The Logos Complete Study Bible is a study Bible published in 1972 by Logos International. It is based upon The Cross-Reference Bible, published in 1910.
The Logos Bible uses the 1901 American Standard Version (ASV) translation of the Bible, which has been called "The Rock of Biblical Honesty" by Bible scholars. This study Bible has:
100,000 cross-references, which is more than many study Bibles
Topical articles and analyses spread throughout the text
Variorum readings by some 150 scholars
No further editions were published. The company itself failed not many years after publication.
Comparison to The Cross-Reference Bible
The Scripture text, variant renderings and readings, topical analyses, most of the Preface, and Index of the Logos International Study Bible are almost entirely photo-reprinted from "The Cross-Reference Bible containing the Old and New Testaments", edited by Monser and copyright by him in 1910. The title page of the 1910 edition says "The text of this Bible is that of the American Standard Edition of the Revised Bible (Copyright, 1901, by Thomas Nelson & Sons), With Variorum Readings and Renderings, With Topical Analysis and Cross References." The Cross-Reference Bible was reprinted several times after 1910, including once by Baker Book House in 1959. The Logos edition excluded the following items from the Cross-Reference Bible:
Several paragraphs of the Cross-Reference Bible Preface, An entire page pertaining to abbreviations identifying New Testament manuscripts (such as part of the description of Codex Alexandrinus, as well as the entire description of Codex Vaticanus Graecus 1209, and numerous other Codices), A two-page section called Analysis of the Pentateuch, Extracts from the Preface to the American [Standard] Version, Index to Nelson's Bible Atlas, Index to Littlefield Maps, Color maps associated with the two map indexes.
The Logos edition added:
The Layman's Commentary on the Holy Spirit
A concordance drawn from the King James Version instead of the American Standard Version, A different set of color maps.
In-text features
The following example is part of the first column of page 1756, which includes parts of Matthew 2:23 and 3:1:
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Var. Rend.— V. 23 that ... Nazarene
—because he would be called a Nazarene, LUTHER; despised like a Nazarene, OL. LAN. W. BROAD. Nazarene—i.e. a 'netzer' or Branch with reference to Is. 11:1, Fri. DeW. Me. Wa. Delilzsh.; a Nazarite (i.e. separate with some reference to the order of Nazirites, Num. 6:1–20), Text. Jer., Mcl. ERASMUS, BEZA, HO, WET-STEIN, GROTTUS; the man of Nazareth, ME. BRU. Chap. J. — V. 1, cometh— comes forward. Al. steps forth, HO.;</poem> |- | colspan="2" style="font-size: 80%;"| * NAZARETH: A City of Galilee.—Mt. 2:23; 21:11; Mk. 1:9; Lu. 1:26. Build on a Hill—Lu. 4:29. Wicked and Despised City.—John 1:46. Their Unbelief— Mt. 13:54-58. Home of Joseph and Mary.—Lu. 1:26-30; 2:51 Home of Christ.—Mt. 2:23; 4:13; 13:54; 21:11; 26:71; Mk. 1:9, 24; 6:1; 10:47; 14:67; 16:6; Lu. 2:51; 4:34; 18:37; 24:19; John 1:45, 46; 19:19; Acts 2:22; 3:6; 4:10; 6:14; 10:38; 22:8; 26:9. Christ rejected at—Mk. 6:1-6; Lu. 4:29.
† JOHN THE BAPTIST: Career.—Announcement of Birth
—Lu. 1:5-25; Time in days of Herod the Great B.C. 6—
Lu 1:5. Piety and old age of Zacharias and Elizabeth—
Lu. 1:5 f. Barrenness of Elizabeth—Lu. 1:7. Zacharias a
Priest in service when the angel Gabriel appears to him.—Lu
1:8-13. The name of the child (John) given by the angel—
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