Hi everyone,
Do you know where I can find a good set of orthodox Bible commentaries? I’ve visited my pastor last week with a youth group and I noticed he has a set of hard bound New Interpreter’s Bible that spanned twelve large volumes and has commentaries on all of scriptures from all Christian and secular groups.
I thought I would buy it until I found out from the reviews on Amazon that the interpretations are quite liberal, since there are commentaries from all Protestant spectrum. I would like a good set of good orthodox and catholic interpretations if there is a similar set out there. What would you recommend? Also provide a link if you know of one.
Many thanks!
Cheers,
Ben
You can download a good Catholic Bible Study program with a number of older Catholic commentaries that are sound and quote extensively from church fathers…
Over 18,000 hits on the site, over 38,000 downloads in about 1.5 yearrs…
The following may be helpful for seminary students, religious professor/faculty- teachers, any Catholic students taking religious education classes, and also may be of use in helping priests prepare sermons for Gospels readings of the day using Catholic commentaries, and church Fathers quotes, religious Education Directors and CCD Teachers, and of course it may be useful for any Catholic in learning more about their faith, Scripture etc… Please be sure to pass this along.
A great Catholic Bible and Catechetical Downloadable Resource & Study Software Program, and best of all its Free. From:
esnips.com/web/CatholicApolegetics
These are all eSword modules-Bibles, Commentaries, Dictionaries, and Topical all for the eSword base Bible software program… All to help Catholics and those interested in knowing more or understanding what the Catholic Church truly teaches and why. All modules are free as well as the Base esword program for download.
The Base progam is a free download at:
e-sword.net/downloads.html .
Rick Myers e-sword site states: e-Sword is a fast and effective way to study the Bible. E-Sword is feature rich and user friendly with more capabilities than you would expect in a free software package. The fact that e-Sword is free is just one of the blessings and does not speak of the quality of the software. I make my living writing software and I believe I have put forth my best effort in this endeavor. The real work, however, was put in by the godly men and women who devoted countless years creating the texts that have been made available for our benefit. (From the e-sword Web site Rick Myers)
The Program has the ability to accept user created modules hence a substantial number of user Catholic modules including the Early Teachings of the Church in the first few centuries (a must read), Haydock Commentary, The Great Cornelius Lapide commentary, A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture, St Thomas works in the Catena commentary on Gospels by early church fathers, and his Summa Theologica, The Douay Rheims Catholic Bible plus two other Bible resources, Catechism, 1909 Catholic encyclopedia another must, The 1910 Catholic Dictionary, a Catholic Doctrinal Concordance, How Protestants Study the Bible versus how Catholics study the Bible, and a number of special tools for studying the Bible With Greek and Latin tools for studying the basic Greek Grammer to enhance one’s understanding of definitions etc. This has become a consolidation of free modules for e-Sword base progam, modules scattered across ensips web, and a few other websites on the internet all to make for easier download and finding of Catholic modules and good study tools. Michael Jacques
A Free Greek English-Hebrew English interlinear Bible which is better than the interlinear for e-Sword is available at
scripture4all.org/
We need to put word out to our churches, Bible study coordinators, Religious Educators, students, seminarians, for priests material
here to help with sermons. etc–of what is available here at their fingertips. Those who are studying and making use of this need to consider now or down line for getting involved in Catholic Religious Ed. This is a work in progress so come on back and see whats new.
I have added some Compiled HTM Linked files for those who have trouble navigating the eSword,small Catholic Bible Study, and Church fathers.
For info on how to make eSword compatible with Mac, and Linaux users :
davidcox.com.mx/e-swordmodules/Esword_MAC.htm Linaux made compatible using wine program
winehq.org
"This is dedicated to all the cradle Catholics, like myself, who one day woke up and realized they didn’t know anything about Catholicism. "
Hoping to add some good recent Catholic commentary which would be great editions at a $ Cost.
Michael Jacques
