The Lutheran Study Bible
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For Immediate Release
CONCORDIA PUBLISHING HOUSE
ANNOUNCES NEW LUTHERAN STUDY BIBLE
Saint Louis, MO – Concordia Publishing House will release The Lutheran Study Bible in October 2009. The Lutheran Study Bible is the first study Bible in English to be developed from the ground-up with notes that are “exclusively and distinctively Lutheran.”
The Lutheran Study Bible includes more than 26,500 study notes, including over 2,000 application notes and prayers for every part of the Bible; over 80,000 center column cross-references and 900 cross-references to 120 full or half-page maps, charts, and diagrams; and more than 220 articles and introductions to biblical books and topics. The Lutheran Study Bible notes were prepared by Lutheran theologians, scholars, and pastors from 12 Lutheran church bodies. “We are excited to offer all English-speaking Christians a study Bible that offers such a comforting and powerful Christ-centered understanding of the Scriptures,” shares Rev. Paul T. McCain, Publisher and Executive Director of Editorial for CPH. “As the Lutheran Reformers put it, Christ and His Gospel is the unspeakable treasure that alone opens the door to the entire Bible.”
The Lutheran Study Bible uses the English Standard Version® translation, one of the fastest growing translations worldwide and considered to be one of the most precise English translations available. “TLSB is a truly unique offering in the study Bible ‘market’,” says Gretchen Jameson, CPH’s Corporate Communications manager, “it combines a personal, devotional, and practical application approach to Bible reading, alongside solid scholarly study notes. There is, quite simply, nothing else like it available today.”
Detailed information about the unique features of The Lutheran Study Bible will be online at cph.org/lutheranbible in October 2008.
The Lutheran Study Bible is available for Internet pre sale in March 2009.
For more information about this news release, please email publicity@cph.org
It's about time. I don't care for the NIV Study Bible. This should be a great addition to the recently released readers guide to the Book of Concord. Great job CPH! Keep up with the solid confessional materials!
Posted by: Rev. Todd Schroeder | May 23, 2008 at 11:58 AM
Sounds very cool! I'm looking forward to seeing it. One question though...
Will the publication of the Lutheran Study Bible mean the end of publication of the Concordia Self-Study Bible?
Posted by: Pr. Jeremiah Gumm | May 23, 2008 at 12:57 PM
This is very interesting. Is CPH able to release the names of the 12 Lutheran bodies that were involved in the process?
Posted by: Weslie Odom | May 23, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Not for 17 months! Why do you tease us this way?! *cries*
Seriously, though, this is great news. I'm looking forward to it. =)
Posted by: Anonymous Lutheran | May 23, 2008 at 01:14 PM
You mentioned on a previous post that this book would include all the scriptural references of the 1534 Luther Bible... Will it include (I hope!!!) the Apocrypha?
This Catholic is looking forward to it either way.
Posted by: Ben George | May 23, 2008 at 03:39 PM
I understand why ESV, since LSB uses it, but wouldn't it be awesome if it were an English translation of Luther's Bible? Then again, Luther might not like that. . . .
Posted by: Brian Westgate | May 23, 2008 at 07:40 PM
Brian said, ..."but wouldn't it be awesome if it were an English translation of Luther's Bible?"
Rev. McCain, thanks for allowing us to comment on your site and also for allowing us to "volunteer" you for additional work!
Posted by: Bob Myers | May 23, 2008 at 08:24 PM
Pastor McCain,
Is there any way that the new Lutheran Bible could contain the Daily Lectionary (from LSB) and the Psalm reading schedule (also from LSB)? I am weary of always having to open two books (hymnal, bible) to do my daily devotions. Thanks.
Clint
Posted by: Clint Hoff | May 24, 2008 at 07:37 AM
Hope this study Bible will get closer to what I've been praying for for years; that we would have a study Bible which at the very least cross references to the small Catechism, and better major articles of the confessions.
Speaking of prayer, we ought do so for those preparing such important works for the church. Pray that God the Holy Spirit would counsel them to clarity, accuracy and truth.
Posted by: Rev. Allen Bergstrazer | May 24, 2008 at 09:15 AM
This will certainly be a great recourse. I wonder if it will have the Apocrypha or a version with it. The Book of Revelation is impossible to understand without cross referencing the sub-canonical Apocrypha. Anyway it sounds like the next big works from CPH will be a Genesis to Revelation multi volume scholarly commentary for the lay theologian on the ESV. Then a new Dogmatic Theology with today’s issues addressed and translations to all the Hebrew, Greek, Latin and German terms that the author assumes the reader knows. Thanks for your efforts on this exciting publication.
Posted by: Craig | May 25, 2008 at 12:38 AM
This is such exciting news! Thank you! Will there be an electronic version available as well?
Posted by: Christina Janice | May 25, 2008 at 08:12 PM
I was wondering about some of the physical properties of this version:
1) Will there be a nice leather bound, hand stitched edition with large margins (over 1" of space) for those of us who would like to input more notes as we come across them?
Leather: Yes.
Wide margin: No. [size would be unmanageable]
2) Will there be an electronic version with this, including the Lutheran notes?
Probably.
Thanks, and keep up the faithful work.
Posted by: Rev. Joel Kuhl | June 03, 2008 at 02:31 PM