MacArthur Study Bible

{{short description|1997 study bible edited by John F. MacArthur}}

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The MacArthur Study Bible, first issued in 1997 by current HarperCollins brand W Publishing, is a study Bible edited by evangelical preacher John F. MacArthur with introductions and annotations to the 66 books of the Protestant Bible. It also includes charts, maps, study notes, Biblical harmonies, chronologies of Old Testament kings and prophets, and appendices. MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church and chancellor of The Master's Seminary, wrote more than half of the 20,000 entries himself in longhand, and reworked many of the others written by Seminary faculty.{{cite news |title=Valley Pastor Publishes Study Bible He Prepared in Longhand |date=1997-11-15 |author=Dart, John |journal=Los Angeles Times |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/22952506.html?dids=22952506:22952506&FMT=ABS |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120712221041/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/22952506.html?dids=22952506:22952506&FMT=ABS |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 12, 2012 |accessdate=2009-09-25 }}

Initially only available in the New King James Version, the MacArthur Study Bible is now also published using the New American Standard Bible, English Standard Version, Legacy Standard Bible, and New International Version translations, as well as in Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese. In 1998, it won the Gold Medallion Book Award for Study Bible of the Year,{{cite web |url=http://www.ecpa.org/christianbookawards/gm1998.php |title=1998 Gold Medallion Book Awards Winners |accessdate=2008-03-06 }} and as of 2007 had more than one million copies distributed.{{cite web|url=http://www.ecpa.org/gold_past.php |title=Gold / Platinum / Diamond Book Awards |accessdate=2008-03-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100210055332/http://www.ecpa.org/gold_past.php |archivedate=2010-02-10 }} It has also been criticized for its views on dispensationalist premillennialism in eschatology, and limited atonement.{{cite book |title=The Death Christ Died: A Biblical Case for Unlimited Atonement |author=Lightner, Robert P. |publisher=Kregel Publications |year=1998 |page=161 ff |isbn=0-8254-3155-7 }}