Features
A study Bible usually contains an extensive helps and a critical apparatus, which may contain such features as:
- Annotations explaining difficult passages or points of theology and doctrine
- References to indicate where one passage of the text relates to others
- A concordance, a word index that indicates where various keywords are used in the Bible
- Variant readings or interpretations of certain debatable passages, or possible conjectural emendations (i.e. alterations based on an philological expert's "educated guess" of the likely form of the original Hebrew or Greek when the translators feel this is not sufficiently clear, possible translations from other ancient versions such as the Septuagint, Targumim, Peshitta and Vulgate, readings from other manuscript families, such as marking those passages missing which are present in the Byzantine text-type in a modern textual eclectic translation, or marking those passages present which are missing in the Alexandrian text-type and the modern critical text in a translation from the Textus Receptus or Byzantine text-type, etc.)
- Introductions and historical notes for each book of the Bible
- Short biographies of Biblical people and places
- Maps that illustrate the Holy Land during Biblical times
- Harmonies of the Gospels, pointing out parallel incidents in the life of Jesus
- Timelines of Bible history that relate it to world history
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“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times—the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie—seem attractive by comparison.”
—Christopher Lasch (b. 1932)
““It looks as if
Some pallid thing had squashed its features flat
And its eyes shut with overeagerness
To see what people found so interesting
In one another, and had gone to sleep
Of its own stupid lack of understanding,
Or broken its white neck of mushroom stuff
Short off, and died against the windowpane.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event—in the living act, the undoubted deed—there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask!”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)