ESV Study Bible
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- $34.99
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- $34.99
Publisher Description
The ESV Study Bible was created to help people understand the Bible in a deeper way. Combining the best and most recent evangelical Christian scholarship with the highly regarded ESV text, it is the most comprehensive study Bible ever published.
The ESV Study Bible features more than 2,750 pages of extensive, accessible Bible resources, including completely new notes, full-color maps, illustrations, charts, timelines, and articles created by an outstanding team of 93 evangelical Christian scholars and teachers. In addition to the 757,000 words of the ESV Bible itself, the notes and resources of the ESV Study Bible comprise an additional 1.1 million words of insightful explanation and teaching-equivalent to a 20-volume Bible resource library all contained in one volume. (Please note this edition does not come with free access to the Online ESV Study Bible resources.) 9-point Lexicon type (single-column Bible text); 7-point Frutiger type (double-column study notes) Black letter text Concordance Extensive articles 240 full-color maps and illustrations
Customer Reviews
Barely adequate navigation - for a Bible
As an e-pub, as a digital rendering of the Bible, this is barely adequate. The ability to navigate to a specific passage is non-existent. To get to Hebrews ch 4 (much less Heb 4:14), you access the Table of Contents function, then scroll through all of the study features (numerous downward swipes/screens) to finally find the list of the books of Scripture, then scroll through the 57 books of the bible to finally get to Hebrews. Tap Hebrew, then tap the chapter 4 entry on the "Hebrews Tables of Contents." There is no top-level function to quickly get to a specific section or passage in Scripture. This greatly limit's the functionality of this e-pub. This is not a Bible that you will use to look up or check Bible references while doing any other form of reading or studying.
This is structured for sustained sequential reading of either the study articles or the actual text of Scripture (which is a good thing). The free ESV app is better suited to accessing a specific place within the Bible.
ESV
Navigation has alway been an issue. Especially when trying it on a page not on the main menu. No way to get to a specific word in the concordance. Way to much money for an inferior product.
Disappointing
I recognize the challenge of working within the iBooks platform to provide access to footnotes, cross references, robust navigation, etc., but I don’t think this product succeeds at all, especially considering the price. Even basic options like displaying Jesus’s words in red simply don’t work as advertised. There appears to be no process in view for fixing bugs or improving the product over time. I feel a bit cheated by the publisher.