After Chapters and Verses: Engaging the Bible in the Coming Generations. This item is unavailable.After Chapters and Verses: Engaging the Bible in the Coming Generations

After Chapters and Verses traces the history of the features that were added over time to the Bible such as chapter and verse numbers, section headings and study notes. It shows how these features get in the way of our understanding the Scriptures, and it explains how the International Bible Society (now Biblica) designed a new format to remove these roadblocks to reading and comprehension.

The book also looks to the future, showing how we can read, study, preach, and teach the Bible more meaningfully and effectively by engaging its books the way their authors originally intended.

The Rev. Dr. Christopher R. Smith is a writer and biblical scholar who lives in East Lansing, Michigan. He pastored local churches for nearly twenty years and was a consulting editor to the International Bible Society (now Biblica) for The Books of the Bible, an edition of the Scriptures that presents the biblical books according to their natural literary outlines, without chapters and verses. He is also the author of the volumes in the Understanding the Books of the Bible study guide series. He is a volunteer campus staff worker with Graduate InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Michigan State University. He has a B.A. in literature from Harvard, a master's degree in theological studies from Gordon-Conwell, and a Ph.D. in historical theology and Bible from Boston College. He has published articles in journals such as New Testament Studies, Novum Testamentum, and The Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. He answers questions from users of his study guides on his Wordpress blog, "Understanding the Books of the Bible."