This book is three things in one. First, it’s the Apocrypha, the scriptures that the Catholic bible includes but the protestant bible doesn’t. Whatever your allegiance these writings are overflowing with ancient history, wisdom, theology and good story telling. I’m amazed how my fellow protestants ignore it even though many of the earliest Christians read it, refer to it and some even included it in the Christian canon. Secondly, this is a reproduction of the Apocrypha section of the Geneva Bible, a landmark translation that predated and heavily influenced the King James Bible. So even the English translation presented here has real historical value. Thirdly this particular edition is the only one I can find (checked a lot of previews and samples) that offers the Apocrypha section of the Geneva Bible in full paragraphs and full pages. It presents like a conventional narrative. Those are the only versions of the New Testament I read nowadays, ones that look like a book, not like a religious primer. It preserves the traditional verse numbering but doesn’t break each verse into a new paragraph and there are no columns, which most of the other versions have. In addition, this editon has some magnificent drawings that illustrate beautifully the action of the Apocrypha.