Ronald knox bible now available online

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Does anyone have a Ronald Knox translation of the Bible? What do you think of it? They have a copy in a seminary library on the other side of my town, but I’d like to get a copy of my own at some point.

I’ve not bothered looking for it online, as I can’t afford to buy one right now. I think it’s out of print, but it seems like a prime candidate for an Ignatius reprint.

I just wanted anyone’s take on it.
 
I have the New Testament by Ronald Knox, paperback. Very nicely bound: white cover with an image of a first century manuscript and gold foil stamped.

The only thing I dislike is the typesetting, which was certainly well done but in a small type (probably 6Pt), two columns. It seems kind of cramped to me, the footnotes are even smaller! If you are young with good eyes it should be fine.

I certainly like it as a translation but I am no scripture scholar, so I cannot comment on it in regard to it’s accuracy. I have found nothing I dislike about how it is written.

Ronald Knox was a master scholar, it shows in everything he wrote.

My copy was republished by Templegate Publishers in 1997

ISBN 0-87243-229-7
 
As far as I am aware, ‘Scepter’ publications is the Opus Dei publications company. 🙂
 
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As far as I am aware, ‘Scepter’ publications is the Opus Dei publications company. 🙂
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They have a couple, but yes I think you are right. Scepter is probably the big one.

After I posted that I looked on the Templegate website and realized that they probably aren’t part of Opus Dei so I edited my post without realizing you were responding.

Anyone coming in late to the discussion wouldn’t realize that I had thought Templegate was owned by Opus Dei and posted that originally.

Mea Culpa, mea maxima culpa
 
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I have the New Testament by Ronald Knox, paperback. Very nicely bound: white cover with an image of a first century manuscript and gold foil stamped.

The only thing I dislike is the typesetting, which was certainly well done but in a small type (probably 6Pt), two columns. It seems kind of cramped to me, the footnotes are even smaller! If you are young with good eyes it should be fine.

I certainly like it as a translation but I am no scripture scholar, so I cannot comment on it in regard to it’s accuracy. I have found nothing I dislike about how it is written.

Ronald Knox was a master scholar, it shows in everything he wrote.

My copy was republished by Templegate Publishers in 1997

ISBN 0-87243-229-7
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I have the New Testament which is published by SHEED&WARD New York 1950 The translation of the NT was undertaken at the request of the Hierarchy of England and Wales, in 1939.
It is a hard back in good condition. I bought it at the Smith College Book Fare for $2.00. I haven’t read it much, but now maybe I’ll read it again.
 
I have it. It is the most readable English edition, I know. I also believe Karl Keating is a big fan.

Chris C.
 
I have the Ronald Knox study bible, OT and NT.
He is very thourough in his footnotes indicating where he changed the text on a poetic license basis/interpretation basis, and why.
There are translation techniques that are uncommon in other bibles which he uses.
For example, in Hebrew prose -in the psalms- where they go through the alphabet, he chooses to pick words in English which follow the English alphabet. It affects the translation a little, but the result is to reveal some aspects of the original text which are not immediately apparent otherwise.
In general, I don’t find the same level of bare honest explanations for the reason a particular translation was chosen in any other bible I have read, and overall his translation is quite good. I havent found any blatantly wrong translation in my comparisons with the original Greek so far (including Septuagint OT), although I havent checked more than a fraction of the Bible so far.
I really like it. The translation is very consistent, and well though out with LOTS of helpful footnotes and cross references. (IMHO)
 
Thanks for the link and bringing this to our attention.

I believe I may have one of these Bibles. I found it at Goodwill and kept it due to the unusual way the paragraphs were put together.

Until now, I had no idea that it was a Catholic edition.
The Holy Bible: A Translation From the Latin Vulgate in the Light of the Hebrew and Greek Originals is a Catholic version of the Bible in three volumes (later published in one volume editions) translated by Monsignor Ronald Knox, the English theologian, priest, and crime writer. It is more commonly known as the Knox Version. [1]
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In 1936, Ronald Knox was requested by the Catholic hierarchies of England and Wales to undertake a new translation of the Vulgate with use of contemporary language and in light of Hebrew and Greek manuscripts. When the New Testament was published in 1945, it was not intended to replace the Rheims version but to be used alongside it, as Bernard Griffin, the Archbishop of Westminster noted in the preface.
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I have a New testament in English by Msgr. R.A. Knox. The title is The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ A New Translation.

It is published by Sheed and Ward New York 1947. I got it for fifty cents at the thrift store. It is a seventh printing.

I haven’t read much yet but plan to. Would be interested in comparing notes, etc.

God Bless.
 
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I have it. It is the most readable English edition, I know. I also believe Karl Keating is a big fan.

Chris C.
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As was Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen – he uses it in his Life of Christ.
 
I wonder if anyone ever asked Fulton Sheen what he thought of Knox’s translation of Isaiah 7:14?

Any translation that doesn’t say “A virgin will conceive” in Isaiah 7:14 isn’t worth reading!
 
Forgive my last post–I’m sure archbishop Sheen wouldn’t have been crazy about that particular verse–and even though I loathe it–some of the rest of the Knox translation is good.

Just wanted to calm down the Let’s love the Knox translation party–the Knox translation is better than the Jerusalem Bible, the New Jerusalem Bible, the NAB, and the RSV in any of its iterations in my opinion.
 
I have a copy published by Sheed & Ward Inc. 1956, it also says copyright 1944,1948,1950. Imprimatur Bernardus Card. Griffin, who also does the preface in the copy I have. I believe I picked this copy up at my library, I get a lot of Bibles this way.🙂
 
I am considering the purchasing of the complete Knox translation when it becomes available, hopefully soon. As for other conversation above, I haven’t heard of a translation yet which has not been criticized. However, to be fair, the Knox translation has plenty of critics.
 
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