Among the work's critics, Archimandrite Ephrem, writing in the Orthodox Christian journal "Sourozh", has stated that the commentary "feels far too much like a piece of evangelical propaganda decked out in the trappings of Orthodoxy." Priest Seraphim Johnson has written in "The Orthodox Christian Witness" that "the Study Bible reproduces the whole textual apparatus of the NKJV, including many of the doubtful decisions of modern non-Orthodox biblical scholarship." (Both of these reviews review the 1993 edition of the Orthodox Study Bible, which included only the NT and Psalms.) Some of the issues raised in these reviews have been addressed in the 2008 edition.