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This web page provides a detailed description of the "American Standard Version Holy Bible" (ASV) Teacher's Edition (a Reference-Concordance/Study Edition) by Star. To Return to the product ordering page for religious books, click here.

This Bible is a BRAND NEW Gold Embossed Dark Burgandy Hardcover (in somewhat simulated Leather style) Bible called "The Holy Bible - American Standard Version - 1901 Edition". It is the Teacher's Edition and is thus a Study Bible! The copyright date is 1901 and it also has the copyright renewal date of 1929. No printing/publish date is indicated, but this particular one was published recently by Star. This edition is about 1 cm wider than prior printings by Star, and this one appears to have been printed last year. This particular one is very special because it includes center column scripture cross references with footnotes, Bible Dictionary with photos (118 pages!), Concordance to American Standard Version along with the alternate renderings of the King James Authorized Version (234 pages!), and Bible Maps! As a result this edition has the same features of the older Teachers' Editions of Thomas Nelson, except that the Star edition does not include the Preface to the New Testament but I will include a photocopy of it. The details are as follows:

• Print is standard size for Bibles (small), typeface is not indicated.
• This Bible is BRAND NEW, still in the original shrinkwrap! Note: This Reference-Concordance edition of the American Standard Version with Illustrated Bible Dictionary is extremely hard to obtain!
• The cover of the Bible is very beautiful and is dark burgandy colored (in somewhat simulated leather style) with gold embossing on the cover of the spine. The cover of the spine says "HOLY BIBLE - American Standard Version - 1901" in gold embossing. No title nor embossing is on the front cover of this edition (the prior edition by Star had a different cover design which included a starbust symbol, but this one is a later printing). The Bible measures 21.7 cm x 15.4 cm x 3.4 cm. It has 1438 pages. It consists of:
  • The Old Covenant (Testament) and New Covenant (Testament) only (Apocrypah is not included) along with a Preface for the Old Covenant
  • Scripture text is in two columns. The center column contains copious scripture cross references!
  • Footnotes, containing the literal meaning in the Hebrew and Greek and alternate renderings (these, as are the Bible text, are the same as in every edition of the American Standard Version which I have seen).
  • Dark burgandy ribbon bookmarker is included (something I have not noticed in any prior hardcover editions by Star).
  • Page headings. Verses are grouped into true paragraphs.
  • Four maps are in the front of the Bible
  • The back of the Bible has the following special sections:
    • The Concise Bible Dictionary with Numerous Illustrations, Based Upon The Illustrated Bible Treasury, written by leading scholars in America and Great Britain. (118 pages)
    • Note by the Publishers
    • List of Contributors to The Illustrated Bible Treasury, on which The Concise Bible Dictionary is based.
    • Key To The Signs Used In This Bible Dictionary
    • A Combined Concordance To the American Standard Bible, Dictionary of Proper Names, and Subject Index, Giving the text of the American Standard Version, with the Alternate Readings in the King James Version (234 pages). It includes over 10,000 references to the Authorized Version of 1611.
  • Note: Due to an error by the publisher's printer, the main title page (the one for the front of the Bible) of this edition is replaced by the title page of this Bible's Bible Dictionary (that title page is also in the back where it belongs), however if the correct one was present in the front of the Bible it would say "The HOLY BIBLE - Containing the Old and New Testaments - Translated Out of the Original Tongues - Being the Version Set Forth A.D. 1611 Compared with the Most Ancient Authorities and Revised A.D. 1881-1885 - Newly Edited by the American Revision Committee A.D. 1901 - Standard Edition - ".
  • The copyright page says "This Standard American Edition of the Revised Version of the Bible, and editions in conformity with it published by Messrs. Thomas Nelson & Sons and certified by this indorsement, are the only editions authorized by the American Committee of Revision.
    
    George E. Day, Secretary of the Committe, and of the Old Testament Company.
    
    J. Henry Thayer, Secretary of the New Testament Company.
    
    Copyright, 1901,
    By Thomas Nelson & Sons.
    Copyright, 1929,
    By International Council of Religious Education
    To Insure Purity Of Text
• This Bible is a revision of the American Revised Version of the late 1880s-1890s, which in turn was the American Edition of the 1885 Revised Version Bible (also known as English Revised Version Bible), which in turn was a revision of the 1611 King James Authorized Version Bible. [The 1611 King James Authorized Version, was in turn a revision of the prior English versions of the Bible, namely the Bishop's Bible, the Geneva Bible, Matthews's Bible, Coverdale's Bible, William Tyndale's Bible, and even portions of the Douay-Rheims Bible.] The American Standard Version Bible was the first English language Bible to use the Divine Name in the form of Jehovah (instead of the titles of LORD and GOD in its place) throughout the Old Testament (Hebrew Scriptures) wherever its Tetragrammaton form (JHVH or YHWH) appeared in the ancient Hebrew manuscripts of the Hebrew Scriptures. Previous major English translations only had it in a few places, for example the King James Version had it in only four places, such as Exodus 6:3 and Psalms 83:18. In all other places the King James Bible had rendered God's name simply by the titles GOD and LORD in all capital letters. However William Tyndale's translation of the first five books of the Old Testament, had the name Jehovah emphasized in his appendix to Genesis. There Tyndale stressed the importance of knowing that God the Father's name is Jehovah! The American Standard Version translation also consistently rendered the Hebrew word Sheol and the Greek word Hades as such, rather than inconsistently rendering these words as grave, pit, and Hell as was done in the King James and English Revised Version. The Greek words Gehenna and Tartarus are rendered as hell, but the footnotes provide the Greek word of Gehenna or Tartarus. These features allow Bible students to learn the true meaning of what the state of the dead is, by seeing the context in which those Hebrew and Greek words appear.
• Due to the American Standard Version's restoration of God's name Jehovah (the most popular form of God's name in English (more popular than the form Yahweh)) to the Bible, due to the consistent rendering of the words Sheol, Hades, and Gehenna, and due to other improvements, this Bible became highly favored by the members of International Bible Students Association (the members later became known as Jehovah's Witnesses). The Jehovah's Witnesses are known for promoting God's name Jehovah and for teaching that the dead are merely unconscious in the grave (Sheol and Hades) rather than some of the dead being in an eternal fiery hell. The Seventh Day Adventists, Christadelphians, Church of God General Conference (Abrahamic Faith), Church of God (Seventh Day), and many other adventist religions, also have the same teaching regarding the state of the dead. The American Standard Version was also highly popular with Evangelical Christians in the USA because of its highly accurate literal translation. Many Evangelicals now use the New American Standard Bible, which uses contemporary language but has sadly removed the name Jehovah/Yahweh from the English translation of the Bible (except in the preface and a footnote).
• This Bible has center margin scripture cross-references and footnotes which include Alternate Renderings including sometimes the literal meaning in the Hebrew or Greek. It also includes maps, a Concordance, and a Bible Dictionary!

The American Standard Version Bible (not the newer New American Standard Bible) is very hard to find these days. Star, the organization which published this one, is a small publisher and was the last to publish this Bible translation with the verses in paragraph format (and in the Preface of the Old Covenant the translators say that having the verses in paragraph format is a key feature of their American Standard Version translation). The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society (the publishing organization of Jehovah's Witnesses) used to publish their edition of the American Standard Version until a few years ago. Thomas Nelson & Sons and other large Bible publishers ceased publishing it a long time ago.

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