The long-awaited Old Testament translation of the Orthodox Study Bible is coming out this summer (July I believe). This includes the Apocryphal books, and will be added to the Psalms and New Testament to make it complete. These translations are coming from the Septuagint, which was the Greek version that was in use during Christ’s time, rather than from the Masoretic Hebrew texts that date from the 9th century A.D, which the King James and other English versions are translated from.

I don’t know about you, but from the age of about three I saw the immense problems in using a Christian Bible from a Jewish translation, and was demanding to my parents that someone undertake an English translation from the Septuagint. I guess my voice was heard.