gregor2

Is anyone aware of a good bible with concordance written from a scholarly, rather than evangelical, perspective. I'm looking for something with included textual and higher criticism. I'd like included history from the likes of Koester and Mack, comparative texts and discussions of heresies from folks like Ehrman and Pagels, Christologies from Crossan, Funk, Meier, and the like.

So when it's time for Bible study - you receive an unbiased look at a pericope or epistle; you can learn who scholars think the text was meant to counter, support, distinguish; you can find areas where people believe interpolation and editing occurred.

Can Santa drop such a thing in my stocking?

Doc B

For online work there's SAB. They have a bookstore but I'm not sure if you'll find what you're looking for in a dead-tree form.

Toto

I think he want something more sophisticated than the SAB.

I don't know of a single such book. I think it would have to be an encyclopedia to include all of what you list.

LeeBuhrul

Secret Origins of the Bible

Intelligitimate

The Oxford Annotated and the Harper Collins are both probably as close as it gets to what you're looking for. There is a scholarly introduction before each chapter, and all the verses that are in dispute are noted in the footnotes, along with the usual helpful footnotes found in any decent study bible. Or you might want to try an Intro text like Brown's.

gregor

Thanks, all.
I guess I'm really looking for something that doesn't exist. As Toto indicates, an OT and NT bible that even references a fair cross section of critical biblical scholarship might be too heavy to transport.

Atheist_Mama

Sounds like a good idea! You should write it I don't think it would be too long of a manuscript, I think the problem would be finding a publisher for such a controversial peice. That is probably why SAB is on the web