I would like to do some bible study, keeping in mind the revisions done by our adversaries over the years and including the apocrypha (especially Enoch). I'm not keen to join a church, but I'm interested in perspectives. Any thoughts? I've always been a non-denominational Christian, but I'm just recently more interested in knowing what the bible tells us. Thank you in advance.
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The study bible I've found must useful is the New American Bible- yeah, it's one of the official Catholic Bibles, so you'll have to go get Enoch et al separately, but here's why it's awesome for study, and why I've found non-Catholics using it prodigiously as well:
Fresh translations from original sources to modern (50-60 years ago) English with copious footnotes of original culture/ language context, cross-references among books esp OT-NT (that Hebrews of the time would have recognized easily), maps, and notes of differences between gospels, with context. Tremendous time savers as well as enlightening for themes you'd not be aware of easily. Most of the work in it even in today's editions is from the deep work done decades ago, which has stood the skeptic, scholarly tests of time very well.