Orthodox Study Bible
Full nameOrthodox Study Bible
AbbreviationOSB
Complete Bible
published		2008
Textual basisNT: New King James Version OT: St. Athanasius Academy Septuagint
Translation typeFormal Equivalence
Version revisionNew King James Version
PublisherThomas Nelson, Inc.
CopyrightCopyright 2008 Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Religious affiliationEastern Orthodoxy
Genesis 1:1–3
In the beginning God made heaven and earth. The earth was invisible and unfinished; and darkness was over the deep. The Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the water. Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

The Orthodox Study Bible (OSB) is an Eastern Orthodox study Bible published by Thomas Nelson in 2008. It features an English translation of the St. Athanasius Academy Septuagint edition for the Old Testament, and utilizes the New King James Version for the New Testament. This publication is not an official text of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Translation

The OSB's Old Testament is a translation of the Greek Septuagint developed by St. Athanasius Academy of Orthodox Theology.[lower-alpha 1][1] One feature therefore is that New Testament quotations of the Old Testament are identical in wording between the Old and New Testaments (e.g. Genesis 1:27; Matthew 19:5; Mark 10:7-8; 1 Cor 6:16; Eph 5:31).[2] The New Testament is the New King James Version (NKJV), which uses the Textus Receptus.[3]

The overview committee included fourteen archbishops, metropolitans, and bishops from various Orthodox jurisdictions, as well as eight priests and seven lay scholars.[4]

The original edition of the OSB, released in 1993, included only the New Testament and Psalms, both NKJV. The NKJV text of the Psalms were replaced in the 2008 edition by the Psalms of the new OSB translation of the Old Testament.[1]

Study materials

The translations of the Old Testament and New Testament are accompanied by commentary from the Orthodox viewpoint.[3] Articles provide guidance and support for many facets of the Orthodox faith which can be confusing or unknown to those who did not grow up in the Church. There is a comparative of list of contents, side-by-side with the Roman Catholic canon and the generally accepted Protestant canon.[5] The OSB addresses such questions as: Why is the Mother of God essential to the Faith?[6] Who were the Seventy Disciples?[7] How is an Orthodox understanding of the Bible different from a Roman Catholic or Protestant understanding?[8] In addition, the OSB provides basic daily prayers,[9] a lectionary for personal use,[10] and reproductions of icons in its pages.[11]

Response

The work has received positive endorsements from such prominent bishops as Metropolitan Maximos of Pittsburgh (Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America), Metropolitan Phillip (Antiochian Orthodox Church) and Metropolitan Theodosius (Orthodox Church in America).[12]

The 1993 edition was criticized by Archimandrite Ephrem, who wrote in the Orthodox Christian journal Sourozh that the commentary "feels far too much like a piece of evangelical propaganda decked out in the trappings of Orthodoxy",[13] and Priest Seraphim Johnson who wrote in The Orthodox Christian Witness that the edition "reproduces the whole textual apparatus of the NKJV, including many of the doubtful decisions of modern non-Orthodox biblical scholarship."[14]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The translation is based upon the Alfred Rahlfs edition of the Septuagint using the Brenton edition and New King James Version Old Testament, which was translated from the Hebrew Masoretic Text, as additional source material.

References

Citations

  1. 1 2 St. Athanasius Academy 2008, p. XI.
  2. ↑ St. Athanasius Academy 2008, pp. 5, 1305, 1345, 1558, 1608.
  3. 1 2 St. Athanasius Academy 2008, p. XII.
  4. ↑ St. Athanasius Academy 2008, p. V.
  5. ↑ St. Athanasius Academy 2008, p. XIII.
  6. ↑ St. Athanasius Academy 2008, p. 1321.
  7. ↑ St. Athanasius Academy 2008, pp. 1386, 1822.
  8. ↑ St. Athanasius Academy 2008, pp. 1753–1766.
  9. ↑ St. Athanasius Academy 2008, pp. 1791–1795.
  10. ↑ St. Athanasius Academy 2008, pp. 1767–1774.
  11. ↑ St. Athanasius Academy 2008, pl. 1–12.
  12. ↑ Endorsements of the OSB by Orthodox hierarchs
  13. ↑ Archimandrite Ephrem. "Book Review: The Orthodox Study Bible". Orthodox Christian Information Center.
  14. ↑ Priest Seraphim Johnson. "Review in The Orthodox Christian Witness, Vol. XXVII, No. 18(1273)". Orthodox Christian Information Center.

Bibliography

St. Athanasius Academy (2008). Orthodox Study Bible. Thomas Nelson. ISBN 978-0-7180-0359-3.

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