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

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So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail Nabal's wife the Carmelite. Like the ESV (a longtime favorite of mine), the NRSV is a descendant of the RSV, belonging on the formal equivalence end of the translation spectrum. However, the NRSV uses gender neutral language more often than does the ESV, and it is less tied to previous traditions of translation. For example, whereas the ESV keeps the classic rendering of Psalm 23 - "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. … I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever" - the NRSV rendering of Psalm 23:4 is: "Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I fear no evil. ... I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long." Similarly for Genesis 1, the ESV has, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters," whereas the NRSV has, "In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters." 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). It is the purpose of this article to point out the fallacies behind the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible. First, we commend the Skeptic’s Annotated Bible for giving the "Good Stuff" section - I also don't think it's fair to read something that dissects principles from specific religions before I am familiarised by the text itself.

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The new testament is just a fraud; it was written by Greeks pretending to be Hebrew-speaking Israelites, trying to convert the Jews to their new religion. Some of the philosophy seems to be inspired by Plato, to the point some lines are copied word for word. Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;I’m not going to rate this book. Despite the fact that the Bible itself is not great, I’m sure the translators worked really hard and did a good job, so I don’t want to leave a bad rating. Leaving a good rating doesn’t feel right either because it’s an awful book. 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. 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. These narratives were likely a way for the Jews to explain, why they seemed to be constantly the victims of terrible events, like being conquered by foreign empires or being enslaved, despite being the chosen people of the one and only God. Rather than their victimization being a sign that their God was too weak to protect them, these calamities were actually punishments from God himself; therefore, their God is actually in control of everything all the time, and they WILL be saved by him, as long as they follow his rules. There were a few parts that I enjoyed; especially the book of Job and Ecclesiastes. Job’s lamentation in the depths of his suffering was about the only thing that touched me emotionally, and Ecclesiastes was somewhat interesting, if only because the philosophy is so different from the rest of the Bible.

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This is perhaps the ultimate English study Bible for thinking persons and fearless believers. Although I treasure my old KJV and Rheimes-Douay, the NOAB 4th Edition is the best biblical investment I've ever made. If I'd had this Bible twenty years ago, I need never to have bought another. Herbert G. May, 73, Biblical Scholar". The New York Times Archives. New York. The New York Times Company. 11 October 1977. p.38 . Retrieved 4 March 2020.

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The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Revised Standard Version, Expanded Ed". Oxford University Press . Retrieved 29 December 2014. 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). I have read some negative comments complaining of historical inaccuracies and continuity problems in this work. Talk about missing the point! The Bible Is truly a monumental achievement of literature (and to many of us) of spirituality. It begs to be appreciated on either level or even better on both. Other classical works of literature (Homer, Beowulf, Gilgamesh and The Arabian Nights amongst others), history (Herodotus, Thucydides, Eusebius, Plutarch all come mind), philosophy (Plato, Aristotle) and religion (Koran and Bhagavad-Gita) display similar inconsistencies yet we would be at best considered intellectually deficient to reject these works. At worst we would be seen as culturally insensitive.

The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised

Study Bible published by the Oxford University Press The 2001 edition of The New Oxford Annotated Bible, with the NRSV text A fully revised Fourth Edition was released in May 2010. It contains new color maps and updated essays and commentaries. As always, versions with and without the Apocrypha were made available. 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. The first edition of the OAB, edited by Rev. Dr. Herbert G. May and Dr. Bruce M. Metzger was published in 1962, based on the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the Bible. [1] [2] [3] In 1965, OUP published a matching edition of the deuterocanonical and apocryphal books as well as a version of the OAB including them. [2] 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). In the same year, the OAB received the official imprimatur of Cardinal Richard Cushing for use by Roman Catholics as a study Bible. [4] [3] [5] Later, the NOAB was also warmly welcomed by Orthodox leaders. [6]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.