The Anabaptist Community Bible is intended to help present-day Christians imitate the first Anabaptists’ communal, Christocentric engagement with Scripture as the authoritative Word of God. It’s a thoughtful and thought-provoking project, valuable particularly for its integration of commentary from historic Anabaptist figures and for the revealing glimpse it gives of Anabaptism in America today. (Not all the community and scholarly notes come from the United States, but skimming the remarkable list of contributing study groups and institutional affiliations, all of which state their locations, indicates these are overwhelmingly American.)

The Anabaptist Community Bible marks the tradition’s five hundredth anniversary with historic and contemporary insights.