How is the binding???? Call me a book snob, but I hate spending serious book money on expensive glued together Bibles.
I’ll keep my eye on amazon, you might get a practiacally new one for a penny, Many big book dealers selling books for a penny and they make their profit off of the shipping. Of course the books they offer for a penny are the mass produced books.
I bought the ESV study Bible in bonded leather. I can’t speak about the other bindings, but this one seems great. The Bible has amazing illustrations, maps, terrific footnotes, etc.
I’m Catholic so I steer clear of the Protestant/latter day interpretive bias in the Bible, but I still thoroughly enjoy the information I find in it. I don’t think you’ll regret buying it. I think the ESVSB is a forshadowing of what the Ignatius Study Bible will be like when finished in two or three years. Supposedly the NT will be ready in 2009.