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I have to admit that I'm quite disappointed with the ORTHODOX STUDY BIBLE (OSB), especially since I'd read so much praise for its Patristic-based notes and commentary. As a previous reviewer points out, it's basically the New King James Version (NKJV) with the Anagignoskomena (i.e. the Orthodox Deuterocanon, or the Apocrypha). While Orthodox Christians generally consider the NKJV an acceptable text for the New Testament, its use for the Psalter is completely unacceptable. However, I was surprised to find that this Bible, supposedly produced for Orthodox Christian study and devotion, retains the Protestant version of the Psalms, even down to its numbering system. In addition to problems with the Psalms, there's the overwhelming non-Orthodox tone of the notes and commentary. Referring to the Mother of God simply as "Mary," or to the Second Person in the Holy Trinity simply as "Jesus" sounds as odd to most Orthodox as it does to this Roman Catholic. I don't know if it was the decision to use the NKJV text or because the publisher is Thomas Nelson, but to be frank, the ORTHODOX STUDY BIBLE reads more like an Evangelical work than anything else. As the Archimandrite Ephrem said in his own much more detailed review of the OSB: "It feels far too much like a piece of evangelical propaganda decked out in the trappings of Orthodoxy, like an eighteenth century New England chapel or meeting house with a golden onion dome stuck over the pediment of the porch."