Inspired By … The Bible Experience Audio Bible—Today's New International Version, TNIV: Complete Bible: A Dramatic Audio Bibl

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Some of Today's Leading Black Voices—Including 3 Oscar Winners, 23 Grammy Winners, 8 Emmy Winners, and 5 Golden Globe Winners—Performing Today’s New International Version (TNIV)

This ambitious and critically-acclaimed presentation of the Bible is set to an original musical underscore performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and a Hollywood-style sound design created by Technicolor Studios. Listen as the voices of Denzel and Pauletta Washington (Song of Songs), Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson, Angela Bassett (Esther), Tyler Perry, LL Cool J (Samson), Tyrese Gibson, Terry Crews, Eartha Kitt (Serpent), Common, Tia and Tamera Mowry, Vanessa Williams, Keke Palmer, Forest Whitaker (Moses), and featuring Samuel L. Jackson as God in the New Testament, bring the stories and lessons of the Bible to life.

Honored with a nomination for an NAACP Image Award, this complete dramatized audio Bible has been grateful to also be awarded the 2007 Audies Audiobook of the Year (highest honor of the Audio Publisher’s Association) and an AudioFile Earphones Award.

New: Now includes an interactive table of contents with books and chapters of the Bible for easy audio navigation!*

Features:

  • Complete dramatized audio Bible
  • Over 400 world-class talents, including Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Blair Underwood, Angela Bassett, Common, LL Cool J, Samuel L. Jackson, Alfre Woodard, LeVar Burton, Idris Elba, and Terry Crews, among others
  • Original music by the Prague Symphony Orchestra

Cast Includes…

Yolanda Adams, Paul Adefarasin, Erika Alexander, Tichina Arnold, James Avery, Obba Babatunde, Ogie Banks III, Angela Bassett, Ivory Belk, Eric Benét, Ahmed Best, John Bentley, Bishop Charles Blake, KD Bowe, Yvette Lee Bowser, James “JB” Brown, Wren T. Brown, LeVar Burton, Marcus Byrd, Ron Canada, Willie Carpenter, TC Carson, CCH Pounder, Alvin Chea, Common, Jill Conners, Terry Crews, De Mann, Cedric Dent, Alex Désert, Loretta Devine, Gary Dourdan, Karim Dulé Hill,Donna DuPlantier, Charles S. Dutton, Idris Elba, Faith Evans, Dustin Felder, Aurora Ferlin, Kirk Franklin, Matt Gibson, Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good, Cuba Gooding Jr., April Grace, Khamani Griffin, Eva Gutierrez, Regina Hall, Anthony Hamilton, Leonard Harmon, Hill Harper, Heavy D, Taraji P. Henson, Russell Hornsby, Israel Houghton, Alexis Fields Jackson, Kevin C. Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, Bishop T.D. Jakes, Juanita Jennings, Rhomeyn Johnson, Bishop Noel Jones, Joseph Jay Jones, Priscilla Jones, Star Jones, Malcolm David Kelley, Joey Kibble, Mark Kibble, Eartha Kitt, Boris Kodjoe, Nikki Kodjoe, Eriq La Salle, Sanaa Lathan, Adam Lazarre-White, Harry J. Lennix, Leon, Dawnn Lewis, Felicia Lister, , LL Cool J, Shana Lloyd, Bishop Eddie L. Long, Nia Long, Victor Love, Antonio David Lyons, Tisha Campbell Martin, Donnie McClurkin, R.L. McCray, Gwen McGee, Claude McKnight, Mo’Nique, Tia and Tamera Mowry, Lana “MC Lyte” Moorer, Debbie Morgan, Tommy Morgan, Garrett Morris, Phil Morris, Keke Palmer, Evan Parke, Danita Patterson, Tyler Perry, Sandra Prosper, Darryl Alan Reed, Doran Reed, Robi Reed, Tim Reid, Corey Reynolds, LaTanya Richardson, Bumper Robinson, Shaun Robinson, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Rodney Saulsberry, Kelvin Shepard, David Smallwood, Nancy Sprow, Mark E. Swinton, David Thomas, Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer, Blair Underwood, Blake Underwood, Brielle Underwood, Kamden Underwood, Khloe Underwood, Paris Underwood, Iyanla Vanzant, Denzel Washington, Pauletta Washington, Tico Wells, Forest Whitaker, Deniece Williams, Ellis Williams, Vanessa Williams, Mirron Willis, Pastor Marvin Winans, Alfre Woodard, Jeffrey Wright, Marvin Wright-Bey, and more.

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Top reviews from the United States

Holly H
5.0 out of 5 stars Audio CD vs. MP3 Formats
Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2009
The excellent content is well-documented in other reviews; I just wanted to comment on the format so that others can make a decision of which version to order. This set comes on 79 audio disks (in a nice zipper case); 60 CDs for the Old Testament and 19 CDs for the New Testament recorded from the Today's New International Version (TNIV) of the Bible. Each CD "song" is one chapter in the Bible, labeled by book and chapter, making it fairly easy to find specific passages on an MP3 player or digital CD player. Each entry is about 2-8 minutes long so each disk holds about 10-15 chapters. Only the beginning of each Book is announced on the CD, not chapter or verse, and no subject headings are given (since headings were added to the biblical text by publishers, this is a good thing.) It does mean that it is difficult to know where you are at in the Bible by just listening unless you know the text well. The exception is the book of Psalms, where each Psalm is announced. The book names are given as the simple titles as they are written in the TNIV, without the literary descriptions given in the Greek and most other English translations (Matthew, not the Gospel of Matthew; 1st Corinthians, not the First Epistle/Letter to the Corinthians). The readers did a great job with all the tough Old Testament names but then mispronounce the book of The Revelation as "revelations" - a common mistake but one that propogates the theological misunderstanding that the book records many oracles or visions instead of the one revelation of Jesus Christ given to John.

Each CD begins and ends with the same "Bible Experience Theme" which is quite annoying to have 150+ times on my iPod. It also breaks into the middle of the narrative in a book since not every book begins on a new CD. Simple enough to uncheck the theme when loading each CD. There are also worship songs that split chapters in the Epistles of Paul - nice to have the music, but not the best locations for it. Although it took a while to load 79 disks onto my computer and download to an iPod, this still seems to be a much better format than the MP3 version which I understand is segmented into big chunks of the Bible that all come with the same label.

I will say that the canticles (songs in the narrative) and psalms came to life when the speaker's poetic rhythm suddenly breaks into song. It really brings the text alive in new ways. Very, very nice to have such a great audio version of the Bible from which to listen to God's Word.
cottonballmama
5.0 out of 5 stars Motivational
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2024
I don't always have time for my morning study, so I appreciate hearing the Word while on the go. Songs enhance many of the scriptures, but towards the end of the Bible, I find myself skipping the music. If I wanted that much music, I'd switch to the radio.
TwilightGameNerd
5.0 out of 5 stars Auto Bible
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2024
Highly recommend
Sandra Hamer Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Sensational
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2024
I bought this for my Mom and she loves it.
Queen Zil
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and powerful! Do not hesitate to buy, but read the complete product description first.
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2018
I love this version of the Bible. And the audio is amazing. I read a lot of reviews today although I have had this for many many years. I do not understand the poor reviews. I have this on an old-fashioned CD package so I can't address the MP3 issues that people are having but I certainly can address the content. While I agree that the theme song gets tiring I just skip that, it is an introduction at the beginning of every CD or the beginning of every book. I feel the passion that the readers have and it inspires me to passion and often brings me to tears! One review stated that the person could not understand the words being read because of dialect, that's difficult for me to accept. Every word is clearly spoken.
I believe if people would read the Complete product description there would be no misconceptions about what they are buying. It tells you what version of scripture you are getting, and at least on my package it tells me who all the actors are who are portraying the biblical characters. Admittedly I looked at this in a brick-and-mortar store first.
THEN BUY THIS AND MOST IMPORTANTLY - LISTEN TO IT... ALL!
Candy Stevenson London
5.0 out of 5 stars The Bible Experience
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2024
Best Mother’s Day gift to myself.
Linette Hawkins
5.0 out of 5 stars Gift
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024
Bought it for a friend and he said that he enjoys it a lot.
Mitzie
4.0 out of 5 stars MUCH of it is extremely well done
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2019
Were it not for the CONS that I will describe in a moment, this would be the best audio version of the bible that I've ever heard. Hands down. Some of the reading is beyond excellent. It's so good, that even though I read the bible every day, I hear it still more plainly and with what seems to be new instruction and even greater clarity and understanding after hearing it on this recording. For that reason, it's easy to listen to large portions of the bible in one sitting and without becoming distracted. It's wonderful.

Nevertheless, there are some serious CONS. The two big ones are: 1) Music (even boisterous music at times that upsets the flow of the reading) is injected in the most undesirable places throughout much of the New Testament. I mean, WHY?? It's very disruptive. 2) Scripture is sometimes read OUT OF ORDER. This one is hard to explain, but 2 Timothy is a good example. It's a MESS. 2 Timothy 1 is read, then MUSIC is played IN PLACE OF 2 Timothy 2:1-13. Then AFTER 2 Timothy 2:26 (the LAST verse of 2 Timothy 2), it goes BACK to 2 Timothy 2:1!! After reading through verse 13 this time, the music starts up again.

So, there are definitely problems with this recording. They seem to me to be editing issues. The music just makes a mess of things and probably contributed to some of the other problems as well, but the READING for the most part is superb. Those who do not read as well really stand out (unfortunately), but those readings are minimal.

I'm still listening to this audiobook even with its annoyances as mentioned above, so that should tell you how good MOST of it is. :) I would love a new and improved edition without the negligent flaws. It just seems the Producer (or whoever is responsible for the final production and editing) dropped the ball on this otherwise fabulous piece of work. What a shame.

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