The Harpercollins Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version With the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books - Softcover

Society Of Biblical Literature

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060655275 ISBN 13: 9780060655273

Publisher: Harper San Francisco, 1997

Synopsis

Introduces each book of the Bible

About this title

Review:

“The NRSV is a very fine translation both for study and for reading in public. It is now widely used and I amaglad to have the opportunity of commending it.”
George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury

From the Back Cover:

The 'NRSV Study Bible' combines the popular, accurate and readable 'New Revised Standard Version Bible' with helpful study materials to bring a new dept to Bible reading and study.

The 'NRSV Study Bible' offers essays on many different topics and extensive textual commentary, as well as diagrams and maps, to illuminate the Bible's historical, theological and cultural background and impact. Set alongside the text of the 'NRSV Bible', the most widely used modern Bible translation across the Christian traditions, these study materials bring new clarity in personal devotions, group study or academic work.

An authoritative and accessible translation, the 'NRSV' is designed for use by the whole Christian church. The result of fifteen years of careful work by an international team of experts, drawn from all the main Christian traditions, the 'NRSV' is based on the latest archaeological, biblical and linguistic scholarship and uses the best available manuscripts.

In this Study Bible the full text of the 'NRSV' Bible, including the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical Books, is coupled with textual notes, extensive essays and other study materials by sixty-one leading experts on the books of the Bible. Sponsored by the Society of Biblical Literature, the premier international organisation of biblical experts, this convenient yet thorough reference resource provides a library of information in one easy-to-use volume.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper San Francisco
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0060655275
• ISBN 13: 9780060655273
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Meeks Wayne A., Bassler Jouette M., Lemke Werner E., Niditch Susan, Schuller Eileen M.