Orthodox Study Bible for iPhone & iPod touch

Our Orthodox Study Bible app for the iPhone & iPod touch is now available in the App Store!

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 newly translated from the Greek text of the Septuagint, including the Deuterocanon
• New Testament from the New King James Version
• Commentary drawn from the early Church Christians
• Book Introductions and Outlines
• And more! :)

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3 Maccabees in KJV

A King James Version of 3 Maccabees is available, so why doesn't VerseWise KJV include it?

The source I used for KJV did not include it, so I did not know it was available!

Update:

Turns out my original conclusion was correct. The 3 Maccabees source I thought I found turned out to be 1 Esdras. And viewing this list of books in the King James, 3 Maccabees is not there. Case closed.

3 Maccabees is in the Revised Standard Version, so if you are interested in it take a look at VerseWise Bible RSV.

RSV now in store

I'm happy to announce that VerseWise Bible^® RSV has now been approved for sale and is available in the iPhone App Store.

I'm excited about its release because I think it is one of the few iPhone Bibles that include the deuterocanon, the books that were in the common Bible of Jesus' and the apostles' day (the Septuagint) but have since been removed from the Protestant canon. (Don't worry, it defaults to "off" if you only want the Protestant Bible!) And there are even a couple not in the Catholic canon.

There's the running joke about people who have an incredible preference for the King James Bible saying, "If it was good enough for John the Baptist, it's good enough for me!" (The joke being the KJV didn't come around until 1611.) Well, in the case of the Septuagint, the saying might be true!

Feel free to email me or leave comments about this release.

RSV almost ready

I have completed the text processing for the RSV deuterocanonical books. When that option is turned on, the Old Testament books are ordered according to the Septuagint, from which the deuterocanonical text comes. (Makes a certain amount of sense to do it that way, doesn't it?)

• Genesis
• Exodus
• Leviticus
• Numbers
• Deuteronomy
• Joshua
• Judges
• Ruth
• 1 Samuel
• 2 Samuel
• 1 Kings
• 2 Kings
• 1 Chronicles
• 2 Chronicles
• 1 Ezra
• 2 Ezra
• Nehemiah
• Esther
• Judith
• Tobit
• 1 Maccabees
• 2 Maccabees
• 3 Maccabees
• Psalms
• Prayer of Manasseh
• Job
• Proverbs
• Ecclesiastes
• Song of Solomon
• Wisdom of Solomon
• Sirach
• Hosea
• Joel
• Amos
• Obadiah
• Jonah
• Micah
• Nahum
• Habakkuk
• Zephaniah
• Haggai
• Zechariah
• Malachi
• Isaiah
• Jeremiah
• Baruch
• Lamentations
• Letter of Jeremiah
• Ezekiel
• Daniel

Along with some additional books, there is also additional text in a few books.

• Psalm 151
• Prayers, other narrative elements in Esther
• Susanna, Song of the Young Men, Bel & the Dragon in Daniel

Even if you're a Protestant, I think these texts should be of interest, their being in the Bible of Jesus' and the Apostles' time.

I only need to finish the logic for switching the deuterocanon on and off. That shouldn't take more than a day. After some testing, I hope to have it submitted to the store (to be approved after a week?) by the weekend.

Update 7/19

I have just submitted RSV to the store. Hopefully it will be approved as quickly as RSV-CE was.

Psalms numbering in Douay-Rheims

I've had a couple questions come in recently about how the Psalms are numbered in the Douay-Rheims Bible. In some places it can appear they're off by one or two. There is a good explanation on Wikipedia.

Basically, the Douay uses the numbering from the Septuagint, which is the Bible that Jesus and the Apostles used. So, no need to feel bad because you're different! :)