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Difflugia · 01-28-2015, 11:02 AM

The Guidebook: The NRSV Student Bible is $3.99. The study chapter headings and study notes aren't particularly in-depth or illuminating, but this is the first I've seen an edition of the NRSV on sale in over a year. This edition does not include the Apocrypha.
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Evolution of the Word: The New Testament in the Order the Books Were Written by Marcus J. Borg is $3.99. The Bible text is the NRSV and the chronology matches the consensus of secular New Testament scholarship, which will certainly disagree with more conservative chronologies. The Pastoral Epistles, for example, are placed after the Gospels and dated by the author to the early second century, some forty or fifty years after Paul's death. This obviously conflicts with the notion that they were written by Paul himself.

I'm actually a little disappointed in the book. The sample ends before any of the introductions to the individual books or Bible text itself, so I was buying the content without really knowing what I was getting. While I like the NRSV, I was hoping for a novel translation by the author. I was also hoping for more discussion of the reasons that the books were dated when they were. Instead, the author is much more focused on the theology of the Church as it evolved through the time period during which the New Testament was written. This is interesting to me and I expect to enjoy reading the book, but I was expecting a rather different book than what I got.
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The NIV First-Century Study Bible: Explore Scripture in Its Jewish and Early Christian Context by Kent Dobson is $7.99. I bought this one when it was the same price in November and I've been enjoying it very much.
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Difflugia Testate Amoeba Posts: 3,049 Karma: 27300000 Join Date: Sep 2012 Device: Many Android devices, Kindle 2, Toshiba e755 PocketPC	The Guidebook: The NRSV Student Bible is $3.99. The study chapter headings and study notes aren't particularly in-depth or illuminating, but this is the first I've seen an edition of the NRSV on sale in over a year. This edition does not include the Apocrypha. B&N Amazon Evolution of the Word: The New Testament in the Order the Books Were Written by Marcus J. Borg is $3.99. The Bible text is the NRSV and the chronology matches the consensus of secular New Testament scholarship, which will certainly disagree with more conservative chronologies. The Pastoral Epistles, for example, are placed after the Gospels and dated by the author to the early second century, some forty or fifty years after Paul's death. This obviously conflicts with the notion that they were written by Paul himself. I'm actually a little disappointed in the book. The sample ends before any of the introductions to the individual books or Bible text itself, so I was buying the content without really knowing what I was getting. While I like the NRSV, I was hoping for a novel translation by the author. I was also hoping for more discussion of the reasons that the books were dated when they were. Instead, the author is much more focused on the theology of the Church as it evolved through the time period during which the New Testament was written. This is interesting to me and I expect to enjoy reading the book, but I was expecting a rather different book than what I got. B&N Amazon The NIV First-Century Study Bible: Explore Scripture in Its Jewish and Early Christian Context by Kent Dobson is $7.99. I bought this one when it was the same price in November and I've been enjoying it very much. B&N Amazon