ESV Student Study Bible (TruTone, Navy/Slate, Timeless Design) Imitation Leather – February 27, 2020

Beautiful study Bible. Durable, nice colors.

We’ve been researching study Bibles for several months; trying to find the best option for our teenager. We landed on this ESV Student Study Bible, as we were confident in the study notes written and edited by JI Packer, and Wayne Grudem. And we felt like the articles and “extras” were a better fit for our intellectual teen, than the things in the ESV Teen Study Bible. We also see this as being a long term study Bible, well into his adult years.It’s a thicker Bible, since it’s a study bible. But the tru tune cover is sturdy and seems well made. The pages seem thinner than normal to me but it may just be the ink/text type, since you can see through it.I’ve included several pictures, so you can see what’s all included. Especially some of the “articles” written in the back.

The media could not be loaded. I bought the teal cover first and it was slick, cheap-feeling plastic. This one is MUCH nicer. It looks like leather (sort of) and has a nice feel. The contents are based on the full-sized study Bible- smaller print and maybe summarized to a little more than half the original note's content. There is no way I would carry the full-sized study bible around, so it's a good compromise. I like it.

Crossway offers many options for study bibles — almost too many. They generally fall into “full” and “compact” versions. The compact reduces the amount of notes for portability. The “student” bible is one of the compact versions, aimed at students. Despite the name, I found this bible perfectly appropriate for adults and bible students of any age or profession.What makes this bible stand out is attention to detail in the content and the typography at a very approachable price.On the content side, I appreciate the amount of summarization and overview material. Including Old, New testament, a summary for each book, reviews/summaries of primary characters (e.g. Paul, Timothy, David , etc), Historical & regional summaries etc. The material is very thorough for beginners to experts. And crossway has been careful to distinguish from biblical word and non-biblical historical content.In a dense study bible, high quality Typography is very important to assist readability. Crossway does a great job using brown to distinguish diagrams, summaries, side-bars , maps and other highlights throughout each book. The bible and notes are both distinguishable type, and the paper is a good compromise of thickness and opaqueness. There’s only minimal bleed and it doesn’t affect readability for me ( i don’t use glasses).My only complaint is the lack of highlighting Christ’s word in red as found in many bibles. An acceptable setback.If you are new to the bible, the Crossway ESV Study bible is a great match for anyone . It’s a comprehensive study bible that’s also portable . And the ESV translation is both very readable and closer to a word-for-word translation than NIV.If you are on the fence , go for it. You may be using a bible app , or just curious about the bible. You’ll find so much historical and cultural influence throughout the bible. Nearly every story , every idiom, so many names of your friends and family , and so much of history has origins in the bible. Everyone should have one of these at home.

Bought this copy for a friend.

My grandson loved it and I love this translation for his age. His favorite color is blue so this was perfect.

Got this for my husband and he’s very happy with it.

Really like the ESV study Bible, our church recently started using the ESV and I'm enjoying it so far. I got this for my son in middle school, the text is sound, and the additional commentary and cross references are very helpful - Highly recommend this for middle school/high schoolers.