Carolyn Pressler, in a recent commentary for the Westminster Bible Companion series, suggests that readers of Joshua should give priority to its theological message (" what passages teach about God ") and be aware of what these would have meant to audiences in the 7th and 6th centuries BCE.

The following is from Margaret Barker's commentary on Isaiah in Eerdman's Commentary on the Bible

Other than the Bible, the majority of the LDS canon constitutes revelation dictated by Joseph Smith and includes commentary and exegesis about the Bible, texts described as lost parts of the Bible, and other works believed to be written by ancient prophets.

The Institutes, together with Calvin's polemical and pastoral works, his contributions to confessional documents for use in churches, and his massive outpouring of commentary on the Bible, meant that Calvin had a direct personal influence on Protestantism.

The movement's rabbinic authorities and its official Torah commentary ( Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary ) affirm that Jews should make use of modern critical literary and historical analysis to understand how the Bible developed.

Several years later, with his brother, Isaac, Jacob published the Bible commentary Miklal Yofi by Solomon ben Melekh which included his own commentary, Lekket Shikchah ( Gleanings ), on the Pentateuch, the Book of Joshua, and part of the Book of Judges.

He is famed as the author of a comprehensive commentary on the Talmud, as well as a comprehensive commentary on the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ).

Phyllis Trible, however, published " Depatriarchalizing in Biblical Interpretation " in 1973, offering a reading of the Song with a positive representation of sexuality and egalitarian gender relations, which was widely discussed, notably ( and favourably ) in Marvin Pope's major commentary for the Anchor Bible.

According to the commentary of the same scholar this does not refer to Jewish converts to Islam, rather the main corpus of the Jews, arguing that it refers to the traditions mentioned in the Bible: " His window being open in his chambers towards Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God as he gave aforetime.

Some Bible translations such as the Geneva Bible included annotations and commentary that were anti-Roman Catholic.

The term midrash also can refer to a compilation of Midrashic teachings, in the form of legal, exegetical, homiletical, or narrative writing, often configured as a commentary on the Bible or Mishnah.

Others who have accepted the Lederer / Cook explanation of the two methods of dating for the time of Pekah are Thiele in his second edition of Mysterious Numbers and later, Leslie McFall, Francis Andersen and David Noel Freedman in their commentary on Hosea in the Anchor Bible Series, T. C. Mitchell, in the Cambridge Ancient History, and Jack Finegan in his Handbook of Biblical Chronology.

His reputation as an intelligent and acute expounder of the Bible was founded on his commentary on the Pentateuch, of which the great popularity is evidenced by the numerous commentaries which were written upon it.

While the Zionist movement was not founded during his lifetime, it is clear from his responses to Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer, and in several places in his commentary to the Bible and Siddur, that although he had a deep love for the land of Israel, he opposed a movement to wrest political independence for the land of Israel before the Messianic Era.

It was to arouse the interest of the Israeli Jews in the exposition of the Bible that Nahmanides wrote the greatest of his works, the above-mentioned commentary on the Torah.

These are often cited as the first original English language commentary on the Bible.

Most important, it printed what amounted to a commentary on the biblical text alongside the Bible instead of in a separate volume.

In Israel, children receiving a traditional Jewish education are taught Biblical Hebrew, and learn excerpts of the Torah ( first five books of the Bible ) and the Talmud ( commentary on the scriptures ).

In collaboration with the Reverend George D ' Oyly, Mant wrote a commentary on the whole Bible.

Doubts thus inculcated left me floundering for a while and, like some higher critical friends, trying to continue to use the Bible as the Word of God while at the same time holding it to have been subjected to a vast number of redactions and interpolations: attempting to bridge the chasm between an older, reverent, Bible-loving generation and a critical, doubting, Bible-emancipated race.

* Graham, M. P, and McKenzie, Steven L., " The Hebrew Bible today: an introduction to critical issues " ( Westminster John Knox Press, 1998 )

Bible scholar Raymond E. Brown asserts that about 80 % of critical scholarship judges that Paul did not write Ephesians, while Perrin and Duling say that of six authoritative scholarly references, " four of the six decide for pseudonymity, and the other two ( PCB and JBC ) recognize the difficulties in maintaining Pauline authorship.

Some critical scholars oppose the view that the sacred texts, including the Hebrew Bible, were divinely inspired.

Meanwhile, in the United States, wealthy Reform Jews helped European scholars, who were Orthodox in practice but critical ( and skeptical ) in their study of the Bible and Talmud, to establish a seminary to train rabbis for immigrants from Eastern Europe.

* Graham, M. P, and McKenzie, Steven L., " The Hebrew Bible today: an introduction to critical issues " ( Westminster John Knox Press, 1998 )

Standard critical editions are those of Souter, Vogels, Bover, Merk, and Nestle-Aland ( the text, though not the full critical apparatus of which is reproduced in the United Bible Societies ' " Greek New Testament ").

Notable translations of the New Testament based on these most recent critical editions include the Revised Standard Version ( 1946, revised in 1971 ), La Bible de Jérusalem ( 1961, revised in 1973 and 2000 ), the Einheitsübersetzung ( 1970, final edition 1979 ), the New American Bible ( 1970, revised in 1986 ), the Traduction Oecuménique de la Bible ( 1988, revised in 2004 ), and the New Revised Standard Version ( 1989 ).

Brian Moynahan, in his book God's Messenger: William Tyndale, Thomas More and the Writing of the English Bible, takes a similarly critical view of More, as does the American writer Michael Farris.

We believe that we should read the Bible as we read other books – with imagination and a critical eye.

After the Enlightenment, many Jews began to participate in wider European society, where they engaged in study related to critical methods of textual analysis, including both lower and higher criticism, the modern historical method, hermeneutics, and fields relevant to Bible study such as near-Eastern archaeology and linguistics.

Today, Reform, Conservative, and Reconstructionist rabbis draw on the lessons of modern critical Bible scholarship as well as the traditional forms of Biblical exegesis.

Orthodox, Sephardim, a majority of Israeli Jews and other Jews, including many whom are not observant, reject critical Bible scholarship and the documentary hypothesis, holding to the opinion that it is contradicted by the Torah in Deuteronomy 31: 24, 25 and 26, and the Talmud ( Gittin 60a, Bava Basra 15b ), which state that Moses wrote the Torah, as well as by the Mishnah, which asserts the divine origin of the Torah as one of the essential tenets of Judaism.

The group's next album, The Holy Bible, was released in August to critical acclaim, but sold poorly.

His writing was critical of Christianity and strongly influenced by socialism ; emotionally intense, humanistic, and employed ideas from the Bible, Tolstoy, and anarchic socialism.

The book's controversial assertions that the life of Jesus should be written like the life of any historic person, and that the Bible could and should be subject to the same critical scrutiny as other historical documents caused some controversy, and enraged many Christians.

He courageously tried to avoid allegorizing, which had had a long history ever since Philo of Alexandria had interpreted the Pentateuch in an allegorical fashion that de-literalized and over-metaphorized ( into symbolic systems ) many passages of the ancient manuscripts of the Bible ( now and developingly a critical text itself ).

In this retirement he gave himself to Oriental studies and carried through his great work, a Polyglot Bible which should be completer, cheaper and provided with a better critical apparatus than any previous work of the kind.

Influenced strongly by Karl Barth and other dialectical theologians of Europe, he began to emphasize the Bible as a human record of divine self-revelation ; it offered for Niebuhr a critical but redemptive reorientation of the understanding of man's nature and destiny.

They would not have thanked anyone for any allegorical explanation of some portions of the Holy Bible which is a stumbling block to some sinners, and possibly some saints.

Judaism has generally viewed Ishmael as wicked though repentant ( whereas Christianity omits any reference to repentance, which is sourced in the Talmudic explanation of the Hebrew Bible ).

Traditionally the term was used primarily for exegesis of the Bible ; however, in contemporary usage it has broadened to mean a critical explanation of any text, and the term " Biblical exegesis " is used for greater specificity.

Since the phrase " soul sleep " does not occur either in the Bible or in early Anabaptist materials, an explanation is required for the origin of the term.

The creation myth described has several similarities to other creation myths, including the use of primordial water ( similarly to the Bible ), the explanation of light and darkness, the separation of good and evil, and the explanation of time.

Thompson's explanation was to discount the Bible as literal history but Salibi's was to locate the centre of Jewish culture further south.

His greatest wish was to complete a translation and tafsir ( explanation ) of the Holy Qur ' an, and to do a commentary on the Bible.

The Book of Sentences had its precursor in the glosses ( an explanation or interpretation of a biblical text ) by the masters who lectured using Saint Jerome's Latin translation of the Bible ( the Vulgate ).

An alternative explanation, offered by Rabbis Reuven Margolies and Samson Raphael Hirsch, is that the haftarah reading was instituted to fight the influence of those sects in Judaism that viewed the Hebrew Bible as consisting only of the Torah.

Recent linguistic analysis is strengthening the case for the latter explanation, that is also more likely to convince those who consider the Bible to be a reliable historical document.

The Cathedral Library standing in the southern part of the town, which was built in 1853 according to plans by József Hild is one of the richest religious libraries of Hungary, accommodating approximately 250, 000 books, among which several codices and incunabula can be found, such as the Latin explanation of the ‘ Song of Songs ’ from the 12th century, the ‘ Lövöföldi Corvina ’ originating from donations of King Matthias, or the Jordánszky-codex, which includes the Hungarian translation of the Bible from 1516-1519.

In the book The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, Edwin R. Thiele proposed coregency as a possible explanation for discrepancies in the dates given in the Hebrew Bible for the reigns of the kings of Israel and Judah.

A classmate recounts how Elliot quoted the Bible to the president of the student body as explanation for his refusal to attend a school party.

Prior to the explanation above, the explanation of Sextus Julius Africanus that there had been a levirate marriage and that Joseph's grandfather Mattan ( descendant of Solomon ) had had a wife called " Esther " ( not recorded in the Bible ) with whom he fathered Jacob ( Joseph's father ), but Matthan died and Esther married Heli's father Melchi ( descendant of Nathan ).

The paleman is a Hamite through Ham ’ s fourth son, Libana ( Canaan ) whose descendants inherited his curse of leprosy ( Genesis 10: 15-18 ).” ( See also: Sons of Noah: Theories regarding racial classifications ) Another explanation has Caucasians descended from Cain: “ Adam and Eve were sent to the Aegean Islands between Asia and Europe, where they started having children, and each couple ’ s first born child was an Albino and those Albinos are called Cain in the Bible, and Cain is short for Caucasian .” ( See also: Curse and mark of Cain: Interpretations based on race )

A comprehensive explanation of how this phenomenon can occur naturally was later published in 1999 by Brendan McKay et al., although the Bible code continues to be explored and debated.

The Millo is described in the Bible as having been built by Solomon and repaired by Hezekiah, without giving an explanation of what exactly the Millo was.