Vintage The New Chain Reference Bible Thompson KJV 1934 Kirkbride Softcover

Description: Vintage The New Chain Reference Bible Thompson KJV 1934 Kirkbride Softcover (inv661) In 1981 I admired Ted Manzke's brand new TCRB. Ted and Marion are the finest 2 people I have ever known. With that Ted gave it to me. They have long passed, but I think about them often. I look forward to seeing them in eternity. Bible, Frank Charles Thompson was a young preacher in the late 1800s when he became disappointed with the reference Bibles being used by preachers. Dr. Thompson received his PhD from Boston University and began his ministry in a Methodist church in western New York i in the late 1800s. He believed Bible study tools should be presented in a simple but scholarly way. He saw the need for a well-organ ized r reference Bible that would be of practical use to the lay reader as well as to preachers. In 1890, Dr. Thompson began the work that would continue for the rest of his life. He completed a series of "thought suggestions" oppo opposite key verses throughout the Bible. These became the "chain links" that comprise the heart of the Thompson system. Some in Dr. T Thompson's church saw his Bible and told him this would be a great help to them in their Bible study too. They encouraged Dr. ThomThompson to have his Bible, with its extensive marginal references, published so that everyone could benefit of this system. In 1908, the first edition of the TCRB was printed. Dr. Thompson gave the franchise for distributing the Bible to a firm in Lincoln, Nebr Nabraska, who hired a young college student named B.B. Kirkbride to sell this work. Kirkbride eventually acquired the rights to sell and d distribute the Bible, and as his business grew, he organized and handled several crews of agents working in such cities as Buffalo, Atlant Atlanta, and St. Louis. He eventually established the B.B. Kirkbride Company in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1915. As Mr. Kirkbride and his team hand-sold the Chain-Reference Bible, they also asked each minister or student about other tools that would help them in their Bible study. In this way, the features of the TCRB were expanded over time, with new chain-reference information a nd s study tools added in each new edition. Under the management of family members, a completed numbering of all the marginal refer nces throughout the OT was finished in 1964, thus finalizing the numbering system. After Dr. Thompson’s death in 1940, his work and legacy continued with several major updates and enhancement. Over time and through four generations of family, the curators of the TCRB at B.B. Kirkbride and Company worked with other English and global-languages publishers to release the notes and study helps in various Bible editions. Their work included working with then family-owned Zondervan Bible Publishers to release the first NIV edition in 1983. In 2020, the Thompson Chain-Reference Bible assets were sold to Zondervan.

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