Tyndale House Publishers is releasing the Christian retail-exclusive Operation Worship Bible: Homefront Edition this month. More than 500,000 copies of Operation Worship editions were sent to the troops last year. Now available as a gift for wives, mothers, sisters and friends of the troops, the new pink camouflage compact edition includes a four-page insert, with blank pages for writing notes or prayers, the New Living Translation text (NLT) and a topical index. The Operation Worship Bible: Homefront Edition will retail for $5.99.
Thomas Nelson is releasing a newly designed and updated second edition of The Woman's Study Bible, NKJV this month. The revised edition includes a new cover and more study notes and features, including new articles on Bible study by Anne Graham Lotz, Nancy Leigh DeMoss and Stormie Omartian. Additional features include two-color text throughout, a presentation page with family tree and memory pages, detailed Bible character portraits of more than 100 women, maps, charts, topical index and concordance. The updated edition is available in a LeatherSoft pink and brown cover for $69.99 suggested retail.
A softcover edition of the Green Bible releases this month from Harper Bibles, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Using the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), the Bible uses green highlighted text to emphasize the topic of creation care in the Scriptures. It also includes a green topical index, a Green Bible trail guide for personal study and essays from theologians and conservationists. The softcover Green Bible will retail for $24.99. Tyndale is adding to its Girls Life Application Study Bible offerings with a new LeatherLike Glittery Grape Butterfly edition this month. Based on the best-selling Life Application Study Bible, the Bible is designed to answer questions girls have about God and life, featuring articles such as "What Now?," "I Survived!," "Amazing Facts" Bible trivia, "At a Glance" stories of biblical women and "Is It OK?," centering on questions of faith. Additional features include a two-color interior with 16 pages of full-color illustrations about Bible times, book introductions and timelines, charts and 3-D maps. The new version of the girl's Bible will retail for an introductory price of $29.97.
Hebrew and Greek Bibles are combined in A Reader's Hebrew and Greek Bible, releasing from Zondervan in April. Definitions for lesser-used Hebrew and Greek words appear as footnotes on every page, allowing for quick reading. Other features include the complete text of the Hebrew and Aramaic Bible using the Leningrad Codex; Greek text under the Today's New International Version (TNIV) translation with footnotes on differences from the United Bible Society 4th edition Greek New Testament text; shaded Hebrew names that occur less than 100 times; lexicons of all Hebrew words occurring more than 100 times and Greek words occurring more than 30 times; and eight pages of full-color maps. The combined edition will release in black European Leather for $74.99. 
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