The Westminster Study Bible Notes: New Revised Standard Version with the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal Books

by Emerson B. Powery; Brent A. Strawn; Mary F. Foskett; Stacy Davis

Publisher:

Westminster John Knox

, 2024

Overview

The Westminster Study Bible (WSB) is the first entirely new study Bible to utilize the recently released New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition.

Soon to be an essential tool for all religious studies contexts, The Westminster Study Bible includes interpretive materials from over eighty leading biblical experts who, as teachers in a variety of educational settings, are sensitive to how the biblical texts have been received, what their cultural and social consequences have been, and how readers might hear them now in multiple contexts.

The Westminster Study Bible also pays close attention to the interdisciplinary connections that contemporary students, teachers, and other readers from diverse backgrounds will find both useful and relevant. It is an ideal textbook for a range of biblical studies courses, as well as courses in religion, philosophy, and the general humanities, whether introductory or advanced. The Westminster Study Bible's emphasis on the cultural framing of the Bible’s theological, historical, literary, and philosophical elements allows it to be useful beyond the university and seminary classrooms, aiding teachers in religious congregations and organizations with their ministries as well.

Reading and engaging the Bible today is not as simple as discovering what it meant in its time in order to determine what it means for all time. All readers—whether students or instructors, clergy or general readers, religious or nonreligious—bring their own perspectives to the interpretation of the Bible. The themes and ideas that matter to twenty-first-century readers tend to resonate with our present situations in some way. The Westminster Study Bible takes this interactive dynamic between historical and contemporary interpretations seriously. Through study notes, thematic excursuses, and a range of illuminating essays, The Westminster Study Bible delves into the ancient contexts of the Bible, its continually evolving interpretations, and its contemporary reading and reception, critically exploring both the worlds of the text and the worlds of its many readers today.

Please visit www.wjkbooks.com/WSB for additional information and a more in-depth look at this exciting, new study Bible.

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Key Features

• Emphasizes the cultural framing of the Bible’s theological, historical, literary, and philosophical elements
• Includes interpretive materials from over eighty leading biblical experts
• Features nearly two hundred thematic excursuses
• Delves into the ancient contexts of the Bible, its continually evolving interpretations, and its contemporary reading and reception

General Editors

• Emerson B. Powery
• Stacy Davis
• Mary F. Foskett
• Brent A. Strawn

Praise for The Westminster Study Bible

The WSB contains a wealth of useful reference materials written by specialists with exceptional clarity, including study notes; overviews of the biblical books; thematic essays; and tables, charts, and diagrams. . . . This volume will be an essential resource for teaching and research at all levels and is appropriate for readers from different religious backgrounds.

—Jodi Magness, Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

I have been waiting for The Westminster Study Bible for a long time. . . . The WSB is deeply interdisciplinary and attentive to ancient and modern contexts. It provokes us as readers to build bridges among and between different interpretations and the different worlds that have shaped and been shaped by biblical traditions. A most useful text for an undergraduate classroom.

—Jacqueline M. Hidalgo, Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego

Study Bibles are plentiful, but not all study Bibles are the same. The Westminster Study Bible distinguishes itself by providing not only helpful study notes of the biblical texts but also examples of how contemporary readers are reading the Bible in particular contexts. It also has a global orientation not seen in many study Bibles. I enthusiastically recommend this study Bible and would use it in my own teaching.

—Kah-Jin Jeffrey Kuan, President Emeritus and Professor of Hebrew Bible, Claremont School of Theology

Product Details

• Title: The Westminster Study Bible Notes: New Revised Standard Version with the Deuterocanonical/Apocryphal Books
• Authors: Emerson B. Powery, Brent A. Strawn, Mary F. Foskett, Stacy Davis
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox
• Print Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Resource ID: LLS:WSTMNSTRSTBBNTS
• Resource Type: Study Bible
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-11T14:28:46Z

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