Orthodox Study Bible

VDUB Software, LLC

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About this app

The Orthodox Study Bible presents the Bible of the early church and the church of the early Bible. This first-of-its-kind study Bible is presented with commentary from the ancient Christian perspective that speaks to those Christians who seek a deeper experience of the roots of their faith.

- Old Testament translated from the Greek text of the Septuagint, including the Deuterocanon ("St. Athanasius Academy Septuagint")
- New Testament from the New King James Version
- Commentary drawn from the early Church Christians
- Book Introductions and Outlines

SPECIAL TO THE OSB APP:
- Daily Epistle & Gospel per Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church in Baltimore (Old Calendar) and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (New Calendar)
- Morning & Evening prayers with appropriate day's Psalm inserted

The "Today" screen is available for free:
- Daily readings with accompanying footnotes and the occasional topical article
- Morning & evening prayers

One can access all of the Orthodox Study Bible content with a single in-app purchase. No subscription is necessary.

Ratings and reviews

Almost perfect. If I had the ability to tap on a verse and have it bring me to the footnote instead of having to press the three dots in the corner and then the footnote section to access footnotes every time it would be 5 stars. This forces me to press the top right corner constantly or to wait until I reach the end of a chapter to open the footnotes, which is also inconvenient as I don't always remember what the content of the verse which the footnote is commenting on after reaching the end

"A very good app for reading and studying the Orthodox Study Bible. Adding audio would make it even better. We can read some portion offline not all. Currently, the footnotes are not clickable—please fix this."

Edit: developer implemented the one feature I missed most (tap verse to see footnotes). Now and easy 5-star rating! Good value for money. Tapping references to other verses in the footnotes shows the referenced verse as a pop-up. Very powerful!

What's new

- Added Kathismata, Gospels and Epistles reading plans
- Updated Today screen
- Can now show/hide Old/New Calendar readings
- Added "My Books" and "My Reading Plans" for convenient access
- Improved Footnotes scripture reference links
- Moved "Continue reading" buttons out of scrollable lists so they're always accessible
- Fixed remaining broken Reading Plan entries (particularly in Lectionary)
- And fixed some typos