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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