The New Interpreter's Bible

Abingdon's successor to the Interpreter's Bible of the 1950s, begun in 1990, published volume by volume from 1994, and completed with the twelfth volume in July 2002; a general index followed in 2004. Around ninety-seven contributors from twenty-one denominations wrote it, among them twenty-one women and scholars of African American, Hispanic American, Native American and Asian American background — a deliberately broader authorship than the original series had. Leander E. Keck of Yale Divinity School convened the editorial board and served as senior New Testament editor, with the stated aim of making current biblical scholarship available to a wide readership without talking down to it.¹ Each biblical book, the Apocryphal and Deuterocanonical books included, is given an introduction, the NIV and NRSV texts in parallel columns, verse-by-verse commentary, and a section of Reflections on the passage's use in the church.²

1. 1.Worldwide Faith News — “Abingdon Press completes ‘New Interpreter's Bible’” (2002): dates, contributor counts, Keck's role
2. 2.Accordance — The New Interpreter's Bible (format: parallel NIV/NRSV, commentary, Reflections)