The Old Scofield® Study Bible, KJV, Classic Edition 2nd Edition

Study Bible. Very good reference bible.

Perfect study Bible. Works great side by side with the Ryrie. Always recommend this publisher to my friends.

The Bible came as described. Great size making it easier to read without damaging eyes. Bought this for my daughter as a gift. The Bible is kept in it's box to stay in good condition. Great buy for the price. And our brand preference is Scofield for scripture reading.

Bought at suggestion of my former Pastors sister. Am loving it

It's difficult to get a true perspective of this Old Scofield Classic Edition because, 1) Oxford reissued an updated version in 1996 which took the subject chain references from the 1967 New Scofield and added them to the original subject chain references (that's right, a 1996 old Scofield is now (so called) "new and improved"). So Oxford came out with this "classic edition" for we folk who didn't want the (so called) "new and improved" edition, which is the exact much-loved 1945 edition (by the way, Oxford has not offered the "classic" 1945 edition in large print. For that, you have to get the (so called) "new and improved" 1996 version). And, 2) if all this sounds confusing and borderline insane, Amazon makes it worse by combining all the customer comments for all the various and sundry editions of the Old Scofield. I bought the Cowhide edition of the "classic" edition. It is fabulous! My eyes have been failing for many years now and aren't so good. But the text is easily readable with a $1.25 pair of 2.50 or 2.75 reading glasses. However, it has an undeserved 4 1/2 star rating because the comments contain hundreds of comments for inferior bindings. My main Bible is Stern's Jewish Bible (original 1998 edition). The Scofield's dispensational and premillenial/pretribulational notes are a wonderful compliment, not only to the KJV text, but also to Stern's. I highly recommend the Cowhide edition of the "classic", ISBN: ‎978-0195274691.

First a little background. My grandfather was a preacher of the gospel that saw many miracles in his ministry. He was not a scholar, but he studied the Bible and preached revivals all over the world. Only God knows how many souls were won and lives were changed in those revivals. His favorite study Bible was the Scofield. It was the Bible that was purchased for every high school and college graduate that attended the home church. Upon graduation, I was given a Scofield Study Bible. It was one of the Bible’s that I used when I began preaching. It was used so much that it fell apart and is no longer usable. Then when my grandfather died, he left me an original Scofield edition in premium bonded leather, gold lined and sewn binding. He had read this Bible completely through when he was forced to lie in bed for many months after a surgery. This Bible contains one torn page because one night I was praying with my face down in the pages and my tears soaked the page. That was the night that God put it in my heart to move across the country for the purpose of ministry.Needless to say, the Scofield Bible is special to me. Both of my Scofields are well worn, so when I saw Amazon was selling them for 19 dollars, I knew I needed one.Quality: The edition I purchased was black bonded leather. It is stiff as expected and does feel cheap, but it does look nice. The product description says sewn binding, but it is actually glued so it probably won’t last 10 years. The gilding is decent and seems to sparkle. It is paste down liner and it is not edge lined. It will not open flat in Genesis. The ghosting is quite bad in sections and the pages are not very thick. The red lettering is too bright and some of the print is faded.Okay now that I’ve got the bad out of the way, let’s talk about the good. This is an absolute steal at 20 or 30 bucks. You get Scofields notes and reference system, a great concordance and index in the back and a handful of bible maps. No, this is not one of your modern study Bibles with flash and color, but what Scofield is missing in bells and whistles, it makes up for in charm. I love the size of this Bible. It is one one of the smallest and thinnest study Bibles that I know of, but it is extremely readable. The study system was revolutionary at the time. There’s just something special about this Bible.If you grew up with Scofield and desire another copy, you can’t go wrong for 20-30 bucks! I for one enjoy the memories that flood my mind when I pick up my new Scofield so I wholeheartedly endorse this Study Bible.

I like this Bible. Mine is free of the manufacturing defects enumerated in some other reviews. The print is uniform and the red letters pop out but are not overly bright. Some of the notes and subheadings are very clearly pushing a certain theology, one that does not necessarily reflect the most widely held orthodox Christian beliefs today, but still are interesting ways of thinking about the biblical text. I’m interested in these annotations as a historical document as much as anything else. They’re 104 years old. Other features to recommend this Bible are that is has a concordance which seems to be pretty thorough, and also a dictionary of proper names. There’s also a subject index. The maps look pretty old, which is another cool feature. I just like old stuff. The center column references help me to make connections I hadn’t made before. The book intros are reflective of the kind of scholarship that was available at the time, which was not as advanced as what we have today, but they still help me learn something. Whether you agree with dispensationalism in principle or not, I think this Bible is a good addition to any collection. Also I do think the KJV, while it has certain faults, is a very beautiful translation, and keeps me enamored with the biblical text, wanting to read more.As far as the book itself, the cover is kind of a coffee-colored bonded leather, the pages have gilt edges and there’s a ribbon marker. It is regular sized/personal size. Not sure what size the font is and I have no way to measure it but it’s not particularly huge. It seems similar to what you would find in a standard newspaper.