The Orthodox Study Bible, Hardcover: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

God bless those who made this book. Such good quality and such great knowledge

Beautiful bible, easy to use. By far the favourite of a lot of Orthodox Christian and those new to the faith, it's not hard to see why. Good quality. Of course it's quite a book book so not always handy to travel with, but you can always get a smaller bible such as a KJV for when you travel. Highly recommended, excellent value. Was delivered quickly with the minimum packaging and waste therefore. Easy read.

Great book it has some nice pictures of icons. The paper is thin but enough. The lettering is easy to read. So good my social landlord has stolen it twice and the second time just one month after the last. You would think the government has other things to do than steal from the poor.

the bible is constructed fantastically, it comes with a boat load of information from the fist few pages, giving an overview of the books, the church and the fundamental principles of christianity. the paper is great, its thin but thick enough to write upon/see without other text seeping through from the next page; the font is clear and easy to read. it provides the reader with context on each book, while constantly immersing them with the numerous icons scattered throughout, full of colour and clarity. the bible does include maps and footnotes - as of which are my favourite in all of my bibles, they are easy to read but provide a lot of information and context which some readers may not have picked up when casually reading or studying. overall, great bible; would absolutely recommend.

Very pleased with this. Included: A nice colour first page to inscribe names on. All the Apocryphal books are included, in their right order. Lots of great easy to understand foot notes. Lovely full colour plates throughout. A glossary, article indepth on how to read the bible. A lectionary. Full colour maps. An index linking words to bible verses. So Index to both annotations and study articles. The bible Gods revelation to man notes. Morning and evening prayers. The seventy disciples of Christ. And their biblical references. Table of contents and order. Introduction to the Orthodox bible. A list of books it has, compared to both the Catholic and Protestant versions of the bible. The Orthodox having the most, the Catholic the next and the Protestant the least.... An over view of the bible old and newer scriptures. An introduction to the Eastern Orthodox Church and why it is including the great schism. This has it ALL in! As well as the actual bible scriptures! Worth every single penny. Pages are thing, but clear. And of a decent size. I can read them without my readying glasses, just my normal ones. You will not be sorry to own this.

The Bible itself has the classic look and feel of many Protestant/Evangelical study Bibles. It has a very attractive dust jacket, but the hardback cover itself is also very nice looking, with a burgundy "church pew" look. I do not feel that it is quite up to the standard of other study Bibles in its class in terms of quality of the materials used to produce it. So I feel that it loses 1 star for its quality (when compared to other study Bible I have. I enjoyed the introduction to the Orthodox Church at the front, but I found (perhaps necessarily so) that it was very short, and over simplified the issues at stake. A good book on the subject would be Timothy Ware's The Orthodox Church I enjoyed the various study articles, which expounded a little more on the beliefs of the Orthodox church. My main interest in this Bible is its inclusion of the Septuagint version of the OT, which is the version most quoted by Jesus and His Apostles, and also its inclusion of the Apocrypha (Deuterocanon), which was quoted and read by the Apostles and the Early Church. The notes are somewhat interesting in giving another perspective from the normal evangelical one. The many quotes from the Early Church Writers including the Ante-Nicene Writers was a very nice touch, though not very clear or in depth. Many of the notes (At least in the Torah) are very repetetive. In Genesis for example, everytime The Lord speaks or appears, the notes make a point of saying something like "This is the Word of God, the second person of the Trinity. This Word is the Son of God". Or if the Angel appears, it says something very similar. It got broing real quick and put me off the notes. I didn't even want to read them after a while, as I found them more distracting than anything else. I wanted something more meaty. Considering the lack of resources on the Early Church, this is a good buy overall. It should be an introduction into a very complex, yet satisfying issue (Church history), but you couldn't stop there. Update 2013: I've decided to read through the Bible in 4 months. A big task, especially since I've chosen to read the Orthdoox Study Bible, which has 76 books as compared to the Protestant 66. 4 chapters 3 times per day for a total of 12. It's difficult to always find the time. And I find myself speed reading through much of the Torah, with it's long genealogies and who did what and how for each of the 12 tribes. Anyway, all that to say that I have been finding a few printing errors. I wil post as I find but here are two so far that I have found: Leviticus 13:55, Numbers 9:21

I've been interested in Religious Studies and Theology for a while and have been looking forward to adding the Orthodox Study Bible to my collection. As you can see in the images, the product looks fantastic! I have only seen a tiny crease on a few pages; thankfully, it does not affect the book's quality in any way. The word printing is nice and clear and the hardback cover feels great. While I haven't given it a good read yet, from the bits I've skimmed, the wording is clear and easy to follow. I highly recommend this book!

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