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The Listener's Bible

By: Fellowship for the Performing Arts
Narrated by: Max McLean
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Publisher's summary

Max McLean brings his compelling voice and artistic narrative skills to the ESV Bible. This Gold Medallion-winning new translation combines a word-for-word translation approach with a literary beauty that is perfect for the oral expression of God's Word.
Public Domain (P)2004 Max McLean
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It's a good one

Narrator is fine, background music is low and not distracting. Probably my favorite version, and I wanted to keep listening. Sometimes the Old Testament is a chore, but this was well done. I will listen to this again.

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A nice way to get a daily consumption of Scripture

Listening at 2x speed isn't too fast neither, therefore I feel confident that I can even listen to the whole ESV Bible once a month thanks to colorful performance of the reader.

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I like this

I like the low not distracting music its a good way to listen to the word but the old books is most of this bible.

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Good recording - Great translation

The recording is high quality with some soft background music that I at 1st thought would be distracting, but after listening for a while found it not to be so.
This is the 1st time I have listened to the ESV and must say that I really enjoy the way it flows. Very simple yet accurate translation. I currently read from the NKJV but I will probably switch to this with the purchase of my next Bible.

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Two great aspects and one drawback

1. The narration is compelling but not annoying.
2. The ESV is used.

However, the various books are not listed when one looks at the audible app. I had to go through each of the 70 or 80 chapters and put bookmarks for the names of each book. that was a lot of work. I still cannot find the books in my side open that section and read the book marks. a way to label each section would help me find which part I want to listen to.

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Love It!!

I drive an hour to work each so I decided to make the drive a little more fruitful. Initially, I thought I wouldn't get or that it wouldn't "sink in". But God definetly speaks to me. I particularly noticed it when i was praying out loud- what I had been listening to earlier that day seemed to come out in my prayer. It surprised even me. So if you think you won't be able to focus I encourage you to try anyway. You'll get something out of it. I slowed it down on my ipod to help myself out and its perfect.

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Names of the books of the Bible

Why was the decision made to not include the names of the books of the Bible?

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Leviticus is messed up.

When the audio book is supposed to switch to chapter 12, it randomly jumps to Hosea 12:5. It’s strange. That’s the only mess up I have come across, but haven’t listened to the whole thing.

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Almost nailed it lol

love it except no way to look up specific passages... besides that I'm enjoying it

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Great narration - no chapters TOC

No table of content of any guidance to find a chapter of a verse make this hard to navigate. Still a good chronological listen. A very fine narration. With TOC would be awesome.

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