The CSB Ancient Faith Study Bible

A review of the Christian Standard Bible (CSB) Ancient Faith Study Bible, ISBN: 9781535940474. This edition of the CSB features commentary from Christian writers who lived in the first six centuries A.D. Text is laid out in two columns formatted into paragraphs.

The font in the text is 10.25 points, and line spacing is sufficient.The paper is cream in color with a matte surface, but ghosting is noticeable and sometimes annoying. The notes are presented in an 8 point font, usually in three text columns at the bottom of the page. The three-column concordance is 108 pages long, with entries in an 8 point font.

This Bible also includes eight color maps printed on non-glossy paper. The words of Christ are in black ink. Page edges are covered in gold.

Detailed contents

00:00 Dimensions, margins, layout, font ... (four charts)
00:25 A look at the box
01:17 Size compared to the English Standard Version (ESV) Study Bible and the Orthodox Study Bible (OSB)'02:01 Page layout
04:05 The font in the text
05:35 The font in the text and translation notes; and in the page-bottom commentary
06:29 Paper qualities: thickness, color, glossiness, opacity (ghosting)
07:25 Print non-uniformity (fading) is minimal
07:55 Book introductions
09:30 The words of Christ are in black ink!
09:50 The articles
10:29 The article on Christian Worship in the Second Century
11:47 The biographies
12:04 The biographical information on the Cappadocian Fathers
13:05 The articles on heresies and heretics (Twisted Truth)
13:25 The article on Apollinaris (aka Apollinarius)
13:50 The quotations from Augustine's Confessions
14:20 The Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed
15:35 Suggested Reading, Biographical Index, and Concordance
17:00 The lined notes pages
17:20 The eight color maps and the stitching in the gutter
18:20 The cloth-over-board cover
18:32 The ribbon markers and the head and tail bands
19:30 This Bible lies open and relatively flat
20:40 The copyright page
21:40 Table of contents
23:43 A close-up look at the font
24:32 The font compared to that in the Orthodox Study Bible
24:51 The font compared to that in the ESV Study Bible
25:14 The footnotes were extracted from the "Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture" series
27:50 Athanasius on the canon of Scripture
30:06 Dependence of various translations on the Masoretic text
31:25 A translation based on the LXX would have been better: the note at Dt 33.25
33:18 A translation based on the LXX would have been better: the note at Dt 28.66
35:17 A translation based on the LXX would have been better: the article at Proverbs 8.22
36:15 Allegorical interpretations: Genesis 18.6 -- three measures of flour and the Trinity
37:24 Exodus 3.14: The Son of God is "I AM"
38:08 Genesis 19.24: no note explaining that the two Lords are the Father and the Son
39:24 Sacraments. John 6.53 and infant communion
40:57 Mt 26.26 and the Eucharist
42:15 Acts 3.28 and baptism
43:16 Eschatology. 2 Thess 2.7-8 and the Antichrist
44:33 Daniel's 70 weeks and the lack of an explanatory note45:10 Hippolytus on Daniel's 70 weeks
45:51 Revelation 20.7 and the Millennium
47:00 Justin Martyr on the Millennium
47:38 The CSB on the translation continuum
48:06 The CSB's New Testament tends to agree with Nestle-Aland, not with Robinson-Pierpont
48:50 Summary