English Orthodox Bible

Dinu Mihaita Nicolae

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About this app

This is an English Orthodox Bible. The application is still under construction. Please support the developer.
I saw that there is no Orthodox Bible on Android, so I decided to start to build one.
Do not confound Orthodoxy with Coptics. This is a genuine Greek Orthodox Bible translated into English by authorized people.
The text of this Bible is a translation from Septuagint. It is the same text used by the American Orthodox Church and most Bible Studies.

For more study, take a look at Codex Sinaiticus.

http://www.codex-sinaiticus.net/en/

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The EOB is a complete Orthodox translation of The Holy Bible. Unlike other versions, the EOB provides over 200 pages of introductory material and appendices, including articles by the late Rev. Protopresbyter George Florovsky and Pr. Miltiades Konstantinou of the Aristotle University of Thessalonica. The main purpose of the EOB is to provide an accurate and easy-to-read English text of the Holy Scriptures that is suitable for use by Orthodox Christian communities and individuals, while providing an outstanding text for scholars.

The Old Testament (in progress) is based on the Greek text of the Old Testament (Septuagint / LXX) with all major Masoretic and Dead Sea Scroll variants documented in the footnotes. For reasons documented in the comprehensive introductory section, the EOB also provides the Hebrew / Masoretic versions (WEB) of Job, Jeremiah and Esther.

The New Testament (completed and available) is based on the official ecclesiastical text published in 1904 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (again documenting all significant variants to the Critical Text, Majority Text and Textus Receptus). It also provides extensive footnotes and Appendices dealing with significant verses such as Matthew 16:18; John 1:1,18; John 15:26. The Patriarchal text was selected on Mount Athos from among a large number of reliable ecclesiastical manuscripts and appears to be identical or similar to Minuscule 1495 (KR subgroup).
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Scripture taken from the St. Athanasius Academy Septuagint™. Copyright © 2008 by
St. Athanasius Academy of Orthodox Theology. Used by permission. All rights
reserved.

Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas
Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.”

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* This is a non-profit app. If you have any copyright claim, contact me at once.

Ratings and reviews

If you happen to select the magnifier feature, there doesn't seem to be any way to (incrementally) zoom back to normal. You can close and re-open the app to get back to the default font size, but if you touch the magnifier again it jumps to the last (largest) magnification you ever previously selected. How to gradually lessen the zoom feature on an Android?

It looks to me that the NT is the KJV not the EOB (Eastern Orthodox Bible). From what i can see the OT may be the Greek septuagint version, but still trying to verify. If this app could use the EOB for the NT i would change to 5 stars, once i verify the OT is the Greek version also. Other features would be nice like bookmarking and searching. But not essential for 5 stars. The proper books are the only important thing.

Very good! And very useful! Over all, a great app, that is surely useful, and maybe even necessary, for any English-speaking Orthodox Christian. Edit: I have noticed that some Psalms are missing some final verses... Further edit: the "save" function no longer works for me...