The NRSV Discipleship Study Bible with the Apocrypha
By B.C. Birch, B.K. Blount, T.G. Long & G.R. O'Day
Product Description
The Discipleship Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version including Apocrypha—the first completely new NRSV study Bible in five years!
Laity and clergy in mainline Protestant churches frequently want a study Bible that matches their congregation’s translation for worship and education (usually NRSV) while also providing resources for personal understanding and guidance for Christian living. Existing study Bibles based on the NRSV provide factual information about the biblical text but have not developed the personal application direction. The Discipleship Study Bible will be unique in providing a NRSV translation with personal application notes for a mainline Protestant audience.
The annotations in this study Bible give particular emphasis to discerning scriptural guidance for living together in community. Such living encompasses but is not limited to personal piety. The biblical text has an inescapable social dimension and the Discipleship Study Bible demonstrates attentiveness to the public and communal meanings and implications of the biblical text, including the social justice and social witness dimensions of Scripture. In short, this study Bible gives attention to both personal and corporate discipleship, to both spiritual and social needs.
The Discipleship Study Bible:
- Focuses on discipleship (Christian living for today) for a mainline denominational communion
- Concentrates on social justice, that is, acts of Christian care and concern for all God’s people and all of God’s world
- Concentrates on personal piety, that is, Christian acts of personal response to Scripture
- Is based on the scholarship and inclusive language of the NRSV translation
The Discipleship Study Bible provides you with a number of features:
- Extensive (approximately 400,000 total words) introduction and annotations for each biblical book (including the Apocryphal or Deuterocanonical books) solicited from a group of distinguished biblical scholars for this project.
- Introductions to each biblical book to acquaint you with essential historical, sociocultural, literary, and theological issues valuable in understanding the biblical book in question.
- Annotations for each biblical book addressing the whole range of the Christian life. Both spiritual and social needs are given attention to help you recognize that Christian faith makes claims on every aspect of our lives. Attention is given as appropriate to personal piety as a dimension of faithful discipleship. But even more attention is devoted to the social dimension of the biblical text and faithful discipleship, especially matters of social justice.
- Concise chronology of events and literature in and surrounding Ancient Israel and Early Christianity
- Concise concordance
- Color maps
