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

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And, to make certain points in the text clearer for the reader, there are approximately 40 in-text, line drawing maps and diagrams. Greeley 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.

These essays are both substantial enough in themselves and of sufficient quantity to warrant separate publication in their own right as a collection. Not only great commentary but really gives you the context of the scriptures by setting up historical settings, customs, etc. While the teachings of the Bible were revolutionary in the protection they gave to slaves, women, etc.You will therefore find such works as 3 and 4 Maccabees and Psalm 151 as well as the apocrypha accepted only by the Roman Catholics that you sometimes find in Bibles "with Apocrypha". Especially interesting were the parts explaining how the Bible was composed, explaining the many different versions of it and why they exist, and the difficulty of translating from an ancient semitic language without vowels. The Holy Bible is the Word of God for the people of God, whose task it is to bear witness to the work of God in the world. As others have noted, while this fifth edition of the NOAB is a big improvement over the fourth edition in being more than just a pdf copy (and so can be read on a Kindle e-ink device as well as in the Kindle app), it has a significant flaw, making that improvement of less value than it should have been.

The other irritating oddity with the Kindle version is the big change in font size between the text of the Bible and the hyperlinked notes to verses of the Bible, shown in the attached photos.As with other annotations, it provides ongoing commentary about what passages mean, their context, and their function. Speaking of violence: most of the victims of God’s wrath, especially in the old testament are the Jews themselves. The site's copy of the Book of Mormon adds two new icons, one for plagiarism of passages from the King James Bible and one for Changes from the original 1830 version. This is a great bible - the notes at the bottom of each page explain the difficult to understand parts of the readings. There are extensive footnotes on every page, explaining unfamiliar words and concepts, citing other scriptures where the ideas in the current verse appear, and commenting upon the scripture itself.

Even so, I own the printed version of the Hebrew Bible (Biblia Hebraica Suttgartensia) so I have the necessary vorlage to check on the translation for it's accuracy if necessary. I've been taking more of a deep dive this year than usual and have been doing my reading (most of it, anyway) with a few different versions rather than my usual King James version. The thing about it that in my view makes it almost unusable is the lack of ease when it comes to trying to find a passage. The deuterocanonical books are used by the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek and Slavonic Orthodox Churches, as well as churches of the Anglican Communion (including the Episcopal Church). 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.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. Also I came away with a new appreciation for the wisdom and literature in some of the minor Old Testament books and even more so the Apocrypha.