised and better quality picture of the "Bertrand Influence" stack. From bottom to top:

--Cambridge Wide Margin with Renaissance Faire Leather Cover --Cambridge Calfskin NRSV --ESV Cordovan Calfskin Classic Thinline --Two ESV Portfolio Thinlines, including the brown one which survived a car accident that the car itself did not survive! --Two editions of the Cambridge NRSV New Testament, Psalms, and Proverbs

That's all your influence.

Bertrand Influence Part 2

And then the top three, while not purchases resulting from your blog, include:

--Oxford Pocket NRSV
--Calfskin Oxford NRSV/BCP Combo
--Cambridge Pocket Book of Common Prayer, unknown publication date, but with the prayerbook custodian's certification from 1893.

As for quality books, it's safe to paraphrase St Paul. "Someone planted the seed, Bertrand watered, God gave the growth."

Prayerbook 1893 Scale

Prayerbook 1893 Spread

The other pictures include a couple detail shots of the Cambridge Calfskin and the Cambridge Book of Common Prayer. I don't have particularly large hands, but you get a clear sense of how small this book is.

Cambridge Calkfskin Text

Cambridge Calfskin

Cambridge Calfskin 1

Thanks, Mark, for sharing these photos. I like the look of that NRSV layout -- and as always, I'm loving that combined Oxford BCP/NRSV in red!

J. MARK BERTRAND

J. Mark Bertrand is a novelist and pastor whose writing on Bible design has helped spark a publishing revolution. Mark is the author of Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World (Crossway, 2007), as well as the novels Back on Murder, Pattern of Wounds, and Nothing to Hide—described as a “series worth getting attached to” (Christianity Today) by “a major crime fiction talent” (Weekly Standard) in the vein of Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin, and Henning Mankell.

Mark has a BA in English Literature from Union University, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and an M.Div. from Heidelberg Theological Seminary. Through his influential Bible Design Blog, Mark has championed a new generation of readable Bibles. He is a founding member of the steering committee of the Society of Bible Craftsmanship, and chairs the Society’s Award Committee. His work was featured in the November 2021 issue of FaithLife’s Bible Study Magazine.

Mark also serves on the board of Worldview Academy, where he has been a member of the faculty of theology since 2003. Since 2017, he has been an ordained teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. He and his wife Laurie life in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

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