Niv Slimline Study Bible This Bible incorporates all the features of the original "Study Bible": the complete NIV text; comprehensive study notes on each page, explaining words, concepts and difficult verses, together with textual and historical background information; outlines of each book; five essays on specific subjects; and the NIV cross-reference system and concor... more »dance with 35,000 entries. The book is bound in calfskin leather. Kenneth Barker is the author of "The Making of Contemporary Translation".« less