{"id":10381,"date":"2024-02-18T14:05:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T08:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/18\/my-top-3-study-bibles-and-so-should-you\/"},"modified":"2024-02-18T14:05:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T08:35:22","slug":"my-top-3-study-bibles-and-so-should-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/18\/my-top-3-study-bibles-and-so-should-you\/","title":{"rendered":"My Top 3 Study Bibles (and so should you)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peteenns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/JSP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6304 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/peteenns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/JSP.jpg\" alt=\"JSP\" width=\"144\" height=\"209\"\/><\/a>Not all will agree with my top 3 study Bibles (duh), but then again not all readers of the Bible are at the same place and looking for the same things.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from that, this list is objectively accurate and if you can\u2019t see that it\u2019s not my fault.<\/p>\n<p>In no particular order, here they are:<\/p>\n<p>HCSB and NISB include the Apocryphal\/Deuterocanonical books and use the NRSV as their text. The JSB does not include these books and is based on the Jewish Publication Society\u2019s translation,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0827603665\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0827603665&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=inspirandinca-20&amp;linkId=3UK6QU5QXF4VFM36\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tanakh<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=inspirandinca-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0827603665\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"\/>.<\/p>\n<p>So what do I like about these study Bibles?<a href=\"https:\/\/peteenns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HCSB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8941\" src=\"https:\/\/peteenns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HCSB.jpg\" alt=\"HCSB\" width=\"182\" height=\"276\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Personally, <strong>I like the NRSV<\/strong>. I think it is a combination of being the\u00a0least idiosyncratic and most scholarly translation. There I said it.\u00a0It also lends a freshness to those accustomed to other translations, as does the Tanach translation (although there I am not always sure why they did what they did, but that\u2019s another subject).<\/li>\n<li>All three include <strong>excellent, informative, scholarly essays<\/strong> on a wide variety of topics. For me, the best of the three is JSB. It\u2019s like a seminary\/intro-level grad school education (and I\u2019ll throw in here the essays in the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0195297709\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0195297709&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=inspirandinca-20&amp;linkId=5XWJZYJT6MDBRDGH\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Jewish Annotated New Testament<\/a><\/em>)<em>. <\/em>I\u00a0feel like I\u2019m\u00a0part of a bigger conversation in my reading of the Bible rather than being insulated from one.<\/li>\n<li>I rarely feel that the essays and study notes are trying to <strong>sell me snake oil<\/strong>. There are exceptions here and there, but on the whole I feel I am getting reliable, balanced, and academically up-to-date information rather than being driven to accept a final answer to difficult problems.<\/li>\n<li>James Kugel once relayed to his students, \u201cCommentaries are like traffic cops. They\u2019re never there when you need them.\u201d I feel the same way about many study Bibles out there, namely those produced with a conservative\u00a0readership in mind. Again, with some exceptions, the notes\u00a0in these study Bibles are\u00a0insightful,\u00a0yield information that goes far beyond stating\u00a0the obvious, and rarely have qualms about noting where there are <strong>contradictions and\/or historical problems <\/strong>in the Bible.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>(NISB also has frequent lengthy \u201cspecial notes\u201d that deal quite squarely with things like\u00a0historical issues and\u00a0moral challenges.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peteenns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/NISB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8942 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/peteenns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/NISB.jpg\" alt=\"NISB\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\"\/><\/a>I don\u2019t have a favorite of these three. I\u2019ve been using NISB for a few years in\u00a0class, but I will always take a look at the notes in JPS and HCSB to see what they have to add.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I wrote this post in part to answer a common question I get: \u201cI don\u2019t have a degree in Bible, but I want to be able to track with things I see online or read books to help me understand more. How can I get started?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My answer is, \u201cRead a good study\u00a0Bible along with the notes.\u201d So these three are what I consider to be \u201cgood study Bibles.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thebiblefornormalpeople.com\/my-top-3-study-bibles-and-so-should-you\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=my-top-3-study-bibles-and-so-should-you\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not all will agree with my top 3 study Bibles (duh), but then again not all readers of the Bible are at the same place and looking for the same things. Apart from that, this list is objectively accurate and if you can\u2019t see that it\u2019s not my fault. 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