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In 2008, Crossway published the ESV Study Bible, which would go on to sell more than one million copies. [33] In 2009, the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA) named the ESV Study Bible as Christian Book of the Year. This was the first time in the award's 30-year history to be given to a study Bible. [34]
The ESV Study Bible (abbreviated as the ESVSB [1] [2]) is a study Bible published by Crossway. Using the text of the English Standard Version , the ESVSB features study notes from a perspective of "classic evangelical orthodoxy, in the historic stream of the Reformation ."
A dictionary with thumb indexes (on the right). A thumb index, also called a cut-in index [1] or an index notch, [2] is a round cut-out in the pages of dictionaries, encyclopedias, Bibles and other large religious books, and various sectioned, often alphabetic, reference works, used to locate entries starting at a particular letter or section.
Starting in 1989, R. C. Sproul assembled a team of contributors to work on a study Bible edition that would follow a distinctively Reformed perspective. [2] In 1995, Thomas Nelson (now HarperCollins) published the New Geneva Study Bible (featuring the Bible text of the New King James Version); the name of the edition was changed to Reformation Study Bible in 1998.
The roots of the HCSB can be traced to 1984, when Arthur Farstad, general editor of the New King James Version of the Bible, began a new translation project.In 1998, Farstad and LifeWay Christian Resources (the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention) came to an agreement that would allow LifeWay to fund and publish the completed work. [2]
The bible had 256 pages that abridged both the old and new testaments. [1] The term 'Thumb Bible' was first coined by Longman and Co. of London in the mid-nineteenth century, when they used it on the title page of an edition in 1849. Thumb Bibles continued to be printed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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