ESV Study Bible

In an email this morning the ESV Study Bible has added a new sample to their site. Formerly the introduction to Luke was available this one contains the introduction to Revelation.
It contains 12 major sections

1. Author and Title
2. Date
3. Genre:
   This information is taken from the ESV Literary Study Bible and I'm very glad to see this included.
4. Theme
5. Purpose, Occasion and Background
6. History of Salvation Summary
7. Timeline (of the writing not an interpretive timeline)
8. Key Themes
9. Literary Features (again from the ESVLSB)
10. Schools of interpretation
1. Historicism
2. Futurism (both Historical Premillennialism and Dispensational Premillennialism)
3. Preterism / Partial Preterism
4. Idealism
5. Mixed View
11. Millennial Views
1. Premillennialism (Classical & Pretribulational)
2. Postmillennialism
3. Amillennialism
12. Structure and Outline

Overall the introduction is balanced and attempts to represent the divergent interpretive schools without tipping your hand in either direction. The ESVSB goes on to note,

Well I did it. I took the luxury Bible plunge - well kind of. I just preordered the top of the line black goatskin ESV Study Bible.

Don't read luxury as "needless bible bling" you find a lot of junk in "Christian Bookstores" but just because you slap a cross on something kitschy doesn't make it a Christian product. In this instance Luxury is a synonym for quality.

As I mentioned yesterday I've been reading the Bible Design Blog and I hit an article on the an article on the new ESV Study Bible. Reading Mark's blog is going to cost me money in the long run. I'm not panicking just yet. I got a good deal due to the Moody Bible Institute Pastor's conference and cut the cover price in more than 1/2. I decided I can live with that.

I've been reading about the ESVSB for over a month and I got to see some mock-up's at the MBI Pastor's conference. Plus thanks to Mr. Bertrand I've been aching to get my hands on a good goatskin bible.

I've been reading the ESV on my Treo 650 for my evening devotions for months now. With all of that said I started comparing what this bible has in line with my list and it looks like the ESV Study Bible is one worth owning. The one downside is that it's large - weighing in at 2,752 pages and a trim size of 6 ½ × 9 ¼ inches.

As far as quality components go, the paper is reputed to be the finest in the world, high-opacity. Smyth Sewn binding - in every format. The text it self is 9-point set in a single paragraphed column (Words of Christ in black!) with 7.25-point notes set in two columns.