I always wondered what this meant, in Luke 16:22-23, (NASB) "Now the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom; and the rich man also...
Oftentimes people reject The Book of Enoch because of the following verse from Matthew 22:23-33 (ESV) "The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there...
Enoch 6:1-2, And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels,...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195289102 <http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195289102> "The English Standard Version Bible captures as far as possible the precise wording...
G. Buchanan Gray, The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English, Charles, ed.1913 pp.631-652 Psalms of Solomon 17:18-27, "They that loved...
For those of you interested in Septuagint studies and the Psalms of Solomon. The NETS is "A New Translation of the Septuagint" which contains readable and...
John the revelator is the only biblical writer to use the term "Bottomless Pit", which he mentions six times. Before this concept was introduced to the New...
I think it can be demonstrated that the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews relied upon the Greek Old Testament, otherwise known as the Septuagint or LXX. If...
The practice of late-dating the books of the Bible can be seen as a position of faith on the part of those scholars who do so, though they will never admit it....
What if it can be demonstrated that the books perjoritively referred to as Apocrypha were in use as scripture from the earliest days of the Church? If you read...
If you delve into the books erroneously called "Apocrypha" before long you will notice a confusing array of differences between translations of them. For...
In English translations of the Book of Tobit, there are at least three different text traditions; these are, from a long Greek text, from a shorter Greek...
Hi all, just joined, very excited to find this group! In halting starts I've been trying to assemble something similar to this for my personal use, so I'm...
Wow Fred, you've really done your research. Welcome to the group. I need to absord your post before replying to it in a more detailed manner. Especially...
The two online books are new discoveries for me and much appreicated, "The Non-Canonical Books of the Old Testament" and "Conflcits of the Apostles". The...
... "A more comprehensive bible", that's exactly my thinking. I have to say your the first person I've run into in 2 years who sees it that way. ... That's...
I have a bit of bad news about the ESV version of Tobit, its based upon the shorter recension of Tobit I'm afraid. That is a severe disappointment to me. ... ...
... Frankly, I have a prejudice toward not including books which are of obvious gentile origin (with the notable exception of Luke :-). I know its a prejudice...
The following is the Preface to the Apocrypha in the English Standard Version Bible with Apocrypha. "This translation of the Apocryphal Books, which is...
Here's what I sent to the Executive and Assistant editors of OUP today... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello, I'm very happy to be in receipt...
{For the record... this is by way of follow-up to Fred's original post...} "The Uncanonical Writings of the Old Testament" Found in the Armenian Manuscripts of...
Oh my word! Its simply stupendous! I took my new ESV with Apocrypha (forgive this and later uses of that word) and my NETS to an excellent book binder locally....
Forgive the newcomer for possibly asking a stupid question (or two or more). 1) What is NETS? 2) Which new ESV did you use? I am Church of Sweden and was...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195289102 <http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195289102> "The English Standard Version Bible captures as far as possible the precise wording...
For those of you interested in Septuagint studies and the Psalms of Solomon. The NETS is "A New Translation of the Septuagint" which contains readable and...
Welcome Jennifer! ... New English Translation of the Septuagint ... English Standard Version with Apocrypha ... The RSV slightly updated for the ESV has its...
In what order did you have them put together? by complete 'bibles', book by book, or testament by testament? What binding did you use? Hardback or leather? I...
I will post pics. I did not break down the individual books. I placed the ESV w/Apocrypha first and the NETS second. I used hardback since this was a huge...
Last week I took two of my favorite Bible versions to the book binder to have them combined into a superb Bible study tool. I had the English Standard Version...
excellent pics! You can only tell from the side where they pages are a slightly different color, and only because I was looking for it. A most excellent idea!...