Martin Manser has just completed six years as Managing Editor of Hodder & Stoughton's new NIV Thematic Study Bible. Here he gives a personal view of his work.
Just then the phone rang. Actually, I wasn't working as I had excruciating earache. It had rung a few minutes before with a request to write an article for a magazine. Now it was ringing again and Dick Douglas, director of Hodder & Stoughton's Religious Division, was on the phone asking if I'd go to London to see him . . . on such occasions it seems that initially only the briefest details of the project are given.
A few weeks later found me in Dick's basement office in Bedford Square, London, and he spilled the beans: they were planning to extend their range of NIV Bibles by developing a topical study Bible. Was I interested in pulling the whole thing together? Yes, I was - no doubt the answer came after a few 'arrow prayers'.
