Introductory essays on major groups of biblical writings - Pentateuch, Prophets, Gospels, and other sections - give readers an overview that guides more intensive study. Again, I would love to see an update of this with all verse references/cross-references hyperlinked, like in the NABRE noted above, and with improved navigation, with a real table of contents including links for individual chapters within books.

The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha, New Revised

It was my first time reading the New Testament through (I read the Old Testament in a different book, The Jewish Study Bible) and I think this edition does a great job of providing the right amount of information--the annotations are helpful and easy to access without being overwhelming. 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. It also makes it as ecumenical as possible - almost any Christian tradition can feel comfortable using this Bible.So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite. is exactly what a study Bible like this is supposed to be for - if you want to do that, you may be happier getting the paper version of this. Use this code: to quote any biblical passage you wish! OUP really should be updated to take advantage of and utilize the possibilities, presently mostly latent, offered by the electronic format. At last I can find out what the relevant experts are saying - or NOT saying - on a particular topic, and thus to find out what we know and (just as importantly) don't know about such things as the process by which the canon now known as the Hebrew Bible or Tanakh was composed, compiled, edited and redacted - i.

Oxford Annotated Bible-RSV (Revised Standard Version New Oxford Annotated Bible-RSV (Revised Standard Version

Some verses you touch the verse number and a pane comes up in the bottom 1/3 of the screen with the commentary/note. I simply don't think I could get up in front of a group of people and intelligently discuss the Bible if I did not have this book. If you you believe in divine inspiration, you can imagine rationalizations providing for God to leave it imperfect. My man, Dan McClellan, who is the scripture translation supervisor for the LDS Church, recommended most of these. 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 understand the desire to have it all in one volume, but I wish a large-print edition was available, even if the physical book itself were much larger.

The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised

the soundness of whose empirical and logical basis is in inverse proportion to the frequency of its repetition. It is a very nicely done kindle book, with excellent navigation, links where you would expect them, fully functional table of contents, chapter links at the start of books, etc.

I'm agnostic and way more spiritual - in fact I'm more in tune with the spiritual ancestry of my Maori forefathers and believe in the interconnectedness of humanity. We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. After a couple of months I added this edition of the NRSV, after a few more months I was reading this version exclusively. I'm definitely open to people's thoughts - I'm more interested here in the psychology and archetypes of religion than the content itself - I'm not here to indulge people who wish to convert me to anything, but I don't mind hearing your ideas on teachings at all.