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Zerokku t1_ix9e6cf wrote

Reply to comment by AccomplishedBasil700 in Reading the Bible as source material by Saxon2060

As the kind of weirdo that isn't Christian/traditionally religious but likes to study the Bible for fun - seconding this comment.

In particular for the NRSV I'd recommend the Oxford Annotated NRSV for the annotations and essays alone which provides a lot of great info. It also includes the apocrypha which is missing from a large percentage of Protestant Bibles, but many of those books are hugely influential on the development of Christianity, and a lot of the references you may see are also touched on in those books.

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AccomplishedBasil700 t1_ixa1e6b wrote

Yes! The Oxford Annotated is a must. Thank you! I’d actually just conflated NRSV with the Oxford Annotated because that’s the only NRSV I’ve ever had.

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No_Wolf_3134 t1_ixb7y82 wrote

YES! My undergrad degree is in English and I took a Bible as literature course. We used the Oxford annotated Bible and hot damn it was so fascinating. I've recommended it just to regular friends as reading.

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