ESV Study Bible

I just got handed a copy of the ESV Study Bible by a roaming Crossway marketing guru. Ah, the joys of being a reviewer. The Bible is set for release this Tuesday and you can now order it from Amazon, Westminster Books, or any other online retailer. Westminster is offering it at a ridiculous discount in each of the eight editions and is shipping it starting today.

Hardcover
TruTone Nat Brown
TruTone Classic Black
Black Bonded Leather
Burgundy Bonded Leather
Black Genuine Leather
Burgundy Bonded Leather
Premium Calfskin Leather

I hope to have a thorough review of it on Tuesday.

Comments (18)

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Anonymous's picture

Tim,When you do review, can you please also include a list of the authors of the commentary? I could not find that through the Westminster listing.

Thank you.

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Anonymous's picture

Tim

In regard to the calfskin edition, Crossway printers experienced some unforeseen complications that delayed them from shipping these. According to them, no retailers have received them yet but will become available soon.

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Anonymous's picture

Too bad Westminster books doesn’t ship to Canada.

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Anonymous's picture

Hi Heard shipping out the 100,000 Bibles in a couple of days must have been a logistical nighmare.

Monergism Books and Amazon ship to Canada

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Anonymous's picture

Rejoice Software has the best deal that I have found!http://rejoicesoftware.com/esv.htm

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Anonymous's picture

I wonder how this Bible compares to the ESV Reformation Study Bible. Anybody have thoughts?

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Anonymous's picture

Anthony -I found a listing of the authors of the commentary here: http://rejoicesoftware.com/study_bible_compare.htm

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Ok Tim, I know that you’re an efficient and quick reader but “a thorough review of it on Tuesday”. Thoroughly review a whole bible in less than a week? :-)

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I’m still waiting on my review copy and all these blogs are not helping contain the excitement! LOL.

Seriously this is going to be the “it” Bible (if you will) for this year without a doubt.

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Anonymous's picture

Ten minutes into our drive to True Women my husband called: Heather your ESV study bible just arrived at home!

We turned around the car and I spent the whole hour drive pouring over this wonderful new study bible. What a great blessing to have it for the conference!

Thurs. was also my birthday and that was the best gift possible!Heather

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The Bible sounds wonderful but being from Crossway, I wonder how good the physical quality is. I bought the Reformation edition a couple of years ago for my husband and we have not been at all pleased with the quality of the paper - it is very thin and tears easily - I’ve had to do several repairs already. It makes me a bit hesitant to try this new Bible.

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Anonymous's picture

I am starting 2 online bible studies based on the ESV Study Bible.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=29771613373http://esvstudybible.blogspot.com/

Both will contain much of the same content until I figure out which one is easier to use and update. The studies will work through one book at a time, one chapter at a time, and if necessary, one verse at a time. Comments are welcome and we will discuss the text along with the provided study notes.

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I wonder how this Bible compares to the ESV Reformation Study Bible. Anybody have thoughts?

Chuck - I’m still working this out. I’ll comment on it in my review.

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Tim:

In your review can you cover the specifics of its theology in the notes? Do they present one view predominantly, or are they balanced? I noticed it had a very balanced intro to Revelation, but I haven’t seen the actual notes to comment.

Other points of theology I would be curious about include:

Is it Cessationist or Charismatic, Covenantal or Dispensational, A-Millenial or Pre-Millenial (or Post), Credo or Paedo Baptistic etc?

Thanks Tim. I was confident you would address this issue in your review, but thought I should explicitly raise it just in case. :)

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Anonymous's picture

Tim: no-one is saying how thick this ESV Bible is.How thick is yours ? Thanx much

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Anonymous's picture

eek!! can’t wait to get mine - it most likely will get to me in the next 2 - 3 weeks, as I live in the Caribbean and didn’t choose express shipping. Would love to read your review :)

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Anthony,

Most of your questions can be answered here:

http://www.esvstudybible.org/#contributors

In Him,

Alan