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1ZombiekE
Hello,
I would like to read the Bible, however I would like to read it with a commentary, it might be an edition of the Bible with the commentary or a book about the Bible (then you can read the text in the Bible).
Is there a book you'd recommend? I am not looking for a book with a preaching tone, as many pages on the Internet have, just a book to study the Bible.
The book might be in English or Spanish.
Thanks beforehand.
I would like to read the Bible, however I would like to read it with a commentary, it might be an edition of the Bible with the commentary or a book about the Bible (then you can read the text in the Bible).
Is there a book you'd recommend? I am not looking for a book with a preaching tone, as many pages on the Internet have, just a book to study the Bible.
The book might be in English or Spanish.
Thanks beforehand.
2TLCrawford
The Jefferson Bible is Thomas Jefferson's annotation of the Bible.
3timspalding
The Oxford Annotated Bible has sparse, but informative annotations. Someone should definitely do something like what Strassler did for the Landmark Thucydides and Landmark Herodotus.
4Mr.Durick
I've used an Oxford annotated Bible. It is too sparse.
I particularly like The New Jerusalem Bible. You have to be sure to get the one with the blue dust jacket and complete notes, otherwise it is just another translation.
I also have and enjoy using the The New Interpreters Study Bible. The same company puts out a multivolume Bible of good repute.
The standard multivolume Bible is The Anchor Yale Bible. The other multivolume Bibles I have seen are too biased. You don't need any multivolume Bible unless you begin to specialize, but it is fun sometimes to look closely at a book of the Bible.
Oxford has a couple of handbooks on the Bible. Oxford Bible Commentary is one. The Oxford Companion to the Bible is another.
The Anchor Bible Dictionary is superb but big and expensive.
You might do best with a good study Bible and the internet.
The Jefferson Bible, of considerable historical interest, is not what you are looking for.
Robert
I particularly like The New Jerusalem Bible. You have to be sure to get the one with the blue dust jacket and complete notes, otherwise it is just another translation.
I also have and enjoy using the The New Interpreters Study Bible. The same company puts out a multivolume Bible of good repute.
The standard multivolume Bible is The Anchor Yale Bible. The other multivolume Bibles I have seen are too biased. You don't need any multivolume Bible unless you begin to specialize, but it is fun sometimes to look closely at a book of the Bible.
Oxford has a couple of handbooks on the Bible. Oxford Bible Commentary is one. The Oxford Companion to the Bible is another.
The Anchor Bible Dictionary is superb but big and expensive.
You might do best with a good study Bible and the internet.
The Jefferson Bible, of considerable historical interest, is not what you are looking for.
Robert
6Madcow299
The New Interpreters Study Bible is good
The Harper Collins Study Bible is excellent as well circa 2006 edition.
HarperCollins Bible Commentary is a one volume commentary for the whole bible. Cheaper than buying a set. Good stuff and not quite as dense,
The Lutheran Study Bible is also good. Written for your the average person in the pew. Leans more towards reflection in addition to study so not sure if its what you want.
Those are the volumes I have the most experience with.
As for a book on the bible. I don't know of just one :). I really enjoyed Mark Allen Powell's Fortress Introduction to the Gospels. He has an introduction to the new testament, but I haven't read it.
The Harper Collins Study Bible is excellent as well circa 2006 edition.
HarperCollins Bible Commentary is a one volume commentary for the whole bible. Cheaper than buying a set. Good stuff and not quite as dense,
The Lutheran Study Bible is also good. Written for your the average person in the pew. Leans more towards reflection in addition to study so not sure if its what you want.
Those are the volumes I have the most experience with.
As for a book on the bible. I don't know of just one :). I really enjoyed Mark Allen Powell's Fortress Introduction to the Gospels. He has an introduction to the new testament, but I haven't read it.
7CurrerBell
Give some consideration to the work of Raymond E. Brown, a Catholic priest who steered a middle course between "fundamentalism" and the more radical readings of exegetes like Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan, and the Jesus Seminar.
I've read The Birth of the Messiah, the two-volume The Death of the Messiah, and The Community of the Beloved Disciple and am enormously impressed by him.Although I've only skimmed through An Introduction to the New Testament, this is the more "generalist" of his works and might be the one that most suits your interest.
By way of background, I'm an ex-Catholic and presently a member of a very progressive bi-denominational congregation that is both Presbyterian (PCUSA) and United Church of Christ, with my own personal leanings being toward the congregationalism of the UCC. Considering my personal background, I really do think that my admiration for Brown has a fairly objective basis that isn't tinged by any denominational bias one way or the other.
Incidentally, a number of members of my own congregation are themselves ordained ministers, many of them women, and one of them (a Presbyterian minister and currently a seminary teacher) was personally acquainted with Brown and has a great deal of respect for him.
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I've read The Birth of the Messiah, the two-volume The Death of the Messiah, and The Community of the Beloved Disciple and am enormously impressed by him.Although I've only skimmed through An Introduction to the New Testament, this is the more "generalist" of his works and might be the one that most suits your interest.
By way of background, I'm an ex-Catholic and presently a member of a very progressive bi-denominational congregation that is both Presbyterian (PCUSA) and United Church of Christ, with my own personal leanings being toward the congregationalism of the UCC. Considering my personal background, I really do think that my admiration for Brown has a fairly objective basis that isn't tinged by any denominational bias one way or the other.
Incidentally, a number of members of my own congregation are themselves ordained ministers, many of them women, and one of them (a Presbyterian minister and currently a seminary teacher) was personally acquainted with Brown and has a great deal of respect for him.
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