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Essay: How to choose a Bible (view source)
Revision as of 19:50, January 16, 2015
, 19:50, January 16, 2015→Discerning good and bad translations: Study Bibles: provided links to online annotated Bibles Protestant and Catholic
Every Christian faced with the question of ''how to choose a Bible'' must carefully learn how to discern good translations from bad translations, and this includes deciding among those Bibles offering footnotes and marginal "running commentary" on particular verses.<ref name=discern/> Many of these are called "Study Bibles" and they always reflect the particular doctrinal interpretation of a particular individual or committee of editors or denomination, for example the ''Scofield Reference Bible'' which promotes the [[Fundamentalism|fundamentalist]] doctrine of ''[[dispensationalism]]'', or Concordia's ''Lutheran Study Bible'' with commentary by [[Martin Luther]], and the ''Orthodox Study Bible'' and ''The New American Bible, Revised Edition'' which promote and explain the doctrinal teaching of those Churches.
Every Christian faced with the question of ''how to choose a Bible'' must carefully learn how to discern good translations from bad translations, and this includes deciding among those Bibles offering footnotes and marginal "running commentary" on particular verses.<ref name=discern/> Many of these are called "Study Bibles" and they always reflect the particular doctrinal interpretation of a particular individual or committee of editors or denomination, for example the ''Scofield Reference Bible'' which promotes the [[Fundamentalism|fundamentalist]] doctrine of ''[[dispensationalism]]'', or Concordia's ''Lutheran Study Bible'' with commentary by [[Martin Luther]], and the ''Orthodox Study Bible'' and ''The New American Bible, Revised Edition'' which promote and explain the doctrinal teaching of those Churches.
Compare the following examples:
*[http://www.biblestudytools.com/wyc/ Wycliffe Bible, Updated with Notes: publisher, Terence P. Noble.]
*[http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/scofield-reference-notes/ Scofield's Reference Notes]—[http://poweredbychrist.homestead.com/files/cyrus/scofield.htm Cyrus I. Scofield]
*[http://www.cph.org/t-TLSB-samples.aspx The Lutheran Study Bible–Concordia Publishing House: Samples of text and notes]
*[https://archive.org/details/the_new_oxford_annotated_bible_with_apocrypha_new_revised_standard_ver The New Oxford Annotated Bible ''with'' Apocrypha, New Revised Standard Version]
*[http://nelsonfree.com/orthodoxstudybible Orthodox Study Bible, HarperCollins Christian Publishing © Copyright 2015 HarperCollins Publishers. All Rights Reserved.]
*[http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/index.cfm New American Bible, Revised Edition ''with'' notes]
*[http://catholic-lifetime-reading-plan.blogspot.com/2008/08/navarre-bible-text-and-commentaries.html The Navarre Bible: Text and Commentaries. Bishop-approved Catholic commentary of Scripture linked to as much historical Church documentation as possible.]
*[http://bible.ort.org/books/pentd2.asp ORT: Navigating the Bible II online. —STUDY: Translation: This is the Five Books of Moses along with commentaries.] <br/>—'''Jewish''' ''commentary by'' Rabbi [[Aryeh Kaplan]] 1983.<ref>[http://www.aish.com/authors/48865952.html Aish.com: Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan. Brief biographical note and bibliography.]</ref>
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