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Manufacturer: Crossway Bibles
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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION
Binding: Leather Bound
Dewey Decimal Number: 220
EAN: 9781433502453
ISBN: 1433502453
Label: Crossway Bibles
Manufacturer: Crossway Bibles
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 2752
Publication Date: 2008-10-15
Publisher: Crossway Bibles
Studio: Crossway Bibles
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Editorial Reviews:
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The ESV Study Bible was created to help people understand the Bible in a deeper way--to understand the timeless truth of God's Word as a powerful, compelling, life-changing reality. To accomplish this, the ESV Study Bible combines the best and most recent evangelical Christian scholarship with the highly regarded ESV Bible text. The result is the most comprehensive study Bible ever published--with 2,752 pages of extensive, accessible Bible resources.
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Customer Rating: 
Summary: deceptive marketing
Comment: I just received this book yesterday, the marketing is deceptive. They make it out to be a new translation but it is actually a revision of the Revised Standard Version (which it's self is a revision of the American Standard Version, the Revision Version, and the King James Version). I wanted something that was a true, fresh translation that wasn't tainted by others. This isn't it. They should be more TRUTHFUL about it and state rightly that it's a revision of a revision of a revision.
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Summary: OVER-HYPE
Comment: It just plain ok.....
You don't need to rush out and by it like I did.
With all the hype from Mark Driscoll and John Piper,
with big name editors like Packer and Grudem, I was expecting
something stunning....
Not just fancy paper and typefaces and illustrations, I was
expecting a theological hurricane and all I just was a light drizzle.
The notes are vague and vanilla. It is bigger than it needs to be.
I would get the Reformation study bible (ESV) or Spirit of the Reformation (NIV) to get some clear direction in the text from a historical point of view.
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Summary: Best Study Bible, not the best book
Comment: The ESV Study Bible is probably the best study Bible that I've ever owned or used. The ongoing outlines, topical notes, and tables listing other relevant items on a particular topic are very helpful. For want of an easy way to describe it, the scholarship is conservative, orthodox, reformed, and evangelical. Great resource.
That being said, the physical form this book takes leaves a little to be desired. The book is the largest personal Bible I've ever seen. Thick and heavy, but I guess that's because of all the info. But the way it's bound, with narrow margins, and a binding that causes the pages to crinkle in the seam, makes it feel crowded and oversized. Larger margins and a good binding would have been nice.
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Summary: Best Study Bible yet!
Comment: I have recently purchased this ESV study Bible and found it a very helpful and exciting guide in helping me dig deeper into Gods word. I love the readability of this version and how it is pointed out in notes on every page of different word or phrase interpretations that may be reasonable. I've found the study notes to be helpful and enlightening while doing my personal Bible Study time also. The easy references to scripture other supporting scriptures is also very handy. A very well done work~!
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Summary: A Helluva Bible
Comment: First look: As good as I imagined
Here are my first thoughts after opening my splendid, inspired little treasure:
PRINT VERSION
The pages are of the finest quality, super thin paper. Or as the Hebrews would say, thin-thin. Called Primalux and made in France, it is like gossamer, like a zephyr, so handle gently, slowly, and lovingly. My advice is simply to set your printed copy aside for occasional use, because the online version is what this book is all about. I'm not kidding.
The text is very readable, even with significantly more white space between lines than I would have expected. My suspicion is that the length of the book (2,752 pages) is due to a generous amount of white space. The is extremely smart of Crossway. If you can't read a book, you can't use it. It's that simple. You will use this book.
The spine is smyth-sewn (pronounced like blithe), and the book opens beautifully.
It's big, but it's not a Strong's Concordance. Don't worry; I doubt you'll be trucking it around, unless you are a preacher, teacher, or show-off (yeah, you, show-off! :-)).
ONLINE VERSION
The online activiation code is in the brochure in the back of your book. It's a bit hard to scratch off, but be careful you don't scratch too hard -- you might scratch the page and remove the text altogether.
As I said previously, the cross-referencing is amazing.
The notes are very apt and easy to access while reading.
The articles are so well written. They are not like the dusty study Bible essays of old; they are written for a modern reader with a modern lifestyle (fast-paced and no time to waste). The sheer amount of the extra-Biblical material is absolutely staggering. And I fully expect new online features to be added for all of us to enjoy as the years progress (can you imagine a book this large where you can fix typos and translation errors without going to press?).
At first glance, it appears -- thankfully -- that the publishers are very careful about not making emphatic statements when the scholarship on a subject is varied or not in agreement.
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