A fully revised Fourth Edition was released in May 2010. It contains new color maps and updated essays and commentaries. As always, versions with and without the Apocrypha were made available. 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. I have read some negative comments complaining of historical inaccuracies and continuity problems in this work. Talk about missing the point! The Bible Is truly a monumental achievement of literature (and to many of us) of spirituality. It begs to be appreciated on either level or even better on both. Other classical works of literature (Homer, Beowulf, Gilgamesh and The Arabian Nights amongst others), history (Herodotus, Thucydides, Eusebius, Plutarch all come mind), philosophy (Plato, Aristotle) and religion (Koran and Bhagavad-Gita) display similar inconsistencies yet we would be at best considered intellectually deficient to reject these works. At worst we would be seen as culturally insensitive.

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General essays on history, translation matters, different canons in use today, and issues of daily life in biblical times inform the reader of important aspects of biblical study.Speaking of violence: most of the victims of God’s wrath, especially in the old testament are the Jews themselves. The book is an endless repetition of the same cycle of abuse: the Jews do something that makes God angry -> God dispatches some terrible punishment on them, like a foreign army that kills or enslaves the Jews -> after a while the Jews repent and make up with God, who saves them from the very problems he’s put them in -> all is good for a while, until the Jews break God’s rules once more and the cycle begins again. Introductory essays on major groups of biblical writings - Pentateuch, Prophets, Gospels, and other sections - give readers an overview that guides more intensive study. 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

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While others complain of the navigation issues, I find navigation pretty standard for Kindle edition. Sure, it would be great if each chapter of each book appeared in the table of contents, but the links in the text obviate the need for this. There is also a PDF e-book available elsewhere, but the trouble with that is it has no in-text links to the passages so frequently referenced. I also bought the print edition, but find the footnote and essays by to set in too small a type for comfortable reading. The main text is also a little cramped. I understand the desire to have it all in one volume, but I wish a large-print edition was available, even if the physical book itself were much larger. The New Oxford Annotated Bible , with twenty new essays and introductions and others--as well as annotations--fully revised, offers the reader flexibility for any learning style. Beginning with a specific passage or a significant concept, finding information for meditation, sermon preparation, or academic study is straightforward and intuitive.Coogan, Michael D., ed. (2018). New Oxford Annotated Bible (5thed.). p.xiv. ISBN 9780190276119. In keeping with the general desire to take account of the diversity of the users of this study Bible, the editors have adopted two widely‐accepted conventions: referring to the first portion of the text as 'the Hebrew Bible,' since it is a collection preserved by the Jewish community and that is how Jews regard it; and citing all dates in the notes as BCE or CE ('Before the Common Era' and 'Common Era') instead of BC or AD ('Before Christ' and 'Anno Domini' ['in the year of the Lord']), which imply a Christian view of the status of Jesus of Nazareth. Use of the title 'Old Testament' for those books here designated as 'the Hebrew Bible' is confined to instances expressing the historical view of various Christian interpreters.