The NIV Biblical Theology Study Bible

A review of the NIV Biblical Theology Study Bible (ISBN 9780310450504). This Bible features the text of the 2011 revision of the New International Version (NIV) arranged in a single text column, formatted into paragraphs, for the 66 books of the Protestant canon. The font in the text is 9.1 points. It includes 20,000 study notes printed in ~7.5 point font. The paper is reasonably opaque and show-through (ghosting) is a minor issue.

The volume is bound in tan and caramel imitation leather. The binding is sewn and the Bible lies open in both Genesis and Exodus. The wide inner margin generally keeps the text out of the gutter and on the flat portion of the page. The words of Christ are in black ink.


Detailed contents

00:00 Dimensions, margins, layout, font ..., four slides
00:16 Unboxing
02:08 Size compared to the ESV Study Bible
02:27 Size compared to the NKJV Study Bible
02:48 The box
03:12 Page layout
04:50 The font in the text
05:38 The marginal references
06:34 The font in the study notes
06:55 Paper qualities (weight, glossiness, color, opacity)
07:38 Book and section introductions
09:40 The words of Christ are in black ink
10:04 Table of weights and measures
10:19 The 28 articles
11:00 The concordance
11:56 The binding is sewn
12:07 The map index
12:18 The 14 color maps
12:56 The paste-off construction
13:45 The Bible lies open and relatively flat in Genesis
14:59 The copyright page
15:10 The table of contents
16:50 The editorial team
17:07 Old Testament chronology
17:57 Ribbon measurements
18:33 A close-up look at the font
18:58 The font compared to that in an NIV Single-Column Reference Bible printed in 2011
19:21 The font compared to that in an ESV Study Bible printed circa 2008
19:39 The font compared to that in the NASB MacArthur Study Bible with Comfort Print font
20:01 The font compared to that in the NRSV New Oxford Annotated Bible, 5th edition
20:16 The NIV as a translation: it employs the singular 'they'
21:28 How literal is the NIV? The translation continuum chart
21:52 How frequently does the NIV stray from the Masoretic Text?
22:15 The NIV's New Testament compared to the Nestle-Aland, Robinson-Pierpont, Westcott & Hort, and Tyndale House Greek New Testaments
23:30 The article entitled "Sin", by Kevin DeYoung
25:21 The footnote at Genesis 6.2. Who were the sons of God?
26:00 The major covenants in the Old Testament
26:28 The footnote at Genesis 15.6. Abraham believed God ...
27:06 The footnote at 2 Sam 21.19. Elhanan and Goliath.
27:46 The footnote at Psalm 2
28:10 The footnote at Isaiah 9.6
28:54 The footnote summarizing the song of the suffering servant, Isaiah 52.13-53
29:29 The table of New Testament quotations from or references to Isaiah 52.13-53
29:38 The footnotes at Daniel 9.24 and 9.25-27. Daniel's seventy weeks.
30:19 The footnote at Zechariah 12.10. "They will look on me, the one they have pierced ..."
30:56 The footnote on Matthew 28.18 -- The Great Commission and baptism
31:40 The footnote at 1 Peter 3.21, baptism now saves you
32:34 The footnote at Luke 22.19, "this is my body"
33:27 The footnote at 1 Cor 11.24, "this is my body"
33:59 The footnote at 1 Cor 13.8-10 and the cessation of spiritual gifts
34:34 The footnote at 1 Tim 2.12, women in authority
35:04 The footnote at 1 Peter 3.19, the imprisoned spirits
35:38 The introduction to Revelation and the millennium
36:21 This Bible fits in the large canvas cover
37:40 Summary