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The Berean Annotated Bible is under construction for both the New and Old Testaments, and will be a helpful tool for readers, students, teachers, and pastors alike. The translation uses the BSB as a base, and is designed to bring out the full meaning, intensity, and clarity of the original Greek and Hebrew sources. Coogan, Michael D., ed. (2018). New Oxford Annotated Bible (5thed.). p.xiv. ISBN 9780190276119. In keeping with the general desire to take account of the diversity of the users of this study Bible, the editors have adopted two widely‐accepted conventions: referring to the first portion of the text as 'the Hebrew Bible,' since it is a collection preserved by the Jewish community and that is how Jews regard it; and citing all dates in the notes as BCE or CE ('Before the Common Era' and 'Common Era') instead of BC or AD ('Before Christ' and 'Anno Domini' ['in the year of the Lord']), which imply a Christian view of the status of Jesus of Nazareth. 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.
The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised
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The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version
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. This is the home of RationalWiki's Annotated Bible. The text used is the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, which at ~400 years old is now safely in the public domain, except in the UK. All of the books in the KJV version of the Old Testament were originally written in Hebrew except for Ezra and Daniel, which were written in Hebrew and Aramaic; other canons have additional text from Aramaic and Greek. [1] The New Testament was originally written in Koine Greek. [2] Table of Contents [ edit ] Speaking of violence: most of the victims of God’s wrath, especially in the old testament are the Jews themselves. The book is an endless repetition of the same cycle of abuse: the Jews do something that makes God angry -> God dispatches some terrible punishment on them, like a foreign army that kills or enslaves the Jews -> after a while the Jews repent and make up with God, who saves them from the very problems he’s put them in -> all is good for a while, until the Jews break God’s rules once more and the cycle begins again. The sections on "injustice," "family values," "cruelty and violence," and "women" fail to account for an important concept—the Bible was written to reform our souls, not our societies. While the teachings of the Bible were revolutionary in the protection they gave to slaves, women, etc., some of the commands and statements seem brutal and unjust to our modern minds. God "breathed out" the Bible in an ancient culture. God approached the sins of man from the "inside out." If a man comes into a relationship with God, God will reform his heart, teach him to love, to respect, to forgive. Yes, some of the laws in the Bible seem brutal and primitive, but if a person had a genuine relationship with God, the laws would not even be necessary.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. Despite how ancient the text is, new discoveries continue to be made; the NSRV fifth edition is only five years old. Bible scholarship is a very interesting field, even - or even especially if - you’re not a believer. I really recommend Bart D. Ehrman’s work if you’re interested in the origins of the Bible and Christianity. 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. (I read the fifth edition.) It really would have been difficult to understand anything without the context that these essays gave to the text. Now for simple reading pleasure, instead of The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha, I do in fact still very much prefer the King James Bible, which we actually read at school for grade seven English (the Old Testament) and for grade eight English (the New Testament) and thus in the early 1980s. But I also and really do have to wonder if in today's world, reading the King James Bible in a secular type of school setting would even be deemed as acceptable and as appropriate (although indeed, our perusal in English class was always completely and totally based on seeing and approaching the King James Bible as a work of literature, as a work of fiction, and not ever as religious dogma). The New Oxford Annotated Bible: New Revised Standard Version : 5 stars. Enjoyed the commentary and also the historical context here as well. The best structure and really liked that they included the Apocrypha.