Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World
    The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World
    The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World
    Ebook5,352 pages105 hours

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

    By Thomas Nelson

    4.5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    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
    • Index to Annotations
    • Index to Study Articles
    • Full-color Maps
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateFeb 26, 2008
    ISBN9781418576363
    The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World

    Read more from Thomas Nelson

    Related to The Orthodox Study Bible

    Related ebooks

    Christianity For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Orthodox Study Bible

    4.5/5

    76 ratings4 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Great Bible specific for Orthodox Christians. Truly an invaluable tool that has so much information, explanations and helpful tips throughout. I personally love pairing the readings with the daily Orthodox Scriptures podcast on Ancient Faith Radio with Father Alexis. The prayers in the end are also very helpful to have and to recite. Great book.
    • 5/5
      The OT is great because it’s a new translation of the Septuagint. The NT is less great, because the editors decided to use the NKJV, a comparatively weak translation among other contemporary ones. But the study notes are the reason to read this one. As a United Methodist the Eastern Orthodox perspective was great to be immersed in, especially how many of the OT notes are Christological interpretations, and how many of all the notes refer to the use of Scripture in the liturgy and at particular times of the church year. One annoyance was times when notes referred to “the Church teaches” rather than naming the particular Church Father or other source of an interpretation, cutting off further reading and further following curiosity to the sources.
    • 3/5
      I was very excited when this Bible was released, but I have found a few issues with it. First, a technical note: the tiny gutter really is annoying, I can’t imagine trying to use it in church to give a reading, perhaps they can produce a “pulpit” version next? In general, I find most “study” Bibles to exhibit very poor scholarship, and this one is no exception unfortunately. The Author/Date/Theme sections beginning each book are generally not worth the paper they are written on. The “Date” section is the worst offender. It would have been far more useful to change “Date” to “Setting” and say that a particular book is “set” during a certain time. For example, Genesis is said to have been “written during Israel’s forty years of wandering in the wilderness, in the time between the crossing of the Red Sea and the entrance into Canaan.” Oh? Based upon what evidence? Not only is this information not useful, adding nothing to the text of the book itself, but it is quite questionable and misleading. It would have been far better to say that Genesis is “Set” during the time of the earliest history of the world until Israel’s entrance into Egypt. Also Daniel, never a fun book to date, but the OSB says “Traditionally thought to have been written during the Babylonian captivity (603-530 BC).” Never mind the fact that this is another example of the overuse of the passive voice throughout the OSB, but who are the people who “traditionally thought” about the dates Daniel was written? I can’t think of anyone in Second Temple Judaism or ancient Christianity who was interested in such a question, much less put forth a “traditional thought” on the subject. The only “traditional thought” which assigns such a date to Daniel are those who hold to verbal plenary inspiration, which is a rather peculiar Protestant construction which has little to do with Orthodox traditional thinking. Since this note also applies to Susanna and Bel and the Dragon it opens the distinct possibility that academia will simply hold the OSB up for ridicule, and on this point they would well within their rights to do so.Also, I found many notes to be rather strained and ignorant. For example: Jeremiah 2:13 “For my people have committed two evils: They forsook Me, the fountain of living water, and hewed for themselves broken cisterns, unable to hold water.” The note reads “In both the old covenant and the new, the problem is the same: people forsake God, the living water, and damage the cisterns or containers, the places of God’s dwelling. As Orthodox believers, therefore, we adhere both to Christ and His Church.” Besides the awkward prose and the unnecessary comma in the first clause, this comment misses the point of the verse entirely. First, a cistern is not a container. Cisterns are large underground sealed caverns built in order to store water from the rainy season in order to have water in the dry season. Second, where you have “living water” you do not need to have a cistern. Living water unceasingly flows up from the ground, you don’t need to store it. Simply put, there are no cisterns in Dan. Such a thought is just silly. Third, it misses the connection of this verse to John 4, where Jesus tells the Samaritan woman, as she is drawing water from a cistern, that he is “living water.” Fourth, I think it is profanity to equate a cistern with God’s dwelling place. God’s dwelling place is the Temple, not a cistern filled with old, dirty, and stale water. Nothing in the rest of the Bible supports such an equation of images. In short, living water is good, cisterns are bad, having living water but building cisterns anyways, and leaky one’s at that, is an image which shows the stupidity of Israel’s unfaithfulness.I also think it is unfortunate that Archimandrite Ephrem’s critiques were not the least bit engaged with. Sure, parts of his critique were subjective, a matter of personal taste, but other parts were spot on. He’s a good scholar, and a great Christian, ignoring him is rather inexcusable.I would like to see us work towards a Revised version (ROSB?) which uses the research of the NETS and is less dependent upon “traditional” Protestant understandings of the Bible.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Just simply the BEST Study Bible EVER! NKJV can be problematic to perceive in times, but nether the less, it's a Study Bible and it's Orthodox. And the History links and the Church Father's quotations are priceless.

      1 person found this helpful

    Book preview

    The Orthodox Study Bible - Thomas Nelson

    {%Aabook_preview_excerpt.html}rGو!m?E;$J-:"=Bni8\79{2Or̪ygFU]Ukfɴ2kڱM"if6wӯʧ.[7nMV'w"<2s໪F/gn٤,Ї^T{7,OL>N.lfye,~b.[7ui׮)ޙMY17ufu'Y1-?H\Ӓ.E_(Κ39?IF zn/9kf&7k,I1馢y z"l7'׶n cs0ە-L]^"\] ddmqRTIeˊx6 }*4VsG%3J as1HÇ% hvyc<>'m'~!'!_Rf^ ?50yr?żlcQQx0 i`5ssc\ǚ1YrWT7X̥Eb*/e _y[7\֟-0KaӃ[{koo:=휦!tT''fy#mo3ɄO`B}L(<0Mx_to<= cJ'SSlaEN=0YCu@9@ճɓ'ãGiMEgWv֞tZ(}Mʤ>; q# QQ^==zz;үWM6-cxkNJ[z/q:+=q:yjfLk#B#ܟFuz|w J#xS8x]<U7pq|Er}~u}vyZ¯ޞT4yU[omf

    #r1Ϩ籊~+  $ 4 D T dt0dBX!Ða0dz2A "LCe2] 0LC&!Ɛc1d X!ȐidD2d*2 w9)FćjUŭF쏽*b|˿i8 Shg#D~gk\Mǯ*Uvb.{ktRivmټ'cܗ.Tm/nd]ﲷ #3kO협ioyd˙ɷi,h:5n,,%Z;KOgum>agTw8Άo3S*6s4/gW='ymI\D3.$6ӪY:1eFWb)WS` 9( +cPTc] *RBV]4;co NIDZ'WvfZIpR4vlsg-TAqIDq>B]#u6uxx+3 ' < fnqU=W5Եl%fP<=ZܲW䡈 jH tK~"{e6C/`9DW~FO^9t:BL[ޡ" 1uZɪ΢7(_c'*P^a (X#؃_e}u%* zaU}%{b}oI)IՈPq{eE\C0)#$^2-=I,yk~pD_wEFm;:V"3fW%j2}?l;JDgWz:w!{%qj+%\x`xr#N35k Om9C^Y妠<^ƟL޼l3b}DWWDMWX |&O|e);_rCY!zf̜օ 'AHotwOx[)mNE>gH%кw9on7PAz´3 ^ |+icq@{ko158c+Ko3y I(~HݍE ]xl @'5t%&\u :S@ԃ6˂c? Tǿ\DB:ϊAD'}@j̈^i9dbK2L@>zG8ziܜGG%eY //ArD[5gy̌MOj-qA"IE&"Y5'>qϭr8y KG2:|}'ht%)E Qai=/DxV S,ɒYzP<"]!`xgP:WJ vN8;.aAv ݋o^~2>#"`@3syKwc ௚z %bݸjk"rOM~>v{IJtj!<&8ɓO׸UB&\Yn?> gӟSj݆^}AObb|y'U%Sz*ȘYN}_ ZAe?KYwlA5$Vro.-2%!a{L۴ kI.eJWsD!gx/7n(!_c8r4A!VNR%qStW.{H\SӉl!Xl%ܦwEEmu54ū (i@*q Kr^i1h 'ԆAwO OЀРه`E3J Ί"ݥd[Xo5 ¦7 KI򳌉2xLM 7 %d&WwUX=a (isON5SSܢDl9u+I3ф/$iI3%=c۪5!0aHvq/4qfUCp"˪eR\n%I@ N~ ]yl 7@ L⭄$i*=,+B?1JO=CBeU'<%/J|~ 3 k+b.땙ˏa@Ժ{!E_'TT~itHpy2ZnL4_Ó;<=7rtuLJ.[>:?pc+Z'ܾ#g Mt9X!>lK{ݯ<~3}akmdxXxv-{ޑ|h}Ѷ56~{b4-$6NR9Nn҆v8oxp7Fm %w_\ ]CORH1"a6?zE#NOvdۄ."" +_ľHqݮjzkC{>2mpDe/q6uwư0D;xIq7Htv^H:t{pzwD ߡ!Q=]W>\&/J)3Uʅ0{6_@,[k/]PF?G~%[Sp-f) _$Dɋ~益uwchi Ep uZa˭Dc{pl ThjqERAEp|Dnl(@KܓCTt=4FB>9 # U}:;6-͝;na"7o #sLL]K9̢xK,% YnbE5X ps1E&17k+fvT- *P'I^Fw)w ep'([G9u}K4 *狍%ˬԤ){AMMis]3w%`{.z1IzD.*"PΚ{W3-K~qk..h^-힎{ʩõyFT OUBqN3#OlPqooa`_ըMѫS_XH{K7-5ݖ׭QͽÏ\.^`2xdW/eqԽUM-ㆀHEZ:ST5_6]p7)EfxA̓0\9VfEW,;BD7֖<{IBh .b$HL}E`m^Ze64 }.Nv6i-Yξ:Ͽ['0il ԑxk'[!T^NX "HuE-JU HVKo1ܜI C1%s8hSt"'FG HKk *Ra 4Z&cioQ I}fK@KjL+8oD}TsPc[4!ځ f$Y3]0k.K^%-ĉ$DdH *ȯʀ 9 &NϞZ欇%nT'iNkQ:aū-D #fWl~H&2O>ٝ8Y5w Pf"}N.8aiGR&2+\"JQ+Ri"n9'nG ӄt)Y0z܊Ba?yP_&K?-V/JD+HCx7>[zcP`;nz&ԇOY|eZ6ְtD"t{H\,O_ $Du}?>?=KF_hW(} mL/ w^#J=.F-QhXsd:6Ue]r@ ]^def>,x+UF7I>*H t 6RkhiFm6{1/_e-3s)F!a%i0zWFMOVeQ5?mڜ=ixüHSr ~:e٘('"5aX] "z^+Mke7܀9"2AUe?7*̀&U6Xn3_thśYhn!K$iqD'Kn~;HY^4塬h$}#o^r$]!?U7"?At\f7)fF,Wvcw{Z#ɬ+ G-2%W;l9OA0%A/D=T@ HQ`js+ХO4+?Rytμ>yZL%Bf꛿ ;Jnzم:B:\Bi/U; K%ؗho: VXU /k]PÄv<#kq[A*g͂FC$^u@ҋ2:y.,v΍;)5陣HZYJ³o"w*F?V$;FnB MZoY8٠&S@\{; orB[k,(VKs㸉˻ F[|9}Ȧjk-{@aZ C7F~P/E><59B93txW1c7.P+ wb .nB9۹xļDkoL0[0ZmfBG i,؅)Lh}S1_sF7b+$ G(bGhXN<##:y + C&:TLta ݲt8WHTS8;ux&4a=gVᘄ.ըdU-߷wNmӵ(P-AUvl-[c|TAD~5u xh75H\t+dO'׻;AV;' jջ 9RMP#TžeuZA]HEmYQI!֜%9{Y <-ڻ ^yOB[n&HH _ңQY"xmRT%T-3X!!0"*,82.WVD2I ۉB#Z'ʦyXdE{Q,. p&7"%O&]Hoa: ^ ݓҶ'hsB$Mn7.R <25p+o`!ypBE@ԑ&dD!{Z:P0LWbsY/|$Ts 9edW(($f3XPG腧Xj3S^/HiT$-3Hq1 `%`@f~ڠHF؟VK fɽ-0]h(~썳YúĵwH/aG"Vr2m3 j\UQr >|/'u9yGcj5eAjD)/j)Ű y WNŨN TV\)mLʖC| !R[Sn#]7EZ?_&"=:{BkCj0^rϻ'׻@hEH'ȩ`eYevePoh҂8 86Ϯ iحaŅsc98V2i7CcP/ ؓ/ҥ+ȎK mPz?~%_Cr bm1&N;sVcq'yC!񧻈C_'URjXnUdI[U2Jf4T"MYNUi\ǭG#,kƚ Vq4釼b) k{AoB!ɆלŚNKPf>Jpu jUB[= 4ѡ'uˑ+occ8#QP^S|ڕ%žAovq s'vR.|eUnXoe#ΑLJ]Z#Ts`HRNVϘ2:+chVFAǠ$E^Vx)Ho^|ZQ:3q97{{=\rIE|8I `P,^)pc*1f'3JUZ;6*R359͔wf#-9ʞqL82`BUuh{AB$0_GZ)eUqYhBKU4Œ{8JQ`'!JéR}9Z-;sKjձJ}quM.J>_e’|v":#c)ug%_]jyqo81 KR"xWmH]Dևo䜚H@/ONh!ΏPW*sf"E]w}pX-,HzIШWi ص>i54d]CЋv|"_Nr*߈깬D2zrakYoVsا*[UԠ/ܮlRQz[j}TMkxn EHiȪh;y/oua04g}%ǡʙk1s܋9!r sCq|a]PRu*tVP%~6?D+Y6Yq2acI\6n%JI6ԡ5;BuEw?) 5bYCTE5AtpZUj8"$5PʌӣgS^"]68uYIО  z{ɩ4}?[BWj6CmJ=9 XrB/{kOԽBiwVYpC  έB|G=z"fwLpq;3t1GC/$1Hv b8h\Z˭%+Y*4q5Dl߂ԻG:GN~|&ٹahB $9WJ\/5"ᤊ1kz^4عZ/360f ^'VBy.R[b3k.kӥ5Y?:h)Xft./aJٷ (  ^RGt; J`Br =E 9ܢPٯPBCij৵QBEEzpmA51P?8k8 Œ+qX2$>[ l{uҦ*8,E5Bƃbn޾Vo_@Sю*cg#J%-Y^/9BuiFي U|DW^Xφto<'ϯsuWαYiI9]u)3֚-j-g"ķ2T#Xt~AaRw >蒣K/Dq6?PK_8A |/T50}Q'e)ѯRzD]'iV3%'5Kn Y_G/uq}ݱ9Ɣ)թciu>r\| T/sna .$4̷;zBDZdC2a5~[kw"o>3 kF:Iv!>I2$s1uc>ZU,<ӄH/ig13d!z<'+fϔ EX 39Q_Szpr.(/M,62wZ0EA?XLzMvQϨ/i}ByxfyHŶgy,H N d2-?s9Wr|s 8uMßMq7^ƅ\j)9 IT~~^U&k #V` \Տ0KhmО;{lZ}'ˏ

    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1