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

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The pages feel much thinner than any of my other Bibles, which is likely needed to accommodate so many pages (this is not just standard protestant Bible, but includes Apocrypha and a good number of essays, study guides, etc.

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While in many cases I remain fond of the more traditional translations, the NRSV attempts to be more exact and faithful to the original text, and that makes it helpful for personal study (though not necessarily for liturgical use). I found that the study guides and essays in this particular Bible are at a much more intellectual level and take a lot of concentration to truly understand.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. Now the Bereans were more noble-minded than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if these teachings were true. General essays on history, translation matters, different canons in use today, and issues of daily life in biblical times inform the reader of important aspects of biblical study. This is my favourite translation of the Bible and also my preferred study Bible but the kindle edition is what I am referring to in this review. At the beginning of each book, you get a very detailed, literary, historical, and theological criticism.

The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised

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. As it is now, it's nicely formatted, but it only very minimally takes advantage of the possibilities of the electronic format - the main issue is navigability. The bible text here is in a font which is very readable, better than many Bible editions, but the study materials, footnotes and essays are in a desperately tiny font.

I felt that I had probably read the whole thing, almost certainly the New Testament, but with-out the context or continuity.

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students, including single column annotations at the foot of the pages, in-text background essays, charts, and maps, a page number-keyed index of all the study materials in the volume, and Oxford's renowned Bible maps. 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. Use this code: to quote any biblical passage you wish! 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. 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.Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Use of the title 'Old Testament' for those books here designated as 'the Hebrew Bible' is confined to instances expressing the historical view of various Christian interpreters. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in.

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In general the New Oxford Annotated Bible avoids this sort of interpretation, focusing instead on drawing out the historical context, linguistics, and literary structure of the text. Unfortunately I still can't see how decent, normal, intelligent people can fall for what is inside it's far too numerous pages. 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.I bought this for the broad minded ecumenical approach of the study elements, the essays etc rather than the specific translation. I admit that I skimmed some parts, and by the middle the only thing that kept me going through to the end was bragging rights; being able to say that I have in fact read the whole thing. After the release of the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible in 1989, OUP published a second edition of the NOAB based on that translation. I've been discovering far more about the Bible since I became an atheist than I ever did when I was a fundamentalist Christian. After a couple of months I added this edition of the NRSV, after a few more months I was reading this version exclusively.