Seinfeld star Jason Alexander is one of more than 300 actors featured in The Word of Promise Old Testament, a 62-CD set releasing Sept. 15 from Thomas Nelson. Others include Jim Caviezel, Richard Dreyfuss, Jon Voight, Marcia Gay Harden and Gary Sinise in the follow-up to 2007’s The Word of Promise New Testament, named “Christian Book of the Year” by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. The Bible is presented with sound effects and orchestration, using the New King James Version. The new release completes The Word of Promise Audio Bible, a 72-CD set that involved 20,000-30,000 man hours and 1,000 distinct acting roles. A bonus features DVD will accompany all of the products, which include The Word of Promise Old Testament for $84.99, The Word of Promise Audio Bible for $124.99 and the 11-CD set The Word of Promise MP3 Audio Bible for $69.99.

Warren Wiersbe, author of the popular "Be" devotional series, served as general editor for The Transformation Study Bible, which will release Sept. 1 from David C. Cook. The study Bible includes Catalyst notes—about 150 words for each book—discussing important themes of Scripture, along with approximately 13,200 Be Transformed notes, book overviews, book outlines, cross references, charts and maps, a concordance and approximately 10,000 expository notes. It will release in a personal edition softcover for $24.99, hardcover for $39.99, bonded leather in black or dark brown for $69.99 each, and bonded leather in black or dark brown with thumb indexing for $79.99 each.

A travel edition of the GoBible is to release next month. The GoBible Traveler is a lightweight, hand-held portable device preloaded with the entire Bible in more than 70 hours of audio. The Bible features an interactive on-screen menu allowing users to scroll through the Old and New Testaments while selecting which book and chapter to play. It can support up to 36 bookmarks to flag passages to return to as well as a "Bible-in-a-year," dividing the Bible into 365 listening sessions of 12-15 minutes each. The GoBible is offered in English in either the King James Version read by Alexander Scourby or the New International Version read by Charles Taylor. Each version will retail for $59.95.

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