I just received this Bible for Mother's Day. My goal is to read the entire Bible, commentary, articles and text. I will now read this side-by-side with the African Bible Commentary. After I finish the African Bible Commentary, I will continue in this Bible to cover the entire work. 
 The commentary and articles are EXCELLENT. I am thoroughly enjoying the insights into ancient culture, geography and history. 
 I'm disappointed in the maps in the back, I was expecting a lot more in that regard. They appear to be the standard maps given with the NIV translation. I was hoping for more detail and more geographic insight, such as maps of excavation sites in the Middle East, possibly geographic representations of the location of major archeological finds in the past 50 years, a detailed map of the Israelite conquest (as opposed to just the land division once settled), the travels and miracles of Jesus, etc. 
 That being said this is an excellent work of scholarship and the presentation (full color) has a high aesthetic appeal. Of course, the 60% off price we got it for also covers over a multitude of sins! :) I am looking forward to reading this Bible, and keeping it on our reference shelf to refer to in years to come.