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I’ve been trying to read more scripture but I admit I am overwhelmed by the size of my Catholic Study Bible. The print is okay but the pages are so thin, and there is so much annotation. My other King James bibles are much too densely printed. I used to have a little paper copy of Matthew that some group was passing out and it was nice to have it all separate and so easy to read like that.

I wish I could get separate volumes of everything, maybe one for the pentateuch, then one for the rest of the OT, then a separate NT, maybe broken down into shorter volumes with nice readable text, and little annotation. There’s a point where I end up reading more of the background that the thing itself. I read all through the Bible before except for Revelation but it’s time to do again.

Does anyone publish anything like this?
 
I had the same problem as you, so I desised to get an Ignatius Bible, which is the Revised Standard Version-Catholic Edition. It is a beautiful translation, and it contains just the text with footnotes but without commentary. It is also the Bible of choice for most serious catholic Bible readers today. I use it for devotional reading and my NAB Study Bible for Bible studies. It never hurts to have a couple of different Catholic translations around to get a better meaning of a particular text.

Catholic Answers offers this Bible on their main website.

shop.catholic.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/online-store/scstore/p-B0181.html?E+scstore

Also, here is a helpful article:

Bible Translations Guide
catholic.com/library/Bible_Translations_Guide.asp
 
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caroljm36:
I’ve been trying to read more scripture but I admit I am overwhelmed by the size of my Catholic Study Bible. The print is okay but the pages are so thin, and there is so much annotation. My other King James bibles are much too densely printed. I used to have a little paper copy of Matthew that some group was passing out and it was nice to have it all separate and so easy to read like that.

I wish I could get separate volumes of everything, maybe one for the pentateuch, then one for the rest of the OT, then a separate NT, maybe broken down into shorter volumes with nice readable text, and little annotation. There’s a point where I end up reading more of the background that the thing itself. I read all through the Bible before except for Revelation but it’s time to do again.

Does anyone publish anything like this?
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Try the Douay Rheims Bible. It’s worth a shot see here to buy one[look at the Haydock ediiton] www.angeluspress.org/sacred_scripture.htm

Also Catholics should call the last book of the Holy Bible “the Apocalypse of St.John” instead of the protestant name “revelation”.
 
Why not use Apocalypse; after all, it means the same thing. That way, some will confuse the term with football players of a by-gone erra.
 
I found what I was looking for–it’s the Navarre Bible series with everything broken out into volumes in the Revised Standard version. I wish I could see a volume to check it for type size and spacing.

Anyone ever check these out?
 
Yes they are excellent. I have every volume out so far and find them indispensible for preparing Bible studies. The print is quite large, the paper is of standard thickness, and there is plenty of room to write in the margins if you so desire. They are available at most decent Catholic bookstores.
 
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caroljm36:
I found what I was looking for–it’s the Navarre Bible series with everything broken out into volumes in the Revised Standard version. I wish I could see a volume to check it for type size and spacing.

Anyone ever check these out?
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Looks like they just came out with a compact Navarre NT. See getfed.com/product_detail.cfm?ID=3309 and it’s at a pretty good price too $35.96.
 
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Fidelis:
I had the same problem as you, so I desised to get an Ignatius Bible, which is the Revised Standard Version-Catholic Edition. It is a beautiful translation, and it contains just the text with footnotes but without commentary. It is also the Bible of choice for most serious catholic Bible readers today. I use it for devotional reading and my NAB Study Bible for Bible studies. It never hurts to have a couple of different Catholic translations around to get a better meaning of a particular text.
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I have the RSV-CE as well but it is from Scepter. Is there any difference between Scepter and Ignatius?

God Bless…
 
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Fidelis:
Also, here is a helpful article:

Bible Translations Guide
catholic.com/library/Bible_Translations_Guide.asp
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I happen to be a counselor for the various religious emblems that can be earned by Catholic Boy Scouts… as such, I like to make use of multiple translations (since some “make the point” better than others). Most everyone in the groups I’ve counseled over the last 5 years had either a NAB or a RSV-CE (with one or two Jerusalem Bibles thrown in), so when I saw a Douay-Rhiems at my local used book store, I bought it. (True to stereotypical form, this Bible was still in its original box, uninscribed, and without any bookmarked pages or hand-written notes in the margins… in other words, it was practically unopened… clearly a Catholic Bible! 😉 I forgot to listen for whether or not the spine cracked when I did open it… kinda made me wonder how it ended up in a “used” book store! 😃

I know that some of the books of the Bible have been known by more than one name (e.g. Sirach is also known as Ecclesiasticus, 1 and 2 Chronicles as 1 and 2 Paralipomenon, Ezra and Nehemiah as 1 and 2 Esdras, etc.), and of course I also know that the authors of the sacred texts weren’t the ones to add the verse numberings as we know them today.

But, I was surprised to find that whole entire psalms are numbered differently in the DRV and the NAB! In particular, Ps. 25 in my NAB showed up as Ps. 24 in my DRV (the two translations got “out of sync” around Ps. 9-10, and seemed to alternate between “out of sync” and “in sync” the rest of the time).

Are there any other “chapter discrepancies” between the DRV and other translations that it would be helpful to know about?
 
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katolik:
Try the Douay Rheims Bible. It’s worth a shot see here to buy one[look at the Haydock ediiton] www.angeluspress.org/sacred_scripture.htm

Also Catholics should call the last book of the Holy Bible “the Apocalypse of St.John” instead of the protestant name “revelation”.
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Thank you for this suggestion and the link to angeluspress. I like a more traditional Bible rather than the modern language. Somehow it loses a lot in translation. I’ve been using a Catholic study Bible and it’s OK and better than some of the translations people suggested in my former life as a Protestant.

BTW when did the title of the Apocalypse of St John get changed to Revelation?

Lisa N
 
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matthew1624:
I have the RSV-CE as well but it is from Scepter. Is there any difference between Scepter and Ignatius?

God Bless…
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I have 'em both, but I haven’t noticed any difference except that, aesthetically, my Sceptor copy is much nicer (gilded, bonded leather, etc). The print is a liitle clearer too.
 
The Navarre Wisdom Book arrived today. The print is nice and readable, and the paper quality is good, but there is more commentary than Scripture!

Does anyone make a Bible with no commentary, no footnotes, and no pronunciation guides? This stuff is all very distracting to me.
 
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