This is about the kindle version!) ... Of course, the contents are, in general, excellent and substantial. This review is not about that. It's about how this e-book does not take much advantage of the possibilities offered by the electronic format. 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 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.

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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. At the beginning of each book, you get a very detailed, literary, historical, and theological criticism. This is useful in understanding the context, which is imperative when reading The Bible appropriately. I heard someone say in my youth that even if the Bible is not the divine word of God, it is still the best guide going to living your life. While it may be difficult to see this is the Old Testament, it does serve to establish a context for the "new" message of the New Testament. While others complain of the navigation issues, I find navigation pretty standard for Kindle edition. Sure, it would be great if each chapter of each book appeared in the table of contents, but the links in the text obviate the need for this.

It seems that often in the Western tradition the Bible is held to a different standard. As with the other great works it was written by man. Never mind the argument that if it were divinely inspired it would be "perfect." If you you believe in divine inspiration, you can imagine rationalizations providing for God to leave it imperfect. If you don't believe, well, you get what you have.

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This book was terrible. The characters are two dimensional, the plot is all over the place and the author can't keep his story straight. Then halfway through they just introduce a new protagonist out of nowhere who dies within 4 chapters and they spend the rest of the book trying to work out what his deal was.I wanted to preface this by saying I'm going to be reading the Bible and Qur'an parallel to each other for academic and philosophical reasons. I've been interested in Abrahamic religions and want to start somewhere. In no way am I doing this for religious reasons, but purely because I want to understand theism. I was raised in a pseudo-Christian setting where on the surface level, everyone pretended to be Christian but really were undecided and ultimately didn't think. Perhaps this brought some comfort to the ancient Hebrews, but reading it from beginning to end as a modern person just makes being one of God’s chosen people seem like a bad deal. This humanist approach also applies to the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV), the text used by the NOAB. Praise be to Allah that all the blather in so many "Christian" English editions, in which the translators express the hope that the results of their labours might convince the reader to believe what they believe, is absent. (I suspect that such material usually means that some ideologically-driven mistranslation is going on, which is what the New International Version has been criticised for.) No, the introduction ("To the Reader") to the NRSV simply outlines the process by which it was carried out and the principles used, as if it were a translation of The Song of Roland. How refreshing. At last I feel the scales lifting from my eyes and the light of reason and common sense dawning. And a couple of the NOAB's essays aren't afraid to call out errors in the NRSV translation, either. At least in translation, most of the poetry is not compelling and most of the stories are boring. The morals are terrible; virtually everyone in the Bible is a terrible person, even the protagonists. The amount of violence is horrific, and is often treated by the narrative as a good thing, when when it happens to the ’right people’.