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. 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; 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'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. I'm incredibly tired of being shunned from discourse of theism due to Christian family saying I know nothing of the Bible and Qur-an - and thus cannot defend Islamic individuals or criticise Christian ones in their eyes The first edition of the New Oxford Annotated Bible (NOAB) was published in 1973, employing the RSV text. [2] [3] 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. The NRSV was also the basis of the third edition (2001), edited by Dr. Michael Coogan, which is considered to be much more ecumenical in approach. For example, it calls the Old Testament the "Hebrew Bible" out of consideration to Jewish readers. [7]

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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.After consulting Abrahamic religions I will move onto others. I come from a country with a melting pot of religious beliefs, from ancestry worship, to Hinduism to Christianity etc. South Africa definitely benefits you in that way. What I liked: The historical essays leading off each book, section and Athens are simply outstanding. Many I read multiple times. Only word of warning here is that hey we obviously written by different authors. Occasionally they do conflict or offer repetitive information. Over-all, I found these essays critical in understanding what I was reading from both a historical and literary perspective. Likewise, the notes accompanying the text are thorough, enlightening and informative. Also I came away with a new appreciation for the wisdom and literature in some of the minor Old Testament books and even more so the Apocrypha. 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). 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. From twenty years old and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel: thou and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

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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.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 - The 1973 edition of The New Oxford Annotated Bible (NOAB), based on the Revised Standard Version (RSV) text.

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Countless students, professors and general readers alike have relied upon The New Oxford Annotated Bible for essential scholarship and guidance to the world of the Bible. Now the Augmented Third Edition adds to the established reputation of this premier academic resource. A wealth of new 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.English Bible translations fall somewhere along a continuum between a woodenly literal rendition and a free, or liberal, style. An example of the former is the venerable King James Version with its flowery 17th-c. language, and the modern-sounding "The Message," as rendered by its translator, Eugene Peterson. The present work is an attempt to update the RSV. On the above-referenced continuum it falls between the KJV and the New International Version (NIV), the latter an attempt to strike a judicious balance between word-for-word literalism and a paraphrase. 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. 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.