Awesome NT notes!

This is a critical study bible with an abundance of translator and study notes. The entire current version can be found at http://bible.org and is available for download in several electronic formats. I own both the study and the reader's versions of the first edition, but the real value here is the study edition.

This edition contains...
+ Preface to the First Edition
+ Introduction to the First Edition
+ the 66 books of the Protestant churches' canon with the aforementioned notes
+ NET Bible Principles of Translation
+ Lists of Abbreviations (necessary for understanding the sources of many of the notes)
+ List of Cited Works (a tremendous resource in itself)
+ Principal Manuscript Evidence for the Greek New Testament
+ Hebrew and Greek Transliteration
+ Detailed Table of Contents (actually, a useful outline of the scriptures)
+ Index to the NET Bible Maps
+ a section of black and white maps
+ a section of maps based on satellite photography

This edition has more than 2500 pages and cannot be expected to hold much more, but there are a number of features usually found in study bibles that are missing from this edition. There are no introductory articles (e.g., to the Old/New Testaments, to the individual books, to archeology, to geography, etc.). These type of articles, and more, can be found online at the bible.org website. Many of the charts of dates, names, etc. are missing from this edition as well. The collection of black and white maps are helpful but limited. The maps based on the satellite imagery were interesting, but less helpful.

Overall, I cannot think of a better study bible to assist you in your in-depth study of scriptures, but you will need to look elsewhere for articles to provide you with a good overview of the various books of the bible. I am rating this edition with 5 stars (out of five) because for what it is (a critical study edition of the English Bible) it is unsurpassed. ( )

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