I currently have the ESV study bible in my cart and was looking at a few others.
Any suggestions for me? Thank you!!
I need it for a bible study I'm doing with a group.
This will give you a list of all of the study bibles on Logos. http://www.logos.com/products/search?q=%22study+bibles%22 I have seven of them but only use one. That is the Andrews Study Bible. Hopefully someone else with more experience can give further insight.
Yes, I'm already on that page. Thanks though.
I currently have the ESV study bible in my cart and was looking at a few others. Any suggestions for me? Thank you!! I need it for a bible study I'm doing with a group.
I have MANY others but find the following very useful:
The Reformation Study Bible by R. C. Sproul
The MacArthur Study Bible
Awesome. I was looking at the MacAurthur one as well! Let me go check out the reformation one.
In addition to what's already been suggested, I find the NLT Study Bible to be helpful. Sometimes more helpful than the ESV Study Bible, but they both have their strengths. On passages where there is some debate (as in egalitarian vs. complementarian re women's role in the church), the NLTSB is more balanced than the ESVSB, which is decidedly complementarian.
http://www.logos.com/product/8646/new-living-translation-study-bible-notes
In Bible studies, lots of people had newer Study Bibles and I had a Matthew Henry. Most of the time everyone agreed with Henry's notes vs. the newer ones. [:)]
Not sure if Logo's has the Study Bible but his Commentary is available.
You might also consider a good one volumn commentary like the new international Bible commentary
Um... FSB?
I mainly use the Faithlife Study Bible, I love how it links to other resources in my library so I can go deeper.
FLSB (because of links), ESVSB, NLTSB
None of my favorite study Bibles are available in Logos- NIV, Jewish Study Bible, Jewish Annotated NT. I would not buy the ESV notes.
I queried my library to see if I even had a Study Bible. Not called that but about the same size ... the OT/NT Background Commentaries really do a nice job. Quick to read and hits the spot.
I have some, but like Lynden find the Andrews Study Bible very useful.
Many of the good study Bibles are sectarian, therefore what is best often depends upon your beliefs. While it's not my favorite (my favorites are not in Logos) the ESV is certainly a decent choice. FSB is coming along nicely. What do I use the most? the ecumenical The Access Study Bilbe, the Jewish Study Bible, the Catholic Study Bible and a bit of the Literary Study Bible and the Renovare Study Bible. Since none of them are in Logos, I suppose that's not much help.[H]
Wow, thanks everyone.
I do have the FSB, just wanted a few more.
I ended up with the ESV study notes, MacArthur, and commentaries. I love the Matthew Henry one too and have been using it.
My next purchase will be the NLT since that is my favorite translation.
Janice,
Don't overlook the text and study notes with the NET bible, which you may already have in your library. They provide a window into decisions made by the translators. The notes used to be sold as a separate resource, but I no longer see them listed separately from the NET translation.
Scott
Janice, if you need it for study with a group you probably want a print version unless it is an online study group. If you have and ipad or a tablet you could take it along but you might find a print version more helpful in a group setting. I would suggest obtaining both print and digital formats of whatever study bible you choose. I have a number of study bibles in both formats and find myself leading towards the ESV Study Bible.
None of my favorite study Bibles are available in Logos- NIV, .... I would not buy the ESV notes.
My most-loved paper study bible is the NIV and I like it much. The ESV betrays a reformed partisanship that sometimes gets too strong.
I recently bought the Concordia SB in a neat bundle with a small commentary that even got a honorable mention in Danker's "multipurpose bible study tools".
The trick is: Concordia used the first edition of NIV SB and left most of it intact - they made sure to scratch out everything looking like revivalist-pietist-evangelical (like mentionings of "trust in Christ" or "decision") and included some decidedly Lutheran prefaces and remarks - Lutheran in the "bondage of the will"-sense, not in the "confessio Augustana"-sense.
Interestingly enough, this required only very little rework of the notes (I think they changed one or two words in the discussion of faith in Rm 3:24) and they indicated these with a dagger symbol. Sometimes these "daggered" notes are identical to my revised paper NIV SB, sometimes a bit expanded and sometimes only slightly changed. So far I don't see this as a major overhaul, just putting the soteriological nuance a bit further right in the responsibility/sovereignty continuum.
So while I read Concordia SB with caution - as one should read all SBs, commentaries and even lexicons as we learnt this weekend! - it gives 98% of NIV SB and therefore is too good to let it pass.
Thanks NB.Mick! Does the Concordia SB also contain all the maps of the NIV SB?
Does the Concordia SB also contain all the maps of the NIV SB?
Unfortunately not. I don't know about the original 1985 version, which was the basis of Concordia, but my 2002 revised edition NIV SB contains some fifty maps - none of these are in Concordia. From the say 40 charts I see 15 (so, the colored timelines are missing as well).
It seems that maps, pictures, graphical charts are a general problem for resources from the early days of Logos. This is one thing they did right with the ESV SB.
Yes, I did see I have that. The actual bible as well as the first edition notes. Will check it out today!
It is an online study as well as in person. I have it on my tablet as well. Thanks for the suggestion!
I lots of study Bible, but my favorites are the Apologetics Study Bible, FSB, ESVSB, and MacArthur's.
I always found the NIV Study Bible to be helpful. I seldom use study Bibles any more, prefering more indepth study and commentaries. But for many years the NIV Study Bible was of great value to me. For some reason the NIV Study Bible is not available in Logos.
I was given a paper copy of the NLT Study Bible. It is very good. For a long time I turned up my nose at the NLT, assuming it was just an update of the old Living Bible. Actually, it is a good translation from the Greek and Hebrew by some of the best scholars - some of the same scholars who worked on the NIV, the ESV, etc. It is a fresh good translation, and the notes are very good.
Michael: please see the discussion regarding Concordia Self-Study Bible above, which is the NIV SB, edited with a more Lutheran bent. I just posted a review on the product page.
All: Recently I started making it a habit to look up the daggered notes in the CSSB and compare them to my NIV SB - if people are interested we could try setting up a group and using Community Notes to discuss CSSB and show up the differences.
Mick
All: Recently I started making it a habit to look up the daggered notes in the CSSB and compare them to my NIV SB - if people are interested we could try setting up a group and using Community Notes to discuss CSSB and show up the differences. Mick
Peace to you, Mick! *smile* ... and .... Always Joy in the Lord!
If you proceed with that great idea, please invite some of us to that particular group. I also, since somewhere around 1985 or 1986 have enjoyed the Concordia Self-Study Bible (!!!!) (hard copy at first!) and appreciated the "daggered" notes. Would perhaps love to compare a few notes!
BTW, Dr. Horace Hummel was my professor for several Hebrew classes!
All: Recently I started making it a habit to look up the daggered notes in the CSSB and compare them to my NIV SB - if people are interested we could try setting up a group and using Community Notes to discuss CSSB and show up the differences. Peace to you, Mick! *smile* ... and .... Always Joy in the Lord! If you proceed with that great idea, please invite some of us to that particular group.
If you proceed with that great idea, please invite some of us to that particular group.
Milford,
I just created this group and invited you, but anybody may join us here - I will start putting up some of my notes in the Community Notes.
