ESV Literary Study Bible
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Michael Spencer provides 10 Reasons to Love the ESV Literary Study Bible.
posted by JT at Thursday, October 04, 2007
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FYI, I posted a two-part interview with Dr. Leland Ryken on the ESV Literary Study Bible. (Dr. Ryken co-edited the ESV Literary Study Bible with his son Pastor Phil Ryken.)
I have to say that I love the idea of this study bible, but have been disappointed so far in my browsing. I had hoped to see a bible that would point out the literary structure and organization of the Bible, and this edition does not seem to do that. For instance, it maintains chapter divisions as the main unit of organization, a huge literary problem, and makes no mention of such things as chiasms or the 10 “These are the generations of” phrases that organize the book of Genesis. Instead, it seems to apply the theories of literary analysis to the Bible, a considerably less helpful exercise, in my opinion.
If you’ve seen aspects of this bible that refute this, I’d love to hear it!
As I said over at the iMonk blog, I was a lot more excited about this Bible before I started reading the notes in a little more depth. After recently being interviewed on an atheist podcast on the book of Job, I took a look at the commentary. I was quite disappointed. Of all the books of the Bible, this is almost certainly the most literary, and yet I felt it stick to some fairly simplistic interpretations of the poem.
I agree with the above commenter that there is a lot of meaning in literary elements that just don’t get brought out - look at the different ways falling and lifting of faces is treated in Genesis, or Leviathan as the embodiment of the chaos of the sea.
Yet, for all that, I do like the way that it does look at the lar
...Yet, for all that, I do like the way that it does look at the large-scale structure of the books. So, I may buy the thing after all.
You can purchase the ESV Literary Bible at Monergismbooks.com for only $29.99 or 40% off.
http://www.monergismbooks.com/
They also have a very cool new website
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