THE
C. S. Lewis
BIBLE
NEW REVISED STANDARD VERSION
The following abbreviations are used for the books of the Bible:
OLD TESTAMENT
Gen |
Ex |
Lev |
Num |
Deut |
Josh |
Judg |
Ruth |
1 Sam |
2 Sam |
1 Kings |
2 Kings |
1 Chr |
2 Chr |
Ezra |
Neh |
Esth |
Job |
Ps(s) |
Prov |
Eccl |
Song |
Isa |
Jer |
Lam |
Ezek |
Dan |
Hos |
Joel |
Am |
Ob |
Jon |
Mic |
Nah |
Hab |
Zeph |
Hag |
Zech |
Mal |
NEW TESTAMENT
Mt |
Mk |
Lk |
Jn |
Acts |
Rom |
1 Cor |
2 Cor |
Gal |
Eph |
Phil |
Col |
1 Thess |
2 Thess |
1 Tim |
2 Tim |
Titus |
Philem |
Heb |
Jas |
1 Pet |
2 Pet |
1 Jn |
2 Jn |
3 Jn |
Jude |
Rev |
In the notes to the books of the Old Testament, the following abbreviations are used:
Ant. | Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews |
Aram | Aramaic |
Ch(s) | Chapter(s) |
Cn | Correction; made where the text has suffered in transmission and the versions provide no satisfactory restoration, but where the Standard Bible Committee agrees with the judgment of competent scholars as to the most probable reconstruction of the original text. |
Gk | Septuagint; Greek version of the Old Testament |
Heb | Hebrew of the consonantal Masoretic Text of the Old Testament |
Josephus | Flavius Josephus (Jewish historian, about A.D. 37 to about 95) |
Macc. | The book(s) of the Maccabees |
Ms(s) | Manuscript(s) |
MT | The Hebrew of the pointed Masoretic text of the Old Testament |
OL | Old Latin |
Q Ms(s) | Manuscript(s) found at Qumran by the Dead Sea |
Sam | Samaritan Hebrew text of the Old Testament |
Syr | Syriac Version of the Old Testament |
Syr H | Syriac Version of Origens Hexapla |
Tg | Targum |
Vg | Vulgate; Latin Version of the Old Testament |
Project Editors
Marlene Baer Hekkert and Michael G. Maudlin
Managing Editor
Patricia Klein
Consulting Editors
Douglas Gresham and Jerry Root
Production Editor
Suzanne Quist
ADVISORY BOARD
Gayne Anacker is vice president of the C. S. Lewis Foundation and professor of philosophy at California Baptist University.
Sarah Arthur is a founding board member of the award-winning Michigan C. S. Lewis Festival and the author of numerous youth resources on C. S. Lewis, including Walking through the Wardrobe.
Devin Brown is a Lilly Scholar and a professor of English at Asbury University, where he teaches a class on C. S. Lewis. He is the author of Inside Narnia, Inside Prince Caspian, and Inside the Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
Michael J. Christensen is director of the Shalom Initiative for Prophetic Leadership and Community Development and affiliate associate professor of spirituality and religious studies at Drew University. He is also an ordained United Methodist minister and the author of C. S. Lewis on Scripture.
Fr. Andrew Cuneo is a priest in the Orthodox Church and has taught English literature at Hillsdale College. He obtained his M.Phil. and D.Phil. in English from Merton College at the University of Oxford.
Lyle Dorsett is the Billy Graham Professor of Evangelism at Beeson Divinity School and was the former head of the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College. He is also the author of And God Came In: The Extraordinary Story of Joy Davidman and Seeking the Secret Place: The Spiritual Formation of C. S. Lewis.
Colin Duriez has written several books on C. S. Lewis and the Inklings, including The C. S. Lewis Encyclopedia,The Inklings Handbook (with the late David Porter), J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis: The Gift of Friendship, and A Field Guide to Narnia. He has also appeared as a commentator on C. S. Lewis on DVD and on television, including productions for the BBC and PBS.
Bruce L. Edwards is professor of English and Africana studies at Bowling Green State University (Ohio) and has served as a C. S. Lewis Foundation Fellow at the Kilns in Oxford, England. He is also the editor of C. S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy.
Paul Ford is a professor of systematic theology and liturgy at St. Johns Seminary, is an internationally recognized authority on the life and writings of C. S. Lewis, and is the award-winning author of Companion to Narnia and editor of Words to Live By: A Dictionary for the Mere Christian and Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C. S. Lewis.
Garry Friesen is a professor of Bible at Multnomah Bible College, where he teaches a course on C. S. Lewis. His Ph.D. is from Dallas Seminary, where he did a masters thesis on Lewiss view of Scripture. Garry mentors six college students at his house, which has a Narnia theme that brings hundreds every year for a tour. He is an elder at Imago Dei Community and has just finished twenty years work on a C. S. Lewis Scripture index with ten thousand entries.
Walter Hooper is a trustee and literary adviser of the estate of C. S. Lewis. In 1963 he served briefly as Lewiss private secretary, and after Lewiss death he devoted himself to Lewiss memory, eventually taking up residence in Oxford, England, where he now lives.
Reed Jolley is a pastor at Santa Barbara Community Church and contributor to C. S. Lewis: Lightbearer in the Shadowlands.
Don King is professor of English at Montreat College, editor of the Christian Scholars Review, and the author of three books, including C. S. Lewis, Poet: The Legacy of His Poetic Impulse.
Art Lindsley is a senior fellow at the C. S. Lewis Institute and is the author of C. S. Lewiss Case for Christ.
Marjorie Lamp Mead is associate director of the Marion E. Wade Center, Wheaton College (Illinois). She is coeditor of
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