The Didache Bible

[Pilgram2000]

It may be that the Didache Bible is so thick that they thought that was the best way to do it. Anyway, it’s fairly portable. I do have one gripe with many Bible publishers. Why do most put just one ribbon in their Bibles? I would really like at least two, one for the OT and one for the NT.

 

[rsf3612]

the ONE thing about the Didache Study Bible I do NOT like is the fact that the print is way too close to the binding. I ordered mine online so wasn’t able to see this before purchase. I decided to keep it as a reference tool, but it will NOT be my full-time Bible for this reason.

 

[2PT3]

I have purchased both the NABRE and RSV-CE editions of the Didache Bible. I gave the RSV-CE edition to my daughter and her fiancé. These are fantastic - the best Bibles I have ever owned. Can’t recommend them highly enough. Everyone should have one of these.

 

[2PT3]

I think every Catholic who can afford it should have several Bibles, each for it’s own time and purpose. I have about a dozen different Bibles, of various versions: NAB, NABRE, RSV, RSV-2CE, Douay-Rheims. The Didache Bible (NABRE) has been a great addition to my collection. It is now my primary “study” Bible (i.e., the one I mark up, highlight, and make notes in).

 

[sirach2v4]

Not everyone is a fan of the RSV-2CE.

The Second Catholic Edition is an Ignatius Press proprietary modification to the RSV-CE. They never told anyone the names of those on the team making the changes or what their philosophy for changing anything was. The choice of what they changed seems arbitrary.

They also did not incorporate the most recent archeological findings and advances from the Dead Sea Scrolls. Say what you want about the NABRE but at least they used the latest scholarship whereas the RSV-2CE does not.

I’m sure the Didache Bible has some good content apart from the sacred text but the sacred text itself leaves much to be desired. The arbitrary changes and Ignatius’ bundling of all the extras including commentary from popular apologists make it seem like more of a marketing effort than anything else. I say this as someone who has read the RSV-CE cover to cover five times and owns the Ignatius RSV-2CE study New Testament.

The RSV-2CE is not the gold-standard in Catholic Bibles that everyone thinks it is. That is my personal opinion.

-Tim-

I agree, based on much less investigation. I think I tipped towards it, away from earlier versions of the NAB. As attractive as the Didache Bible sounds, I think I will sit on the sidelines. Someplace, I picked up the douay-Rheims for my Kindle, and it has very good navigation built into it, although it is far short in not having Bible cross references or links to Vatican Ii documents or church fathers, etc. I’m too old and sick to invest in the Verbum Series of resources.

 

[sirach2v4]

I’d love to get one of those loose-leaf Bibles and missed an opportunity to get the one below for $30.

books.google.com/books/about/The_New_Oxford_Annotated_Bible_Loose_Lea.html?id=GyNiyGluEqEC

http://books.google.com/books/conte...4PBUyU-UHiGStFogCYoOu24eOcNCe7eibEvCY00zjyvGz

-Tim-

I was browsing on the first link and on that page there was an advertisement for the Scofield Bible. Every Catholic Bible student should know that the Scofield is the Protestant Fundamentalist’s Bible; it is page after page of error. buyer Beware.

 

[2PT3]

It has the same bonded leather over boards as the RSV-2E version, just a different color.

And much thicker because it has both the original NABRE introductions and notes and the new ones. It is interesting to see the contrast between the two sets of notes.

 

[Beeline]

Is the Didache bible, with its study pages and notes and bible vocabulary, high school level or college level.

The NAB Study Bible/NABRE is college level.

 

[slMike]

I received an email today, that the Didache Bible is now availiable. I ordered immediately. This is what I have been waiting for. I hope it doesn’t disappoint.

I just ordered the leather version today. After reading some sample texts I had to buy it.
It is actually something I hoped would come out eventually. The quality looks good…we’ll
see in a few days.