About: Thru the Bible

From Preface:

The radio broadcasts of the Thru the Bible Radio five–year program were transcribed, edited, and published first in single–volume paperbacks to accommodate the radio audience. From the beginning there was a demand that they be published in a more permanent form and in fewer volumes. This new hardback edition is an attempt to meet that need.

There has been a minimal amount of further editing in this publication. Therefore, these messages are no the word–for–word recording of the taped messages which went out over the air. The changes were necessary to accommodate a reading audience rather than a listening audience.

These are popular messages, prepared originally for a radio audience. They should not be considered a commentary on the entire Bible in any sense of that term. These messages are devoid of any attempt to present a theological or research and study in order to interpret the Bible from a popular rather than from a scholarly (and too–often boring) viewpoint.

We have definitely and deliberately attempted “to put the cookies on the bottom shelf so that the kiddies could get them.”

The fact that these messages have been translated into many languages for radio broadcasting and have been received with enthusiasm reveals the need for a simple teaching of the whole Bible for the masses of the world.

I am indebted to many people and to many sources for bringing this volume into existence. I should express my especial thanks to my secretary, Gertrude Cutler, who supervised the editorial work; to Dr. Elliott R. Cole, my associate, who handled all the detailed work with the publishers; and finally to my wife Ruth for tenaciously encouraging me from the beginning to put my notes and messages into printed form.

Solomon wrote, “…of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh” (Eccl. 12:12). On a sea of books that flood the marketplace, we launch the series of THRU THE BIBLE with the hope that it might draw many to the one Book, The Bible.

J. Vernon McGee