R. Mansfield Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 NEW for the Accordance Bible Software Library: INTERPRETATION BIBLICAL COMMENTARY, RESOURCES & BIBLE STUDIES--up to 50% OFF introductory pricing! On sale this week with introductory pricing: NEW! Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching & Preaching (43 volumes)--up to 32% OFF! NEW! Interpretation Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church (7 volumes)--up to 50% OFF! NEW! Interpretation Bible Studies (19 volumes)--up to 47% OFF! Or GET ALL THREE INTERPRETATION SERIES for ONE LOW PRICE--30% OFF! Interpretation Series Sale through April 10, 2017 (11:59 PM EDT). Cannot be combined with any other discounts. Requires Accordance 11.1 or above. For more information, see today's blog post! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ukfraser Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 The Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church (7 Volumes)look interesting. I have a commentary by ellen davis which i find useful. Does anyone have any experience of Using these in other formats for real? (I have downloaded some samples but not found any useful reviews and dont have access to hard copies i can sit down with). Its great to see accordance have resources i have not come across elsewhere. Many thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted April 4, 2017 Author Share Posted April 4, 2017 We will have some links to reviews posted before the sale ends. And I will have some more in-depth blog posts available later this week. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Francis Posted April 4, 2017 Share Posted April 4, 2017 (edited) I have loved the Commentaries and only just got the "resources" set... I hope that sooner than later when the 8th volume is released later this year it becomes quickly available in Accordance. Here is the TOC for one of the volumes: CONTENTS Series Foreword Foreword by Richard Horsley Preface CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION: A MATERIAL FAITH CHAPTER 2: ISRAEL’S CORE NARRATIVE: NO COVETING! CHAPTER 3: DEUTERONOMY: THE GREAT EITHER-OR OF NEIGHBORLINESS CHAPTER 4: JOSHUA, JUDGES, 1–2 SAMUEL, 1–2 KINGS: THE CONTEST CHAPTER 5: 1–2 CHRONICLES, EZRA, NEHEMIAH: EMPIRE AND EXTRACTION CHAPTER 6: THE PSALMS: TORAH, TEMPLE, WISDOM CHAPTER 7: PROVERBS AND JOB: WISE BEYOND SMART CHAPTER 8: THE PROPHETS: WEALTH ILL-GOTTEN AND LOST, WEALTH GIVEN AGAIN CHAPTER 9: THE FIVE SCROLLS: SCRIPTS OF LOSS AND HOPE, COMMODITY AND AGENCY CHAPTER 10: THE GOSPELS: PERFORMANCE OF AN ALTERNATIVE ECONOMY CHAPTER 11: ACTS: COMMUNITY AMID EMPIRE CHAPTER 12: PAUL: LIFE IN THE LAND OF DIVINE GENEROSITY CHAPTER 13: THE PASTORAL EPISTLES: ORDER IN THE HOUSEHOLD CHAPTER 14: THE LETTER OF JAMES: THE DEEP EITHER-OR OF PRACTICE CHAPTER 15: THE BOOK OF REVELATION: THE ULTIMATE ALTERNATIVE Bibliography Index of Scripture Index of Subjects Walter Brueggemann, Money and Possessions, Interpretation. Accordance electronic ed. (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2016), vii-viii. accord://read/Interpretation-Money#32 If we look at the opening paragraph to a section you get a feel for the style of this particular volume: CHAPTER 2 Israel’s Core Narrative No Coveting! The final utterance of God in the awesome confrontation at Mount Sinai is this: “You shall not covet” (Exod. 20:17). It is as though this fearsome God has saved the sharpest zinger for this final statement. This terse prohibition seems an appropriate pivot point to the core narrative of ancient Israel that was repeatedly reiterated in many variations in Israel. The narrative begins in the wondrous creation lyric of Genesis 1 that culminates in Sabbath (Gen. 2:1–4). It sweeps through the ancestral narratives of Genesis, the emancipation from Egypt, the brief narrative of wilderness sojourn, the defining confrontation at Sinai, and more travel to the edge of the land of promise. James Sanders has noticed that the normative text of the Torah (Pentateuch) does not bring Israel into the land of promise but only to the entry point.1 We might imagine with Michael Fishbane that the narrative account is from “Adamic” humanity to “Mosaic” humanity, that is, from creation to Sinai.2 If we trace this movement from Adam to Moses we may suggest that the core story is a story about coveting. At least this is one possible rendering that serves our topic of money and possessions. This tenth commandment refers to an originary attitude of desire, of being propelled in ways we do not understand to desire what is not properly our own, so that desire becomes a powerful, seductive force that skews one’s life. The commandment suggests that it is the stuff that the neighbor has (wife, house, anything) that evokes the seductive energy of desire. It requires, moreover, no great imagination to see that our current consumer society is much propelled by such desire that is in part natural but also is in some great part manufactured. The history of desire surely runs, in Christian tradition, all the way from Augustine to Adam Smith. Augustine is the great theologian of desire; he himself felt and noticed the compelling power of objects that become seductive and distorting of life.3 He recognized that our true desire is for God, but that distorted desire focuses on many lesser objects that interrupt a proper desire for God. In the modern world, Adam Smith, in his analysis of “sentiment,” noticed the way in which human persons can be propelled by wants; he observed further that such wants can be intentionally managed or manipulated.4 Thus the history of coveting, in the memory and tradition of ancient Israel, is the story of proper desire and distorted desire that causes a confusion of proper desire and distorted wanting. It is a story that continues among us. Walter Brueggemann, Money and Possessions, Interpretation. Accordance electronic ed. (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2016), 15-16. accord://read/Interpretation-Money#226 1. James A. Sanders, Torah and Canon (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1972), has seen that the canon of Torah stops short of land entry in order to serve the postexilic community of Judaism as it anticipated reentry into the land of promise. 2. Michael Fishbane, Sacred Attunement: A Jewish Theology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), 119. 3. See the dense study of Augustine’s analysis by Timo Nisula, Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence (Leiden: Brill, 2012). 4. Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759; repr., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976). With an altogether different set of intentions, see also Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (New York: Pantheon Books, 2012). Both Smith and Haidt long after him focus on emotive force in political and economic decisions, emotions that lie beneath and before the work of reason. Walter Brueggemann, Money and Possessions, Interpretation. Accordance electronic ed. (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2016), 33. accord://read/Interpretation-Money#338 To me from the sections I have read (the introductions and skimming through chapter 1) I would say it is a very good volume on the subject. It feels very wholistic in that as you see from the TOC it tries to examine the subject not from a book but from the Bible as a whole. Now obviously any subject drawing on the Bible likely will not be exhaustively studied in a work, but this one in particular draws generously from all sections of the Bible and is not afraid to reference works from conservative and liberal sources. I cannot yet say if I will find the set as valuable as the commentaries but I dare think from what I have seen it may well prove to be something I will return to often. -Dan EDIT: Added in the 4 footnotes to give the sample a better context. Edited April 4, 2017 by Daniel Francis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 Today on the Accordance Blog, take "A Closer Look at Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching & Preaching." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Daniel Francis Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 (edited) I am not trying to be overly nit picky but then again I suppose I would be quiet if I truly felt that way.... It feels odd that so many of the dates given for your volumes are 2011.... checking in on most of them in Kindle previews has confirmed in all cases I investigated 2011 was the year that the paperback was released for the volumes and the original publication date is below it. Indeed one could argue Genesis should be list as 2010 since that is when it's paperback version was released. When I first saw your closer look I thought to myself maybe I should get this in Accordance I had no idea so many volumes had been updated, but upon investigation of the volumes I looked at it was simple PB dates and no indication that any changes to the corse of the text had occurred. This is a very fine series that has much to commend it but the dates provided feel confusing (there well may be a late second edition of a volume in there somewhere I did not find too, but of that i am not aware). -dan Corrected dates I believe are (verified via kindle editions all stating reprints originally published with the exception of Hebrews and Esther which are not available in Kindle format, those dates only confirmed via HC publishing date): Exodus (Terence E. Fretheim, 2010) ---> 1991 Judges (J. Clinton McCann, 2011) ---> 2002 Esther (Carol M. Bechtel, 2011) ---> 2002 Psalms (James L. Mays, 2011) ---> 1994 Ecclesiastes (William P. Brown, 2011) ---> 2000 Hosea–Micah (James Limburg, 2011) ---> 1988 Acts (William H. Willimon, 2010) ---> 1988 First Corinthians (Richard B. Hays, 2011) ---> 1997 Hebrews (Thomas G. Long, 2011) ---> 1997 Revelation (M. Eugene Boring, 2011) ---> 1989 Edited April 5, 2017 by Daniel Francis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 Check out Joel Watts' review, "The Interpretation Series on @AccordanceBible" at the Unsettled Christianity website. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted April 5, 2017 Author Share Posted April 5, 2017 I am not trying to be overly nit picky but then again I suppose I would be quiet if I truly felt that way.... It feels odd that so many of the dates given for your volumes are 2011.... Honestly, I don't know. Maybe Rick Bennett can chime in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Francis Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 (edited) It's not a big deal just don't want people thinking a quarter of the volumes have been updated and then finding it wasn't the case. Like I said I got kind of excited before i realized they were the PB release dates and not a revision of any type. Wanted to use all the PB release dates i think all them were done 2010-2012... -dan Edited April 5, 2017 by Daniel Francis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Bennett Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 It's not a big deal just don't want people thinking a quarter of the volumes have been updated and then finding it wasn't the case. Like I said I got kind of excited before i realized they were the PB release dates and not a revision of any type. Wanted to use all the PB release dates i think all them were done 2010-2012... -dan We just pulled the dates from the front matter without verifying. This all gets very confusing at times as we are often not supplied anything more from the publishers. We'll update them accordingly. Thanks for the feedback. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Francis Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Well I knew Accordance was not attempting to mislead anyone, when you are working with so many works (I can't imagine how many dozens of works you might be currently working on) it can be real easy to make little errors. Even publishers sometimes make seeming errors.... The kindle edition of Exodus by Terence E. Fretheim claims an original publication release date of 1988... this is despite the fact the preface is dated Christmas 1989 and the publication date on the printed book is 1991 with no indication of a previous publication date of 1988. So when you end up with something that confusing from the publisher how are you at a quick glance to know what is right. I do not think WJKP is attempting anything misleading either, just unintended confusion. -dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted April 6, 2017 Author Share Posted April 6, 2017 Dan, it may even be that WJK made some minor tweaks or corrections on those volumes. There's been some internal discussion about what to do. Obviously, no one is trying to mislead anyone else, but it may be best to stay with the dates they gave us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted April 6, 2017 Author Share Posted April 6, 2017 New post on the Accordance blog: "Take a Closer Look at Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted April 6, 2017 Author Share Posted April 6, 2017 Mac screenshot from Creach's Violence in Scripture (Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church) iPhone 7 Plus screenshot from Lischer's Reading the Parables (Interpretation: Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Francis Posted April 6, 2017 Share Posted April 6, 2017 That's sensible I have written WJKP to ask them: What improvements from the original hard covers will I find in the new editions? -dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 Check out "Interpretation Bundle--An Accordance Review" on Wesley Allen's Painfully Hopeful website. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted April 7, 2017 Author Share Posted April 7, 2017 Worth your time: Joel Watts describes his experience of the Interpretation Series on an older iPad 2 in Accordance Mobile (Unsettled Christianity website). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted April 10, 2017 Author Share Posted April 10, 2017 Heads up! Introductory pricing on the Interpretation Commentary, Resources, and Bible Studies ENDS at MIDNIGHT TONIGHT EDT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted April 10, 2017 Author Share Posted April 10, 2017 A few more posts: "A Closer Look at Interpretation Bible Studies" (Accordance Blog) "How to Read a Book in Accordance (Screencast)" (Word on the Word) "Galatians 1:1 with @AccordanceBible and Interpretation Series" (Unsettled Christianity) Screenshot of Interpretation Bible Studies in Accordance 12-- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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