''The Orthodox Study Bible'' (OSB) is an
Eastern Orthodox
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Like the Pentarchy of the first millennium, the mainstream (or " canonical ...
study Bible
A study Bible is an edition of the Bible prepared for use by a serious student of the Bible. It provides scholarly information designed to help the reader gain a better understanding of and context for the text.
History
Perhaps the first editi ...
published by
Thomas Nelson in 2008. It features an English translation of the St. Athanasius Academy
Septuagint
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edition for the Old Testament, and utilizes the
New King James Version
The New King James Version (NKJV) is an English translation of the Bible. The complete NKJV Bible was published in 1982 by Thomas Nelson, now HarperCollins. The NKJV is described by Thomas Nelson as being "scrupulously faithful to the origin ...
for the New Testament. This publication is not an official text of the
Eastern Orthodox Church
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.
Characteristics
Response
The work has received positive endorsements from such prominent bishops as
Metropolitan
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* Metropolitan area, a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories
* Metropolitan borough, a form of local government district in England
* Metropolitan county, a typ ...
Maximos of Pittsburgh (
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
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Archbishop
On May 11, 2019, the church's H ...
),
Metropolitan Phillip (Antiochian Orthodox Church) and
Metropolitan Theodosius (
Orthodox Church in America
The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian church based in North America. The OCA is partly recognized as autocephalous and consists of more than 700 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries and institutions ...
).
Among the work's critics,
Archimandrite
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Ephrem, writing in the Orthodox Christian journal ''Sourozh'', has stated that the commentary "feels far too much like a piece of evangelical propaganda decked out in the trappings of Orthodoxy." Priest Seraphim Johnson has written in ''The Orthodox Christian Witness'' that "the Study Bible reproduces the whole textual apparatus of the NKJV, including many of the doubtful decisions of modern non-Orthodox biblical scholarship."
See also
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References
External links
Orthodox Study Bible app (iPhone, iPod touch)Podcast interview with Father Peter Gilquist on the OSB
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2008 non-fiction books
2008 in Christianity
Bible translations into English
Eastern Orthodoxy
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