I don’t know if this is the correct place to ask this, but…
Is there a study Bible out there where the commentary is focused on literary criticism and not doctrine nor better Christian living prescriptions, unlike regular study and devotional Bibles?
It would be interesting to read the Bible and immediately have access to commentary discussing why passages like Mark 16: 9-20 and John 8: 1-11.
If there aren’t any, has Dr. Ehrman considered contributing to one along with other scholars?
I have found the Harper’s Study Bible to be very useful (and generally better than the Oxford, although that has its merits as a second take on things). I have also found the Harper’s Bible Dictionary to be quite good. I have recently purchased a copy of the separate Harper’s Bible Commentary, but have not yet received that. I trust that it will at least live up to the other references noted.
I just got a catalog in the mail today from Christianbook.com. (I bought some Bible tabs from them several weeks ago. The tabs are nice, although none of the ones I liked stylistically seem to cover all of the apocryphal books. Tobit, yes, but Bel and the Dragon, no.)
Anyway, it is a very nice catalog, with literally pages of study bibles. I had no idea that there were so many options. In addition to a host of single volume study guides, there are sets of 17, 19, 20 and 33 volumes just on the New Testament books! You could literally spend a lifetime reading nothing but these study guides, which is probably a very bad idea (as well as being prohibitively expensive and requiring a massive library to hold them).
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