u/Rie_blade

what are your guys favorite commentaries?

Do you guys tend to use digital or physical commentaries?

Do you usually go for in depth or straight to the point commentaries?

Do you like older or newer commentaries?

Do you prefer commentaries that focus more on semantics or theology?

Wikipedia page on the Miqra'ot Gedolot if you have no idea what it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikraot\_Gedolot.

Not sure if this is allowed here because this is a post about commentary on the Bible, rather than specifically the Bible, but if gets taken down then it gets taken down.

The title pretty much sums it up entirely, I'm curious how people feel about new religious movements, because I have spoken to a lot of people who view new religious movements either as exclusively cults, or leaders who are „genuine but crazy“ such as suffering from schizophrenia.

For example Isaiah 14:12 does not explicitly refer to the devil, but in Catholic and Protestant theology there is a second meaning, that while it refers to the king of Babylon it also refers to Satan, so would you consider that biblical even though the text does not explicitly state it?

Hello y'all, so I am buying another Bible because the old translation I have from it is literally falling apart, and I realized I have collected a lot of Bibles and some of them are quite pretty, except I have nowhere really to show them off, so I'm wondering is there a place where it's like Bible show and tell? I looked at r/religion, but I'm not 100% sure that is the correct place.

Hey y'all, so I've seen people and they have a prayer Bible, and they have a reading Bible, and my question is what do these mean? Such as a prayer Bible, do you use an entire Bible specifically for prayers (that would seem like an extremely long prayer)? And a reading Bible, maybe it's because I have dyslexia which makes reading almost impossible to actually enjoy, but I can't imagine the Bible in the first place is the type of text you read casually.

Hey y’all,

I consistently run into a problem and it is that Jewish and Christian texts are relatively easy to find, and Islamic texts are a bit harder to find where I live but they’re still fairly accessible, however when it comes to other religions I have a much harder time finding good resources, whether they’re scriptures or not, even for traditions that have structured stories such as the Greek religion, I tend to find books that are written more as storybooks or for casual reading rather than study, a lot of the time they are aimed at children, and religions that rely more heavily on oral traditions and do not have a single structured body of stories, I run into a similar issue, many of the books I find are designed primarily for storytelling, as a result they often simplify nuances overlook differences between traditions, or combine multiple versions of a story in order to create a more cohesive narrative.

So my overall question is are there any resources where I can learn about religion in all forms, both historical reconstructions and the evidence behind them, I’d also like to learn about modern groups that continue to practice or worship within these traditions, Ideally I’m looking for resources that focus on scholarship, history, and primary evidence rather than popular-culture interpretations.

Either by the aristocracy, nobility, or prince-electorates; as in the Holy Roman Empire, or elected by the people themselves?

Hey y’all, I have two different questions about Hebrew.

Normally Hebrew follows a consonant-vowel-consonant structure, but there’s the furtive pataḥ where certain letters at the end of a word make it behave more like vowel-consonant (רוּחַ ruach instead of rucha), so I’m wondering how old this rule is; older than the MT, from the MT, or newer then the MT.

Why are some words and names pronounced with the ה at the end acting like an “A” sound, while other words and names for example מֹשֶׁה, have a ה at the end that seems completely silent, historically did these endings originally make an “A” or “H” sound? For example, Moshea or Mosheh rather than Moshe.

Hey y'all, so I recently heard from someone who distrusts the authority of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and their reasoning is that the Dead Sea Scrolls were in the caves because they were old or heterodox scrolls (They called them genizot which confused me because they're more than just Torah scrolls.) and this idea supposedly comes from the book “The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea by Joan E. Taylor” by Oxford Unity Press, I had always heard that the scrolls were in the caves possibly because the community was persecuted, not because they were simply old or heterodox, so I was wondering if there is more academic information on this.

[I originally posted this on r/Bible but it got removed because apparently I broke rule two and seven, so I decided to post it here.]

Sure it includes theological choices, but every Bible translation does, for example the ESV render Isaiah 7:14 as “virgin”, even though the text it’s based on (the RSV) uses “young woman” which more accurately reflects the Hebrew עלמה, the choice of “virgin” is a theological one.

The NWT’s translation of the vast majority of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament is overall pretty average in quality compared to it’s peers, so is this a case where people have legitimate issues with the translation itself that I’m missing, or do people mainly dislike the group behind it?

Sure it includes theological choices, but every Bible translation does, for example the ESV render Isaiah 7:14 as “virgin”, even though the text it’s based on (the RSV) uses “young woman” which more accurately reflects the Hebrew עלמה, the choice of “virgin” is a theological one.

The NWT’s translation of the vast majority of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament is overall pretty average in quality compared to it’s peers, so is this a case where people have legitimate issues with the translation itself that I’m missing, or do people mainly dislike the group behind it?