Book È Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World È Anonymous
S 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 faithFeatures IncludeOld Testament newly translated from the Gr In the past few years I've been trying to read through a different translation of the Bible each year The Orthodox Study Bible is interesting in that it includes the Apocrypha some neat stuff in there and the OT translation is taken from the Septuagint Greek translation of the Hebrew OT The NT is rather disappointingly the NKJV I found myself scratching my head a few times wondering at NKJV's translation of the Greek The study notes were full of interesting insights from the church fathers and the Orthodox tradition The Orthodox are very concerned to apply all of the Bible in context of worship There were also many helpful comments on the possible typologies in the texts I noticed some notes which seemed to target typical Orthodox errors such as focusing too much on which ethinic tradition one belongs to Russian Greek Syrian etc the necessity of participating in the liturgy and not merely being a bystander I appreciated those notes Some study Bibles can turn into Rah rah for our own tradition and way of doing things While there was plenty of that the editors were not afraid to critiue their own tradition May we all follow their example
Anonymous È The Orthodox Study Bible: Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's World Mobi
The Orthodox Study Bible Ancient Christianity Speaks to Today's WorldThe FIRST EVER Orthodox Study Bible presents the Bible of the early church and the church of the early BibleOrthodox Christianity is the face of ancient Christianity to the modern world and embraces the second largest body of Christians in the world In thi Love the christological and trinitarian footnotes applied throughout the Old Testament Beautiful iconography The lectionary and MorningEvening prayers are also nice if you need them it's convenient for me to use this Orthodox calendar app I have for those