High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The MacArthur Study Bible, first issued in 1997 by Word Publishing (which has since been acquired by Thomas Nelson), is a study Bible edited by evangelical Bible expositor John F. MacArthur with introductions and notes pertaining to verses in all the books of the Bible. It also has charts, maps, personal notes, Biblical harmonies, chronologies of Old Testament kings and prophets, and appendices. MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church and president 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.