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	• The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, ... Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 - 2432 pages average customer review:based on 136 reviews view larger image
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Disciple Bible Class

I selected this version of the Bible for my Disciple Bible Classes. It gives me the reference information I need to more fully understand the text being studied.

The Human Show

The first chapter of this book describes the creation of a world in which all of the subsequent action takes place. The world in question is flat and covered with a dome that has little stars painted on it. Just for fun the stars are organized into constellations. The guy who built the world lives on top of the dome and controls the weather, occasionally pouring water through little holes that he made. When he gets angry he pours a lot of water, which spells big trouble for the people who live down below. The guy who lives on top of the dome also created a sun, which orbits his planet and may or may not be attached to the dome. The remainder of the book deals with the exploits of the characters who live in the dome. Some of the exploits are quite interesting, but popular confusion between the world described in this book and Earth continues to be a major barrier to human progress.

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excellent

The rise of fundlementlism it seems in all religions and in particular a coworker or two that hold this view of the bible promted me to delve back into the the bible again. This edition is a must have in my opinion as a solid base to understading not only the Christen faith but all the Abrahamic faiths. Very impessive.

New Oxford

The book has the chapters that are considered the Apocrypha and is printed on onion skin paper.

The best typography and design

I recently spent the better part of an hour looking through the Bible selection at a local bookstore and was deeply disappointed by what now passes for a nice reading Bible. Publishers seem to have completely forgotten the art of typography and design where the Bible is concerned. Even the new popular ESV translation is bad on this score--at least the three or four editions of it I saw. Oh sure, there are decent leather bound editions. But it's the interior spreads that make the critical difference.

The New Oxford Annotated Bible is a clear standout on the crowded Bible shelves. As other reviewers have pointed out, the type selection and size are not too small, the trim size is larger than most Bibles, but the text is really allowed to breathe in this edition. This is, hands down, one of the best reading Bibles.

Other standouts include the new Penguin edition of the Bible (King James, published in late 2006, ISBN 978-0141441511), various editions of Richmond Lattimore's translation (1997 reprint, ISBN 978-0865475243), and Oxford's earlier RSV study bible.

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