ESV Study Bible : English Standard Version

✍ Scribed by Bibles, Crossway

• Publisher: Good News Publishers/Crossway Books;Crossway Bibles
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 2702
• Edition: Personal size edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The ESV Study Bible, Personal Size compresses nearly all the features of the award-winning ESV Study Bible into a smaller size for easier carrying. This Personal Size edition retains all of the original's 20,000 study notes, 240 full-color maps and illustrations, charts, timelines, and introductions - more than 2 million words of Bible text, insightful explanation, teaching, and reference material.

Abstract: The ESV Study Bible, Personal Size compresses nearly all the features of the award-winning ESV Study Bible into a smaller size for easier carrying. This Personal Size edition retains all of the original's 20,000 study notes, 240 full-color maps and illustrations, charts, timelines, and introductions - more than 2 million words of Bible text, insightful explanation, teaching, and reference material

✦ Table of Contents

Content: I. The Old Testament --
The theology of the Old Testament --
Old Testament timeline: An overview --
The date of the Exodus --
The Hebrew calendar compared to the Gregorian calendar --
Introduction to the Pentateuch --
Genesis --
Exodus --
Leviticus --
Numbers --
Deuteronomy --
Introduction to the historical books --
Joshua --
Judges --
Ruth --
1 Samuel --
2 Samuel --
1 Kings --
2 Kings --
1 Chronicles --
2 Chronicles --
Ezra --
Nehemiah --
Esther --
Introduction to the poetic and wisdom literature --
Job --
Psalms --
Proverbs --
Ecclesiastes --
Song of Solomon --
Introduction to the prophetic books --
Isaiah --
Jeremiah --
Lamentations --
Ezekiel --
Daniel --
Hosea --
Joel --
Amos --
Obadiah --
Jonah --
Micah --
Nahum --
Habakkuk --
Zephaniah --
Haggai --
Zechariah --
Malachi --
II. Background to the New Testament --
The time between the testaments --
Jewish and Roman rulers --
Intertestamental events timeline --
The Herodian dynasty --
The Roman empire and the Greco-Roman world --
Jewish groups at the time of the New Testament --
III. The New Testament --
The theology of the New Testament --
New Testament timeline --
The date of Jesus' crucifixion --
Reading the Gospel and Acts --
Matthew --
Mark --
Luke --
John --
Acts --
Reading the Epistles --
Romans --
1 Corinthians --
2 Corinthians --
Galatians --
Ephesians --
Philippians --
Colossians --
1 Thessalonians --
2 Thessalonians --
1 Timothy --
2 Timothy --
Titus --
Philemon --
Hebrews --
James --
1 Peter --
2 Peter --
1 John --
2 John --
3 John --
Jude --
Revelation --
IV. Articles and resources --
God's plan of salvation --
Biblical doctrine: An overview --
True theology: Knowing and loving God --
The Bible and revelation --
What it means to know God --
The character of God --
The Trinity --
The person of Christ --
The Holy Spirit --
The works of Christ --
Mankind --
God's relationship with creation --
Sin --
Salvation --
The church --
Last things --
Biblical ethics: An overview --
Biblical ethics: An introduction --
The beginning of life and abortion --
Bioethics --
The end of life --
Marriage and sexual morality --
Divorce and remarriage --
Homosexuality --
Civil government --
Capital punishment --
War --
Lying and telling the truth --
Racial discrimination --
Stewardship --
Interpreting the Bible --
Interpreting the Bible: An introduction --
Interpreting the Bible: A historical overview --
Reading the Bible --
Reading the Bible theologically --
Reading the Bible as literature --
Reading the Bible in prayer --
Reading the Bible for personal application --
Reading the Bible for preaching and worship --
The canon of scripture --
The canon of the Old Testament --
The canon of the New Testament --
The Apocrypha --
The reliability of Bible manuscripts --
The reliability of Old Testament manuscripts --
The reliability of New Testament manuscripts --
Archaeology and the Bible --
Archaeology and the Old Testament --
Archaeology and the New Testament --
The original language of the Bible --
Hebrew and Aramaic, and how they work --
Transliteration of Hebrew words --
Greek, and how it works --
Transliteration of Greek words --
The Septuagint --
How the NT quotes and interprets the OT --
OT passages cited in the NT --
The Bible in Christianity --
Roman Catholicism --
Eastern Orthodoxy --
Liberal Protestantism --
Evangelical Protestantism --
Evangelical Protestantism and global Christianity --
The Bible and world religions --
The Bible and contemporary Judaism --
The Bible and other world religions --
The Bible and Islam --
The Bible and religious cults --
Mormonism --
Jehovah's Witnesses --
Christian Science --
New Age Movement --
History of salvation in the OT: preparing the way for Christ --
Concordance --
Weights and measures --
Colophon --
Map supplement.

✦ Subjects

Bible -- Study and teaching.;Bible.;Study skills.