I want to pitch a concept out there, and see how people feel about this. What would you all say to something akin to the Thompson Chain-Reference Bible, but from an Orthodox perspective? Since I became a Christian a little over 7 years ago, I have found no resource to be even remotely as helpful in studying the Scripture as this type of system. And as I used this very Bible to dig up passages for some posts over the last couple days, it occurred to me that this type of Bible from an Orthodox perspective could greatly help out biblical literacy in the Church (not that I'm saying it's bad, but there's always room for improvement!) It would also facilitate our talking with others about the faith, in that we could answer their questions "staight from Scripture" in a much easier and more systematic and detailed way, whereas with just a regular bible it is sometimes intimidating if you are forgetting addresses and fumbling around trying to look for passages you thought you knew the location of.
Orthodox Chain-Reference Bible
Hi,
I think this is what all of us English Speaking Orthodox have been waiting for. Looks like we may have to wait till the end of this year though. 
Check out http://www.lxx.org/
Kolya
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Justin Kissel
I think they are roughly the same people, yes. Though they may have taken some of the justified criticisms to heart, and I think they also have a better budget and organization to work with this time around. On the other hand, I think some people were too hard on the OSB, I read about 3 or 4 critiques of it and some of the criticisms were IMO nit picky. I'm not going to say whether I prefer the OSB or another Orthodox Bible (e.g., Holy Apostles Convent), because I think they are used for different purposes. I will say though that the OSB has probably done more to spread the word about the Orthodox Church and the Orthodox faith than all the other Orthodox Bibles or parts of the Bible put into English combined.
The chain-reference system isn't nearly as exhaustive as a concordance, so in that way it isn't as useful (though the Thompson chain-reference bible does have a mini-concordance in the back that is over 100 pages long). But the thing is, most people aren't going to sit down with a Strongs concordance or whatever and search through the Scripture that way, unless they really need to do so. With the Thompson chain-reference Bible, the next passage on a given topic, person, etc. is given right there in the margin, or you can turn to the back and see a listing of Scriptures given which touch on the subject. Here are two examples: Example 1 Example 2
Also, in the back (index), you sometimes get the entire verse, and not just a snippet of the verse as in some condordances. And another advantage is that other information is given in the back (index), such as referring to other numbers for information, dividing up the information into topics (not just according to the word used), referring to archaeological information and other detailed information found in the bible, and so forth. So in some ways it's not as good as a concordance, but on the other hand it's a more complete studying system, and the quotes are systematically linked according to topic and not word. So for example, if you want to learn about man's vengeance, you can look just at the scriptures dealing with topic (you don't even have to flip to the back many times, it will direct you to wherever the next relevant verse is), and not have to sift through 20 passages more than you need using the word "vengeance" to find the 5 that deal specifically with the topic that is of interest to you.