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The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World | 
 enlarge | Author: Thomas Nelson
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
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Pages: 1984
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Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.1 x 1.8
ISBN: 0718019083
Dewey Decimal Number: 220
EAN: 9780718019082
ASIN: 0718019083
Publication Date: June 17, 2008
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Product Description
The FIRST EVER Orthodox Study Bible presents the Bible of the early church and the church of the early Bible. Orthodox Christianity is the face of ancient Christianity to the modern world and embraces the second largest body of Christians in the world. In this first-of-its-kind study Bible, the Bible is presented with commentary from the ancient Christian perspective that speaks to those Christians who seek a deeper experience of the roots of their faith. Features Include:
- Old Testament newly translated from the Greek text of the Septuagint, including the Deuterocanon
- New Testament from the New King James Version
- Commentary drawn from the early Church Christians
- Easy-to-Locate liturgical readings
- Book Introductions and Outlines
- Subject Index
- Full-color Icons
- Full-color Maps
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PRELIMINARY REVIEW October 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Normally I don't do this... I'll give a product a good going over before I review it. However this is "on order" as a gift from a family member, but I couldn't wait, I saw it in the store and thumbed through it for a few minutes.
My initial impressions appear here. Set aside the "controversy" you've been seeing on here (granted, I'm Catholic, not Orthodox, so I might be missing something). This is a translation of the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament), and the New Testament is the New King James Version.
This is a nice hardcover Bible, with some big colorful icons interspersed. There are nice introductions and foot notes for each book, traditional interpretations of what each book says and who wrote it, plus extensive prayers, "how to read the bible," canon lists, and liturgical calendar type stuff in the back (maps and the like as well).
As expected, this includes the Deuterocanonical books found in Catholic bibles, placed in the traditional order for Orthodox (Orthodox view the Septuagint itself, which always included these "extra" books not found in the Hebrew, as the inspired canon of the "Old Testament") plus the Anagignoskenomena not found in the Catholic canon (ex: 3 Maccabees, 1 Esdras). Some of the books are named differently as well, keeping with Orthodox tradition (1-2 Samuel and 1-2 Kings are known as "1-4 Kingdoms").
I didn't check to see if the Psalms were numbered according to the LXX or were the Septuagint (rather than Masoretic) translation. I know that was a sticking point with some Orthodox, but I didn't have the time to compare.
This provides a both a handy reference for the Bible, from a Christian believer's standpoint, and also a nice introduction to some basic Orthodoxy for non-Orthodox.
I liked the fact that the CHURCH FATHERS are referenced in the footnotes, showing for example what John Chrysostom thought of certain passages of the Gospel of John.
The trouble is, and hopefully this will be fixed in a future addition, there is no SPECIFIC CITATION given. So if I want to know in what book John Chrysostom said such and such, I have go to looking through his complete works to find out. Not everyone realizes you can look that stuff up online, but it would have been nicer, if they had done the quotations like David Bercot's "A Dictionary of Early Christian Beliefs" which gave specific citations. So we're just trusting the author that the Patristic writer really said this somewhere (though it may be a paraphrase).
The pages are thinner than expected and the book is surprisingly lightweight, but feels good in the hands. The paper isn't too cheap (I hate "newsprint" type bibles).
I'll probably revise this once I own the thing myself and have more time to use it, but for now, it's worth getting... an above average Bible, and has a certain "one-of-a-kind-ness" to it even if you already own a half a dozen Bibles (like I do).
Oh, and it's missing 4 Maccabees, but then I guess that text was never considered "canonical" by the Eastern Orthodox church, and was only in an "appendix" to the Septuagint (unlike 1-3 Maccabees).
What I've seen so far is good, though there could be a few improvements (like direct citations of the Patristic commentary).
 Marvelous Source of Biblical and Patristic Wisdom September 15, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Orthodox Study Bible is a marvelous source of Biblical and Patristic wisdom for which Orthodox Christians have waited with great eagerness. We do, however, miss the red lettering of the words of our Lord as found in the New Testament which preceded this wonderful work. I can not praise this resource enough! Congratulations to all who worked on it.
Wonderful! September 10, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a very good Bible for Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike. The notes are very well written, though some of the OT notes are a little shallow (e.g. for Tobit). But simply having notes from an Orthodox perspective is a gift to us all.
Having the whole OT canon is also fantastic, and the translation is very readable.
Perhaps the most welcome surprise is that the notes for the 4 Gospels have been substantially updated for the better. For example, compare the notes for Luke in the previous version and this one. The new notes are head and shoulders above the others.
If this Bible has a flaw, it is that the paper is thin and the margins are narrow, but this does not take away from the book as a whole.
Yes, there are some who won't like it simply because it exists. What can you do? Don't let those nay-sayers turn you away. It's a wonderful resource, and very spiritually uplifting.
We own two copieis in our home, and they get used a lot!
 Could have been better August 14, 2008
11 out of 14 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, I am not pleased with this release of the Orthodox Study Bible. (And it's not because I also have translated the Greek Septuagint.)
My main reason is this:
The editors have totally renumbered the verses in the Old Testament, making it practically impossible to follow along and compare with other editions.
In my edition, I informed the readers that "The LXX omits this verse." This makes it easier to follow along, for the non-orthodox reader, who wants to compare this edition with what they are familiar with, to learn more about the Septuagint. Books like 1 Samuel now are virtually impossible to compare one translation with another.
Other than that, it is nice to have a contemporary Bible that uses the Greek Septuagint as the Old Testament text.
Christ is in our midst! August 12, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
The publication of the complete Orthodox Study Bible is indeed a most important event for all English-speaking Eastern Orthodox and other Liturgical Christians of the One True Apostolic Tradition (Old Catholics, Roman Catholics - and the Eastern Churches in Communion with them, Independent Catholics, Anglicans/Episcopalians, etc.) The scholars involved in this project have obviously laboured long and hard, the resulting translation being reverent and literal, the notes informative, and the general presentation beautiful. As Metropolitan Archbishop of the Ancient Orthodox Eparchy of Maryland, I am well-pleased to give this edition of the Holy Bible my Most Sacred Patriarchal and Apostolic Benediction as well as my absolute highest praise and recommendation to all.
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