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**You wrote to Swampboy: ***Also, how about the Orthodox Study Bible? If you are attached to the phraseology of the King James tradition, it is a good choice-It has the deuterocanon, and it used the N.K.J.V. in the N.T. and the O.T. amended the N.K.J.V. to conform to the Septuagint renderings. With their study notes, you only have to ignore Matthew 16:18, Catholics & Orthodox can pretty much agree on everything else in the commentary. *
The Orthodox Study Bible is quite different from other study or otherwise annotated Bibles, and in the most marvellous faith-affirming ways, integrating Catholic-Orthodox tradition into the study of Holy Writ. The textual base of the translation is a welcome choice, too, the Seputagint (LXX) Greek Old Testament (O.T.) and Byzantine Greek New Testament (N.T.), the latter so free of the serious flaws of the textual basis of Protestant and more or less recent Roman Catholic translations based too uncritically upon the late Hebrew Masoretic O.T. and the vilely corrupt “Critical Texts” (U.S.B., Nestle-Aland, and worse) of the Greek N.T. The N.T. of the New King James Version (N.K.J.V.) is based on the Byzantine Text, so is refreshingly free of the faults of so many other late 19th and 20th century translations from Greek.
One should beware, of course, of the notes attached to Protestant and especially sectarian or liberal study Bibles. They can be helpful to a point, and more often than not are quite pertinent, but a well versed Catholic Christian knows the kinds of errors that are bound to appear in notes of such provenance. The post-R.S.V. translations that Protestants so love, e.g. the far-too-widely used New International Version (N.I.V.), are rife with paraphrase that only abets their Reformed and sectarian bias. (As for the R.S.V., it is far more literal a translation, but suffers from a corrupt textual basis and from devious modernist bias in translation.) Use the best translations, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant alike, wisely and with prudence.
Happy reading and stuying!
Jerry Parker
**You wrote to Swampboy: ***Also, how about the Orthodox Study Bible? If you are attached to the phraseology of the King James tradition, it is a good choice-It has the deuterocanon, and it used the N.K.J.V. in the N.T. and the O.T. amended the N.K.J.V. to conform to the Septuagint renderings. With their study notes, you only have to ignore Matthew 16:18, Catholics & Orthodox can pretty much agree on everything else in the commentary. *
The Orthodox Study Bible is quite different from other study or otherwise annotated Bibles, and in the most marvellous faith-affirming ways, integrating Catholic-Orthodox tradition into the study of Holy Writ. The textual base of the translation is a welcome choice, too, the Seputagint (LXX) Greek Old Testament (O.T.) and Byzantine Greek New Testament (N.T.), the latter so free of the serious flaws of the textual basis of Protestant and more or less recent Roman Catholic translations based too uncritically upon the late Hebrew Masoretic O.T. and the vilely corrupt “Critical Texts” (U.S.B., Nestle-Aland, and worse) of the Greek N.T. The N.T. of the New King James Version (N.K.J.V.) is based on the Byzantine Text, so is refreshingly free of the faults of so many other late 19th and 20th century translations from Greek.
One should beware, of course, of the notes attached to Protestant and especially sectarian or liberal study Bibles. They can be helpful to a point, and more often than not are quite pertinent, but a well versed Catholic Christian knows the kinds of errors that are bound to appear in notes of such provenance. The post-R.S.V. translations that Protestants so love, e.g. the far-too-widely used New International Version (N.I.V.), are rife with paraphrase that only abets their Reformed and sectarian bias. (As for the R.S.V., it is far more literal a translation, but suffers from a corrupt textual basis and from devious modernist bias in translation.) Use the best translations, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant alike, wisely and with prudence.
Happy reading and stuying!
Jerry Parker