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Who do you consider "mainline protestant"?

 

Can't speak for Alexander, but some of the folks working on the study Bible were from Candler School of Theology at Emory University, Atlanta; Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth; and Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. These are just some that stuck with me.

 

It's not that they are exceptions.
PCA and LCMS aren't mainline.

 

Emory. The school of divinity that declared God dead. That place is a den of devils.

 

While I cannot remember details, this study Bible seemed very liberal in the notes. It treated scripture like any other work of ancient literature and not the inspired, inerrant, word of God. I had one for a short time (about 8 years ago) but was very bothered by some of the ‘study notes’. I do not use the NRSV translation either.

 

The original NRSV Harper Study Bible has notes by Harold Lindsell:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0310902037

"the NRSV Harper Study Bible has thousands of interpretative notes, located at the bottom of most pages and written from the standpoint of evangelical Christian scholarship....I would like to thank Bruce Ryskamp, Vice President of the Book and Bible Division of Zondervan Publishing House, for his encouragement to revise the Harper Study Bible to the New Revised Standard Version....we have produced a study Bible for the edification of every reader and for the glory of the Triune God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Ad majorem Dei gloriam." —Harold Lindsell, Laguna Hills, California, January 1991

Some of you may know Lindsell for his book Battle for the Bible

"Harold Lindsell, Ph.D., D.D., (1913-1998), served as editor of Christianity Today for more than a decade. Prior to that, Dr. Lindsell taught at Columbia International University, Northern Baptist Seminary, Wheaton College, and Fuller Theological Seminary, where he also served as Dean and Vice President. He has authored more than fifteen books, including the NRSV Harper Study Bible."

from Lindsell's obituary in SBC organ Baptist Press

"Lindsell held membership in Southern Baptist churches throughout his career -- most recently at El Toro Baptist Church, Lake Forest, Calif., and earlier at Glenfield Baptist Church, Glen Ellyn, Ill., and First Baptist Church, Alexandria, Va. He was ordained in 1944 at First Baptist Church, Columbia, S.C."

 

I have a copy. If you're looking for a study Bible from a liberal/secular perspective, this is a good example of one. Don't expect to find much in terms of notes oriented toward faith. It's generally focused on textual and literary criticism with historical analysis. It's probably not a surprise that the notes take the position that much of the Bible is historically inaccurate.

 

The current edition is under Harold Attridge.

Denomination Affiliation:
Roman Catholic
Education
A.B Boston College
B.A., M.A. Cambridge University, Marshall Scholar
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ph.D. Harvard University
Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University

Professor Attridge, dean of Yale Divinity School from 2002 to 2012, has made scholarly contributions to New Testament exegesis and to the study of Hellenistic Judaism and the history of the early Church. His publications include Essays on John and Hebrews, Hebrews: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews, First-Century Cynicism in the Epistles of Heraclitus, The Interpretation of Biblical History in the Antiquitates Judaicae of Flavius Josephus, Nag Hammadi Codex I: The Jung Codex, and The Acts of Thomas, as well as numerous book chapters and articles in scholarly journals. He has edited twelve books, including, with Gabriella Gelardini, Hebrews in Context (2016), with Dale Martin and Jurgen Zangenberg, Religion, Ethnicity and Identity in Ancient Galilee; and the centennial Terry Lectures, The Religion and Science Debate: Why Does It Continue? Professor Attridge served the general editor of the HarperCollins Study Bible Revised Edition (2006). He has been an editorial board member of Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Harvard Theological Review, Journal of Biblical Literature, Novum Testamentum, and the Hermeneia commentary series. He has been active in the Society of Biblical Literature and served as president of the society in 2001 and in the Catholic Biblical Association, of which he was president in 2011-12. He was elected to be a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2015. Professor Attridge is a fellow of Saybrook College.

 

yes, as it help to liberal views regarding authorship of Genesis, Isaiah, basically better off with just the translation itself!

 

I had the Lindsell Living Bible of all things, and if the Harper Collins NRSV as his notes, worth the purchase!

 

agreed, as Genesis all metaphor and Myth, Jonah a parable, miracles not real, wonder if Jesus even rose from the dead in a physical sense....

 

Wonder how he views Pauline Justification?

 

FYI, last year Zondervan assumed publishing oversight of NRSV (it had been under the aegis of the 'HarperSanFrancisco' division):

HarperCollins transfers NRSV portfolio to its Evangelical division

and FYI, the NRSV is right now being updated:

NRSV Review and Update

"the National Council of Churches, in partnership with the Society for Biblical Literature is conducting an update of the NRSV scripture translation"

"The scholars at work on the review and update include...New Testament General Editor Michael W. Holmes"



Michael W. Holmes, Director of the Museum of the Bible's Green Scholars Initiative

Michael W. Holmes - Wikipedia

"former Chair of the Department of Biblical and Theological Studies at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota....He was previously on the faculty at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School"

 

Looks like it will be their equivalent of the 2011 Niv!