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I bought this Bible because I wanted to read the Bible chronologically, with the added benefit of a study and maps. I have read through it each day, a little at a time, for over a year now, and I am about halfway through. While I have greatly benefitted from the timelines, the historical summaries, and the interesting facts about the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia, I doubt the commentaries were even written by Christians. They equate the worship of Yahweh with that of Baal and Molech. There’s no recognition that Isreal was God’s chosen people in the Old Testament at all. It seems the authors’ goals are to equate the Hebrew culture with all the pagan cultures around them, which isn’t culturally or biblically accurate. Whereas I agree that initially in Abraham’s generation some things would have been influenced, naturally, from the pagan cultures Abraham came out of, the rituals that became distinctly Hebrew were indeed handed down to them directly from God. They weren’t borrowed. If there are similarities, it’s bc the pagan cultures crudely imitated God’s Divine design, not the reverse. I’ve come too far to stop reading now, but i’m grateful that I can tell truth from worldly error in these commentaries, and I am just skimming over them. If you are looking for a resource written by a team that promotes God’s glory among the nations, sadly, this is not it. Wish I could have rated this higher.