Class - Reading the Bible for Liberation - Session 7 - Tools of the Trade

Translations

I Use

• NRSV
• NIV (2011 or TNIV)
• CEB
• NASB (2021)

Avoid

• ESV
• KJV
• The Living Bible

Special

• The Message
• First Nations Version
  • John 3:16 "The Great Spirit loves this world of human beings so deeply he gave us his Son―the only Son who fully represents him.** All who trust in him and his way will not come to a bad end, but will have the life of the world to come that never fades―full of beauty and harmony. Creator did not send his Son to decide against the people of this world, but to set them free from the worthless ways of the world."
• Single Author Translations

Study bibles

• Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible
• CEB Study Bible
• Africana Study Bible (OT)
• True to Our Native Land (NT)
• Oxford and Harper Collins Annotated Study Bibles
• Jewish Study Bible & Jewish Annotated New Testament

Avoid

• Study Bibles from Someone's Name or Face on Them

Online Tools

BibleGateway.com Plus

$40 / year

• Best Tools on Bible Gateway
  • NIV or NRSV Cultural Background Study Bible
  • NIV Application Commentary
  • Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary of the New Testament
  • Mounce's Complete Expository Dictionary
  • New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology
  • Zondervan Illustrated Bible Dictionary
  • Mounce's Interlinear

Surveys

• A Survey of the Old Testament (Hill & Walton)
• A Survey of the New Testament (Gundry)
• Toward Decentering the New Testament (Mitzi J. Smith, Yung Suk Kim)

If you want to understand a verse you need to understand it's

• Genre
• Book
• Audience and Context
• Chapter
• Paragraph

Single Volume Commentaries

https://www.amazon.com/Womens-Bible-Commentary-Third-Revised/dp/066423707X

https://www.amazon.com/Queer-Bible-Commentary-Deryn-Guest/dp/0334054427/?pldnSite=1

https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-Companion-Bible-Curtiss-Deyoung/dp/0800697022?pldnSite=1

https://www.amazon.com/Voices-Margin-Interpreting-Bible-World-ebook/dp/B00U7XTRT0/?pldnSite=1