Ads
related to: 4 maccabees nrsv bibleEasy online order; very reasonable; lots of product variety - BizRate
ebay.com has been visited by 1M+ users in the past month
Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
What 2 Maccabees covered in one chapter and a half, 4 Maccabees extends to a full 14 chapters of dialogue and philosophical discussion. 4 Maccabees recasts the story as one of reason and logic: the martyrs will be rewarded in the afterlife, so it is rational to continue to obey Jewish law, even at the risk of torture and death.
The New Interpreter's Study Bible is a study Bible first published by Abingdon Press/Cokesbury in 2003 which uses the complete New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) text with Apocrypha. The NISB is the expanded edition of the NRSV text that includes 3 and 4 Maccabees, and Psalm 151, which are considered as authoritative in Eastern Orthodox churches.
The fathers of Anabaptism, such as Menno Simons, quoted "them [the Apocrypha] with the same authority and nearly the same frequency as books of the Hebrew Bible" and the texts regarding the martyrdoms under Antiochus IV in 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees are held in high esteem by the Anabaptists, who historically faced persecution.
5 Maccabees, an Arabic text which offers an account of the history of the Maccabees from 186 BC to 6 BC. The same title is occasionally ascribed to a Syriac version of the 6th book of Josephus' The Jewish War. [2] [3] 6 Maccabees, a Syriac poem that possibly shared a lost source with 4 Maccabees. [3]
Some editions of the Revised Standard Version and the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible include not only the Apocrypha listed above, but also 3 Maccabees, 4 Maccabees, and Psalm 151. The American Bible Society lifted restrictions on the publication of Bibles with the Apocrypha in 1964. The British and Foreign Bible Society followed in ...
The Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE) is an English translation of the Bible first published in 1966 in the United States.In 1965, the Catholic Biblical Association adapted, under the editorship of Bernard Orchard OSB and Reginald C. Fuller, the ecumenical National Council of Churches' Revised Standard Version (RSV) for Roman Catholic use.