{"product_id":"classic-orthodox-bible-9798348389031","title":"Classic Orthodox Bible","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): C. J. S. Hayward\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: C.J.S. Hayward Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: C.J.S. Hayward Publications\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Other English Translations - Devotional\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the Classic Orthodox Bible, positive reviews have praised the translation and negative reviews have complained that the three inch thick glue spine makes the volume excessively brittle. One ought preferably to acknowledge both points of feedback; the recommendation is not to buy this volume specifically but buy it as a hardcover series or as ePubs, available from https: \/\/classicorthodoxbible.com\/series\/.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn \u003cem\u003eOrthodox\u003c\/em\u003e Bible that sounds like a \u003cem\u003ereal Bible!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome people \u003cem\u003ewant\u003c\/em\u003e a Bible to have majestic Thee's and Thou's and sound like a Bible - with the same English that ordinary people prefer in the Orthodox Divine Liturgy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Classic Orthodox Bible is a complete Bible that not only sounds majestic, but is based on the Orthodox Church's official versions of the Old and New Testament.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders who appreciate the beauty, grandeur, and meticulous accuracy of the King James Version will find it a thrill and a delight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf you only buy ONE version of the Bible to help you understand Holy Orthodoxy, \u003c\/em\u003e without a doubt, buy the Orthodox Study Bible...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBut if you buy two, as there is good reason to do, \u003c\/strong\u003e you might consider the \u003cstrong\u003eClassic Orthodox Bible\u003c\/strong\u003e to go with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDivinization\u003cp\u003eThe entire purpose of being Christian is to become by grace what Christ is by nature. This is called \u003cem\u003edivinization\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome of the fingerprints of divinization in the Bible have not survived English translation well: such as translating the Greek Χριστος with one word when it refers to the Lord, and a different, unrelated term when it refers to all the faithful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose passages, and several like them are translated a little more clearly in the Classic Orthodox Bible.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Protestant like C.S. Lewis can write, \"The Son of God became a man that men might become the Sons of God,\" and this text capitalizes \"Son\" and \"Sons\" when it refers to people who are called to become by grace what Christ is by nature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContinuity in rendering between Old and New Testament\u003cp\u003eIt's not just that the same word is used in \"Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God,\" (Matt 16:16), and \"...saying, 'Touch not My Christs, and do My prophets no harm, '\" (Psalm 104:16).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe name \"Joshua\" is not translated \"Joshua\" in the Old Testament and \"Jesus\" in the new; it is translated as \"Jesus\" in both Testaments, possibly adding a bit more intelligibly by the Greek Fathers' unending wordplay about the Jesus in the book after Deuteronomy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFurthermore, Pascha is \"Pascha\" in Old and New Testament alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Orthodox Church's Greek Old Testament\u003cp\u003eThe Orthodox Church's official Bible is the Septuagint or LXX, made by seventy of the best Jewish scholars centuries before Christ. It is the source of many, but not all, Greek quotations of the Old Testament in the New Testament. Orthodox believe that the Holy Spirit was active in some of that process of translation, and the text of the Septuagint has a special place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis translation is based on Sir Lancelot Brenton's King James Version-style translation of the Greek Old Testament.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps more importantly, the New Testament is based on the Byzantine New Testament. No other translations can boast both of these.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"C.J.S. Hayward Publications","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45139488735383,"sku":"9798348389031","price":7106.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798348389031.webp?v=1767654296","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/classic-orthodox-bible-9798348389031","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}