The ''MacArthur Study Bible'', first issued in 1997 by current

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edited by

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John F. MacArthur with introductions and annotations to the

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of the

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. It also includes charts, maps, study notes, Biblical harmonies, chronologies of

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kings and prophets, and appendices. MacArthur, pastor of

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and chancellor of

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, wrote more than half of the 20,000 entries himself in longhand, and reworked many of the others written by Seminary faculty. Initially only available in the New King James Version, the ''MacArthur Study Bible'' is now also published using the

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, and

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translations, as well as in Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese. In 1998, it won the

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for Study Bible of the Year, and as of 2007 had more than one million copies distributed. It has also been criticized for its views on dispensationalist premillennialism in

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, and limited atonement.

References

External links

MacArthur Study Bible in ESV
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