Yesterday afternoon, I received the brown calfskin Cambridge Diadem NRSVue with Apocrypha which I preordered. I’ll be publishing a follow-up review at a later date after I spend some quality time using this Bible. In the meantime, here are several quick observations for anyone who is considering preordering this Bible to take advantage of the preorder discount:
The calfskin is soft and flexible — truly a joy to hold.
I checked the verses and footnotes for the full list of errata for the NRSVue, and almost all of the listed corrections are present in this edition (including the updated footnotes for 1 Cor 6:9 and 1 Tim 1:10). There are 4 corrections from the errata list which are not present:
- The change to the title page for the full Bible
- The change to the title page for the Old Testament
- A change from “NRSV” to “NRSVue” in the introduction to Greek Esther
- A grammatical change to the subject heading for Greek Esther 1:1.
There is some noticeable variation in print darkness in my copy. It reminds me of the print variation in the Schuyler Quentel ESV with Apocrypha which I noted in my review of that edition. In more than one place, I’ve found abnormally bold, dark ink in the inner column of the left-hand page, and lighter printing in the outer column on the right-hand page. So far, I have not found anything that interferes with reading.
The font size is listed as 8.2 pt, but based on my homemade font size comparison sheet, the lower case letters are equivalent to 9.25 pt Times New Roman.
The center column cross-references appear to be identical to the references in the old NRSV Reference Edition from Cambridge.
The center column is noticeably narrower than the ESV Diadem, and as a result, the columns of biblical text are slightly wider than the ESV Diadem.
Textual footnotes are tiny. They are equivalent in size to 5.25 pt Times New Roman. By contrast, the textual notes in the ESV Diadem are equivalent to 7.0 pt Times New Roman.