Best Catholic study Bible/commentary?

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Price/availability is not a concern. Only how historically accurate and faithful the notes are. Preferably from an orthodox point of view.

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Price/availability is not a concern. Only how historically accurate and faithful the notes are. Preferably from an orthodox point of view.

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Dear EphelDuath,

May God be with you!

Have you checked out Jeff Cavins, Bible Timeline series? Itā€™s orthodox and great!

God bless you!
 
I voted for the Navarre since itā€™s the only one Iā€™ve used. šŸ˜‰

I primarily use the Douay Rheims Bible, and when I have a question about a passage, I turn to the Navarre.

But Iā€™ve just recently started reading the Old Testament out of the Navarre. Iā€™ll read a chapter, and then read the commentary. Very slow going, but very insightful. Itā€™s prompted me to look at some passages in a different light.
 
Any of the choices you listed are good to have. Ideally, a serious Catholic Bible student should have a variety of resources to draw upon.

If I had to pick just one, and price no object, Iā€™d have to go with the Navarre because it meets my criteria of being:
  1. Orthodox
  2. Readable
  3. Complete (not a work in process)
  4. Both scholarly and spiritually uplifting.
  5. Up to date
  6. Orthodox
  7. Easily obtainable and replacable
  8. Room for notes (if I wanted to)
  9. Cross-reference-able
  10. Did I mention orthodox?
 
Is the Catholic Answers Bible any good?

Iā€™m assuming it refers to this website, which means are the notes references to Keatingā€™s and Akinā€™s articles?
 
Fidelis said:
Any of the choices you listed are good to have. Ideally, a serious Catholic Bible student should have a variety of resources to draw upon.

If I had to pick just one, and price no object, Iā€™d have to go with the Navarre because it meets my criteria of being:
  1. Orthodox
  2. Readable
  3. Complete (not a work in process)
  4. Both scholarly and spiritually uplifting.
  5. Up to date
  6. Orthodox
  7. Easily obtainable and replacable
  8. Room for notes (if I wanted to)
  9. Cross-reference-able
  10. Did I mention orthodox?
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The Navarre is complete? I thought they were still working on it. In any event, it is excellent, and if money and space were not issues, I would get both it and the Haydock, in order to have a complete library of resources.
 
What is a good commentary that addresses the findings of historical criticism methods (and other modern scholarship) but still maintaining orthodoxy? It still needs to be readable to the average person though.

Does anyone find the Haydock commentary to be too Catholic? Is it still good as apolegetic material, I know that the ECF commentary in it would be great.
 
Some time ago I was interested in ā€œA Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scriptureā€, but was discouraged when I heard it was not a book by book format. Does anyone have a second opinion on this book? Is it old-fashioned?
 
I have An Introduction to the Bible by Fr Laux, which I found to be a great introductory book for those who are familiar with the Douay Rheims version of Scripture. Its not a big book, but its orthodox (its published by TAN).
 
This is an interesting poll, but you are really asking two seperate questions. Study Bibles and Commentaries are really two different things. Typically a study Bible will be one volume that contains the biblical text, along side of various study helps including a commentary, maps, crossreferences, concordance, etcā€¦ A commentary will generally consist of detailed exegetical notes and comments about a book or series of Biblical books. While the study Bible will generally include a more diversity of study tools, a true commentary will be more indepth.

As for study Bibles:
  1. New Jerusalem Bible - I think this is the best one-volume Catholic study Bible on the market right now. It has far superior notes to The Catholic Study Bible (NAB) and anything you would find in the Oxford Annotated Bible.
1a) Ignatius Study Bible - I believe this will surpass the NJB study Bible mentioned above once it is completedā€¦which will probably by some time in 2030. JK

Commentaries:
There are many commentaries out there, often they vary in quality.
  1. For something that is rooted in the Church Fathers and magisterial pronouncementsā€¦certainly the Navarre Bible Commentary is outstanding. I would really love to have a one-volume Navarre Bible. It would probably become my most used one-volume Bible.
  2. A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture by Orchard is also very good, though a bit dated.
  3. The New Jerome Biblical Commentary is also decentā€¦but sometimes one needs to sift through some questionable exegetical conclusionsā€¦but it is still a very valuable resourse.
  4. I have also heard good things about the International Bible Commentary, which is an ecumenical commentary.
  5. Some protestant resources can also be consulted as well. Obvously one needs to be careful in certain matters, but the work of people like NT Wright or Ben Witherington could be very helpful. (NT Wright is actually my favorite author these days!)
 
1a) Ignatius Study Bible - I believe this will surpass the NJB study Bible mentioned above once it is completedā€¦which will probably by some time in 2030.
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Are you serious?!
 
MH84 said:
Are you serious?!
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No, I am exaggeratingā€¦but with the rate at which they are coming out now, it may be well into the next decade before it is completed. (I have been told that the delay is not the Hahn and Mitch, but rather with Ignatius Press.)
 
**The Haydock Commentary is now available online.

The new testament is complete and the old testament is about 3/4 complete.**
haydock1859.tripod.com/index.html

Javier, thanks !!!
This is FANTASTIC news.
I hope all Catholics will experience the richness and
faithfulness of the Haydock commentary.
I chose Haydock in the Poll.
My second choice would be a tie between
The Ignatius Study Bible and the Navarre Bible, as both are superb.

ā€œThe Catholic Bibleā€ edition of the NAB (paperback), which I bought 10 years ago, is problemmatic and actually in one of the intros or study comments (donā€™t remember which right now), it actually encouraged Catholics to agitate for the ordination of female priests. I got rid of it.
God bless,
Jaypeeto4
+JMJ+
 
If you are talking about the 1953 ā€œA Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture,ā€ you were misled. It does go through the Bible book by book. As a matter of fact, I have two copies at home. Hopefully this commentary wlll be reprinted, since I just checked on abe.com, which sells out-of-print books, and it sells for $150 there. However, this commentary is excellent.
MH84 said:
Some time ago I was interested in ā€œA Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scriptureā€, but was discouraged when I heard it was not a book by book format. Does anyone have a second opinion on this book? Is it old-fashioned?
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mdgspencer said:
If you are talking about the 1953 ā€œA Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture,ā€ you were misled. It does go through the Bible book by book. As a matter of fact, I have two copies at home. Hopefully this commentary wlll be reprinted, since I just checked on abe.com, which sells out-of-print books, and it sells for $150 there. However, this commentary is excellent.
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No, I got confused with another book:

A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture by Frederick Justus Knecht.

Thanks for bringing up the other book. Ive heard of it, but have never seen it.
 
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mccorm45:
  1. New Jerusalem Bible - I think this is the best one-volume Catholic study Bible on the market right now.
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There are either two, or three different editions of this Bible:
I made the mistake of buying The Readerā€™s Edition. It doesnā€™t have all of the footnotes and other study aids that the other editions have.

xan

jonathon
 
I have the New Jerusalem is Spanish, the commentaries are great.
 
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