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Article: The Discipleship Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version Including Apocrypha.(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
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- October 21, 2008
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The Discipleship Study Bible: New Revised Standard Version Including Apocrypha.
Edited by Bruce C. Birch, Brian K. Blount, Thomas G. Long, Gail R. O'Day and W. Sibley Towner.
Westminster John Knox, 2,198 pp., $39.95.
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Recently I browsed the front end of the religion section in my neighborhood bookstore, and I found dozens of Bibles: teen Bibles, "practical" Bibles, a travel Bible, a "businessman's" Bible, Bibles narrated by great actors and captured on CD. I didn't even open The Mother's Bible, although I wondered if fathers like me could make sense of these maternally oriented scriptures. So what is a reviewer ...