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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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.