EOB stands for Eastern / Greek Orthodox Bible. It is complete translation of the Holy Scriptures based on the Greek text of the Old Testament (Septuagint / LXX) and for the New Testament on the official ecclesiastical text published in 1904 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

The main purpose of the EOB is to provide an English text of the Holy Scriptures that is suitable for use by Orthodox Christian communities and individuals. Because it is controlled and updated within the Orthodox community, it is independent from non-Orthodox commercial publishers and can benefit from constant input from Eastern Orthodox scholars and theologians. For the New Testament, the EOB is an Orthodox translation of the official Greek text used in the Greek Orthodox world which also takes into account the so-called Majority and Critical texts. It also provides extensive footnotes and Appendices dealing with significant verses such as Matthew 16:18; John 1:1,18; John 15:26. The Old Testament is a completely updated, corrected and revised text based on Brenton's translation of the Septuagint but with consultation of the standard Greek Orthodox text published by Apostoliki Diakonia. This decision which allows for convenient access to the underlying Greek text. Many inter-LXX, LXX/Masoretic text, and LXX/Dead Sea Scroll variants are documented in footnotes.

LXX/NT or MT/NT agreements are also footnoted.

Note: EOB OT has been postponed until the end of the year with a new target date of December 2008. The reason is that the intent has changed: the EOB/OT will contain all significant variants to various LXX manuscripts and to the Masoretic Text. Hence, the goal is to produce a volume that fully documents the biblical text. See Zacharias / Zachariah and Malachias / Malachi for a sample. Contributors are needed to help complete the project.

For reasons documented in the comprehensive introductory section, the EOB also provides the Hebrew / Masoretic versions (WEB) of Job, Jeremiah and Esther.

The EOB provides over 200 pages of introduction material and appendices, including articles by the late Rev. Protopresbyter George Florovsky and Pr. Miltiades Konstantinou of the Aristotle University of Thessalonica.

Orthodox Christians are invited to take advantage of this edition of the Holy Bible and to participate in the ongoing improvement process. Please consider becoming a contributor on the final OT editing phase.

The EOB is presented in honor of the late Archbishop Vsevolod of Scopelos (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA, in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople).

The New Testament is available to download and purchase in print format; however, it is awaiting proper ecclesiastical blessing and has been presented (01/2008) to various hierarchs for this purpose.