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This is an outline of commentaries and commentators.Discussed are the salient points of Jewish, patristic, medieval, and modern commentaries on the Bible. The article includes discussion of the Targums, Mishna, and Talmuds, which are not regarded as Bible commentaries in the modern sense of the word, but which provide the foundation for later commentary.
Student's Life Application Bible is a student version of the book. It features "slice of life" stories provided by teenagers and abridged annotations. [3] The scholar Timothy Beal said that in the market for study Bibles, the NIV Study Bible is the Life Application Study Bible ' s primary rival. [2]
Kenneth Nathaniel Taylor (May 8, 1917 – June 10, 2005) was an American publisher and author, better known as the creator of The Living Bible and the founder of Tyndale House, [2] a Christian publishing company, and Living Bibles International.
Coffman is the author of a 37-volume verse-by-verse commentary series, which includes every book in the Protestant Bible, which he finished in 1992. It is sold internationally, and serves as an amalgamation of many varying interpretations laid side-by-side for study, along with research into the historical backgrounds of the biblical text. [4] [5]
The Analyzed Bible vol. 8 (The Prophecy of Isaiah v.2) (1910) The Study and Teaching of the English Bible (1910) The Purposes of the Incarnation (1910) The Analyzed Bible vol. 9 (The Book of Genesis) (1911) The Analyzed Bible vol. 10 (The Gospel According to Matthew) (1911) Living Messages of the Books of the Bible, Vol. 1: Old Testament (1912)
The Living Bible was a best-seller in the early 1970s, largely due to the accessibility of its modern language, which made passages understandable to those with weak reading skills [citation needed], or no previous background in Bible study. The Living Bible was the best-selling book in the U.S. [6]
Despite the series name, these commentaries do not set a program of regular study. Rather, they go verse by verse through Barclay's own translation of the New Testament, listing and examining every possible interpretation known to Barclay and providing all the background information he considered possibly relevant, all in layman's terms.
The idea for the commentary originated with J. D. Snider, book department manager of the Review and Herald Publishing Association, in response to a demand for an Adventist commentary like the classical commentaries of Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, Albert Barnes, or Adam Clarke. [6]