The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha: An Ecumenical Study Bible (Completely Revised and Enlarged)

COMPLETELY REVISED, UPDATED, AND EXPANDED The substantial new material contained in The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha/New Revised Standard Version, added to the wealth of scholarly essays, notes, and maps that have for over twenty-five years defined The Annotated as the best study Bible available, make this new edition-in scholarship and in format-completely contemporary. New features are: • The full text of The New Revised Standard Version Bible, the most modern Bible translation available in English. • Includes a new, brief concordance to The New Revised Standard Version Bible. • The Apocryphal and Deuterocanonical books—the fullest collection in any English language Bible-appearing in place, not after the New Testament. • Inclusive language used except where it might obscure the historic or literary structure of the original text. • Annotations that have been thoroughly reviewed—in many cases completely revised-and more clearly keyed to the text. • Notes and essays compiled by top scholars, selected for their expertise in the particular books or topics covered. • Seven new essays on major subdivisions: the Pentateuch, the historical books, the poetical books or "writings," the prophetical books, the New Testament narra-tives, the letters, apocalyptic literature. • In most cases, new or expanded introductions to books of the Bible • A new introductory essay on how to use the NOAB/NRSV. • Wider margins. • New, more convenient locations for the chronological tables of rulers. • Bible pages coded "OT," "AP," or "NT" to clearly distinguish berween Old Testament, Apocrypha, and New Testament sections.