Orthodox Canon Bibles, please help.

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Hi

coming in here I felt odd as the rest of the threads are very emotionally charged, and this topic is meant as light hearted.

I am Catholic but believe in the Apostolic Orthodox Thrones of, Jude and Bartholomew, Andrew, Thomas, Phillip, James the Just, Mark, Barnabas. to me, your saints, are saints, and your Canon is the work of the Holy Spirit in a neighbouring land.

I would like some offers or advice on purchasing different canon Orthodox bibles (in English) please. and a nice chat about Canon would be cool too :cool:

God Bless

Dava
 
Right now you have two choices, there is a fairly easy to get version of the NRSV which contains all the books which the Orthodox consider canonical. However if you’re like me and find the layout (with books broken down into “sections” of who accepts them rather than all just together) then the Orthodox Study Bible is your other solution at this time. This one is harder to get, basically you’d have to order it online or go to an Orthodox Church to buy it. I’ve never seen it in a non-Orthodox bookstore.
 
The NRSV Oxford Study Bible Expanded Edition with Duetercanicals/Apocrypha was at one time published as “The Common Bible” in the '70’s. It has the Protestant 66 books…the additional books Catholics use…and the further additional books Orthodox use. You can usually purchase it at any bookstore in their Bible section…Barnes & Nobel, B.Dalton, Borders etc.

The Orthodox Study Bible is available at some Christian bookstores…when it first came out many years ago it was only the New Testament…I bought it at a Christian bookstore…you should call around…they might surprise you. Some Christian bookstores are very ecumenical in offering different Bibles to the Christian community be they Protestant, Orthodox or Catholic.
 
Nine_Two said:
Right now you have two choices, there is a fairly easy to get version of the NRSV which contains all the books which the Orthodox consider canonical. However if you’re like me and find the layout (with books broken down into “sections” of who accepts them rather than all just together) then the Orthodox Study Bible is your other solution at this time. This one is harder to get, basically you’d have to order it online or go to an Orthodox Church to buy it. I’ve never seen it in a non-Orthodox bookstore.
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I saw one in a barnes and noble bookstore.
 
Seems I was wrong, on a subject I’m only too glad to be wrong on. 🙂

I guess it doesn’t help that I live in a city where most of the Christians seem to be evangelical protestants.😛

The OP might also be interested to know there is currently an effort to create another translation of the Orthodox canon, I’m not sure when it is coming out though.
 
thank you for your replies 🙂

i will be sure to check them out 👍

I did find this

amazon.co.uk/Universal-Protestant-Catholic-Orthodox-Samaritan/dp/1933580933/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272727282&sr=1-4

but wasn’t sure of the books Apostolic Orthodox approval. I was really hoping to have a collection, from every Orthodox Church, but the Ethiopian Canon may be too hard to find in English. I am glad to hear the others may not be as hard to find as I had imagined 👍 thank you!

can I ask about the book of Baruch? the phrasing is different to the Holy Spirits usual style. but I think? i still feel some of His tone there 🙂 what was the major reason for the books approval?

(curiosity and to chat, not an attack on the books approval 😉 )

God Bless

David
 
The Orthodox Church doesn’t really approve translations of the bible, although in at least one case (the OCA regarding the NRSV) an edition of the bible has been banned from liturgical use.
 
Nine_Two said:
The Orthodox Church doesn’t really approve translations of the bible, although in at least one case (the OCA regarding the NRSV) an edition of the bible has been banned from liturgical use.
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The OCA banned the NSRV from liturgical use? I think that’s awesome. It’s horrible.
 
TriuneUnity said:
The OCA banned the NSRV from liturgical use? I think that’s awesome. It’s horrible.
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Yep, I don’t have an actual reference to the decision but from this page:

“The Orthodox Church in America, to my knowledge, is the only jurisdiction in this country that has issued a formal statement forbidding use of the New Revised Standard Version in liturgical services.”

Oddly enough while trying to find this reference on the website, I came across a document that quotes a passage using the NRSV translation. Although not liturgical use, still an oddity. 🙂
 
Nine_Two said:
Yep, I don’t have an actual reference to the decision but from this page:

“The Orthodox Church in America, to my knowledge, is the only jurisdiction in this country that has issued a formal statement forbidding use of the New Revised Standard Version in liturgical services.”

Oddly enough while trying to find this reference on the website, I came across a document that quotes a passage using the NRSV translation. Although not liturgical use, still an oddity. 🙂
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about the new Orthodox Bible translation, any idea what kind of English it will have? i.e. might it be comporable to an NKJV, an NIV, an RSV, or to something else?

God bless you.
 
TriuneUnity said:
Have they already released the Psalter? The web site says March/April 2009.
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I think they have just recently, a new psalter came out based on the LXX at any rate. I’m pretty sure that site hasn’t had much updating in the last while, but it did have the requested information so I thought I’d link to it anyway.
 
dava4444 said:
can I ask about the book of Baruch? the phrasing is different to the Holy Spirits usual style. but I think? i still feel some of His tone there 🙂 what was the major reason for the books approval?

(curiosity and to chat, not an attack on the books approval 😉 )

God Bless

David
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sorry, I meant Ezra Sutuel, not Baruch. I am in a lot of pain because of Satan, I find it hard to concentrate, sorry.

peace

David
 
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