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Originally Posted by Fluribus
For all the bone doctors out there, Amazon.com has the Orthopedic Study Bible...er... Orthodox Study Bible for $2.99.
The OT is the NKJV reworked to accord with the Septuagint and includes additional books. The NT is the NKJV. Notes and articles in accordance with the Eastern Orthodox. |
The
Orthodox Study Bible is one of my favorite Bible translations, so I'm going to shill for it again. At $2.99, I'm pretty sure this is as cheap as it's ever been and I'd bet that the sale is through the end of the month, which is this Thursday.
As mentioned by
Fluribus, the OSB is the Septuagint translated in the style of the NKJV. The wording is close enough that it allows meaningful comparison in English between the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. While the NKJV isn't my favorite translation, it works well here because the NKJV is less likely than other translations to replace Hebrew readings with those from the Septuagint, allowing more opportunity for comparison. In contrast, the
NETS translation of the Septuagint is based on the NRSV, which itself includes readings from the Septuagint. The NETS, by the way, can be downloaded for free as individual books of the Old Testament
in PDF format.
The OSB also includes translations of most of the Apocrypha included in Catholic Bibles, with the exceptions of 4 Maccabees and 2 Esdras (2 Ezra in the OSB is what's just called "Ezra" in Catholic and Protestant Bibles).
For anyone that finds the Septuagint interesting, particularly in the context of its influence on the New Testament, I recommend the (unfortunately not on sale) book
When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible by Timothy Michael Law.
The Orthodox Study Bible at
Christianbook,
eBooks.com,
Kobo,
Google,
B&N and
Amazon.
If someone needs a cheap NKJV ebook to go along with it, the NKJV edition of
The Foundation Study Bible is
also on sale for $2.99.