Zondervan Releases NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible
Zondervan has just released the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible. The new study Bible has notes and resources handpicked by respected biblical backgrounds scholars John H. Walton (Old Testament) and Craig S. Keener (New Testament). The study Bible now complement the New International Version of the Bible, the world's most read and most trusted modern-English Bible translation. Newcomers to Bible study and veteran students of the Bible alike will find surprising insights into ancient culture on every page of the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible.
"There is no such thing as a story or a teaching that doesn't have a cultural setting," say Keener and Walton in the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible's author introduction. "That is not to say that a story or teaching is not relevant for another setting, but to remember that it comes to us from a particular place and in a particular language. . . . This Bible's notes are meant to help readers hear and visualize the story closer to the way it was originally written, so they can get to know the people and places in the Bible more on their own terms."
The robust study tools and features provided in the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible stand apart from other study Bibles by focusing on the cultural context of each passage. Notes, book introductions, and articles totaling approximately 15 volumes of content ground an additional 375 vivid full-color photos, illustrations, and maps, which draw readers in and bring the ancient world of Scripture to life. The NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible includes a concordance, cross-references, endnotes, glossary, index to articles, and the words of Christ in red. The new project includes nearly 400,000 more words of study tools than Zondervan's groundbreaking 2005 NIV Archaeological Study Bible and dozens more maps, charts, illustrations, and graphics.
N.T. Wright, Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and author of many scholarly and lay-oriented books of biblical studies, says of the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible, "How I wish someone had put a book like this into my hands 50 years ago."
The notes of the NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible are taken from the very best resources on Bible backgrounds, including the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary. This superb scholarship provides added dimension to Bible study by explaining subtle nuances, idiosyncrasies, wordplays, and cultural references that we often miss but that the original audience would have understood instinctively.
The NIV Cultural Backgrounds Study Bible will help readers understand, at a deeper level than they ever have, stories and passages that they've read perhaps hundreds of times before. More information is available atwww.ContextChangesEverything.com.
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