The EOB (Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bible) is an Orthodox edition of the Holy Scriptures based on the Septuagint (with variants to the Masoretic text) and on the Patriarchal Text for the New Testament. This is the New Testament volume.
Overall this translation is needed, as in the endless sea of English Bibles there are precious few that give an Orthodox perspective. My biggest gripe is that often extra words are imposed by the translator to clarify meaning and placed in parentheses, but this is so frequent that is really distracts from the flow of the reading. Also, Cleenewerck's scholarship seldom delves beneath surface-level analysis and aping more qualified researchers; he seems to contribute little himself. But utilizing the great minds that he has, we have here a workable version of the New Testament which is far truer to Orthodox theological concepts than Protestant and Roman Catholic renderings. I'm more interested to see the Old Testament based on the Septuagint when that is completed, but for now this serves as a nice compliment to other New Testament resources in illuminating the proto-Orthodox undertones of the text. I say buy a copy at least to encourage the production of the Septuagint-based Old... More > Testament in English. If this one falls flat, me might not feel motivated to finish the job.< Less
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