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Title: The Oxford Study Bible: Revised English Bible With Apocrypha by M. Jack Suggs, Katharing Doob Sakenfeld, James R. Mueller, Katharine Doob Sakenfeld ISBN: 0-19-529001-1 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent study bible and a wonderful translation
Comment: I have read and compared three translations of the Bible in English: the New International Version, the New Revised Standard Version, and the Revised English Bible. My favorite is the REB. The NRSV is the most literal (except for the gender neutral changes), and it is also the most difficult to read. The NIV is often too informal for my tastes. Although the REB is a scholarly translation, it is the least literal of the three in its phrasings, but less gender-neutral than the NRSV. Because the REB is so well-written, I find that I get more out of reading it than either of the other two, and I tend to use the others primarily for comparison of specific passages.
Reading a study bible with its commentary, study aids, and maps is essential for most of us, especially the beginner. This study bible is one of the best for the layman. It strikes a good balance between what I consider to be too much information (Harper NRSV Study Bible) and too little (Oxford Annotated NRSV Bible).
My only complaint is that this study bible does not come in a nice leather edition. The only leather REB is the superb edition published by Cambridge, but it contains only text with no study aids or maps.
Rating: 5
Summary: Most underrated translation and study bible on the market
Comment: The Revised English Bible is surely the most underrated and under appreciated version of the bible today. It is a thorough revision of the New English Bible, which was a bold and daring completely new translation from the original languages, published in 1961 and 1970. The REB is an accurate, literary, intelligent version of the Holy Scriptures, with dignified language. It is a somewhat free translation, but transparent to the original languages, as theologian Harvey Cox comments. It is not a paraphrase, but a reliable translation for devotions or study, for layperson or scholar. I found that by reading the REB along side my NRSV New Oxford Annotated Bible, 3rd edition, that the REB actually adopts renderings suggested in the NOAB commentary notes (e.g., Genesis 15). Furthermore, the Oxford Study Bible is one of the very finest study bibles available. True, there are only minor revisions from the 1976 edition, and those mostly for inclusive language and to fit the REB rather than the NEB text. But the notes hold up remarkably well, and I do not see that any of the newer study bibles have much over the Oxford Study Bible. The scholarly articles are also very helpful, and completely brand new. My only complaint is that the print is smaller than the original 1976 edition, but it is still very readable. The Revised English Bible, Oxford Study edition is an excellent study bible. If I was starting all over again, and could only own one edition of the Holy Scriptures, the REB in the Oxford Study Edition would be my choice. It is my new "stranded on a desert island" translation!
Rating: 5
Summary: "Translation" issue is really "textual source" issue.
Comment: A previous Amazon review by Michael K. Broadhead (see below) calls attention to an "oddity" in the REB's rendering of Jesus "anger" in Mark 1:41. Broadhead points out that KJV gives "compassion" and RSV gives "pity" for the same term. He could have added that the NEB -- the predecessor version to the REB -- gives "warm indignation".
These words are indeed different. However, differences do not imply mistranslation, or that one of the translations has to be incorrect, or that the translators were careless.
The REB rendering resulted from the translators' evaluation and selection of various textual and evidentiary sources, referred to as "witnesses." Tanslators have to assess and take into account divergent manuscrits in Greek, manuscripts of early translations into other lnaguages, and quotations from the New Testament by early Christian writers. Translators are highly conscious of the provisional basis of their judgements about the variants.
I have read the NEB closely and comparatively. Setting aside the concept of accuracy, which is more elusive than we like to think and beyond the expertise of readers without training in ancient languages, beyond even that expertise of readers armed with lexicons, I have found the translation to be strong and convincing. I would especially recommend the REB or the NEB to readers who already know their KJV and RSV. The differences are more fascinating than "odd."
The best thing about the REB is its full commitment to the English language and willingness to write as English is written, risky as that may be. So-called "accurate" translations that give give English word equivalents without sounding like acual English usage fail in the task of translation, from my point of view.
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Title: The Old Testament: An Introduction by Rolf Rendtorff, John Bowden ISBN: 0800625447 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Bible Commentary/Haftarot by Michael Fishbane ISBN: 0827606915 Publisher: Jewish Publication Society Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann ISBN: 0800632877 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Confessions (OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS) by Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick ISBN: 0192833723 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The New Jerusalem Bible by Henry Wansbrough ISBN: 0385142641 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 01 October, 1985 List Price(USD): $42.50 |
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