The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version

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I come from a country with a melting pot of religious beliefs, from ancestry worship, to Hinduism to Christianity etc.

Speaking of violence: most of the victims of God’s wrath, especially in the old testament are the Jews themselves. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Highly recommended is the oh so wonderfully inclusive and all encompassing The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha (but of course also more something rather specialised and for a particular type of reader). The New Oxford Annotated Bible, with twenty new essays and introductions and others―as well as annotations―fully revised, offers the reader flexibility for any learning style. What I liked: The historical essays leading off each book, section and Athens are simply outstanding.A volume that users will want to keep for continued reference, The New Oxford Annotated Bible continues the Oxford University Press tradition of providing excellence in scholarship for the general reader. And yes, the only reason why am am granting not five but only four stars to The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha is that trying to find specific Bible passages using the Kindle version (using this here version) of The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha is definitely not all that easy and sometimes indeed rather majorly frustrating (although I must say that considering that I do know how heavy and ridiculously unportable the non e-book version of The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha is, I am most certainly totally pleased to have, to own, the Kindle edition). Carol Newsom is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament, Candler School of Theology, Emory University. In the past my study Bibles have all had a major element of interpretation to them, overlaying centuries of Jewish and Christian theological reflection onto the text. A final note: the ecumenical NRSV, and consequently the NOAB, includes ALL the apocrypha used by the Roman Catholic and Orthodox (i.

I would highly recommend if you haven't already undertaken a similar project that you consider doing so. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The only consolation is that it's so big and heavy my wife sometimes uses it to press flowers, which is fine by me because I wouldn't lend this book to anyone. I've collected and discarded countless study Bibles over the past twenty years, from topical, devotional Bibles like the Life Application to hardcore scholarly Bibles like the NOAB 2nd Edition, and almost everything in between.However, the NRSV uses gender neutral language more often than does the ESV, and it is less tied to previous traditions of translation. The most interesting parts were not the text of the Bible itself, but the annotations, introductions and essays by the scholars and translators that worked on this edition.

Color maps give readers the geographical orientation they need for understanding historical accounts throughout the Bible. From reviews of the previous edition: "The New Oxford Annotated Bible with its excellent footnotes and concise introductory materials has a thoroughness and clarity that should prove invaluable to the lay reader and scholar alike. At first I've been disappointed a bit because it is not an anglicised version (I don't say it is a problem just personally I wished it was), however, in some minutes I forgot about that! While the teachings of the Bible were revolutionary in the protection they gave to slaves, women, etc.But I think the bible a hugely important text, as I do, say, the Divine Comedy, king Lear, The Brothers Karamatzov, to name but a few. By mid-May, I've finished the essays and reference materials in the back of the volume, and they are a model of scholarly compression and clear communication; very helpful. Goddidit" provides no more explanation for what the Bible says than it does for any secular literature.