What’s wrong with the Jerome commentary? Brown, Fitzmeyer are pretty big names. I own a copy of Brown’s Introduction to the New Testament and he doesn’t seem that liberal. There’s a section there repudiating the Jesus Seminar in fact.
Liberal is really not the best way to refer to some of the footnotes of Study Bibles and commentaries that I mentioned, such as the footnotes for the NAB. I think the best way to put it is they are not traditionally Catholic. The NAB is not liberal in the sense of being pro-abortion, pro-gay, pro-contraceptive, etc etc. An example of a good traditional commentary or Study Bible is one that you see a lot of quotes from the Church Fathers and the saints throughout the last 2000 years.
I was thinking of liberal as in questioning authorship, Jesus’ miracles, etc. Brown and Fitzmeyer were both Catholic priests, no?
I agree completely; I have all three, although I only generally use one at a time depending on my mood.
That’s great! Unfortunatley a lot of people don’t know who most of the commentators are that Haydock got his quotes from, mainly because the commentaries from such as John Stephen Menochius, St. Jacobus Tirinus, Augustin Calmet, Francisco Ribera, Willem Estius, etc have not been translated into English. The Haydock provides his selected quotes from those greats from the 1500-1600’s.
I have the Navarre and it cost me nearly $160.00 a decade ago.
While the Haydock may provide us with his ‘selections’ from the best of Biblical scholarship in the 16th and 17th centuries, the field itself has moved on a little since then! This is in no small part due to such brilliant Catholic Biblical scholars as Joseph Fitzmeyer, Raymond Brown and Daniel Harrington (all of them, I think, Jesuits).
Correct Biblical interpretation never goes out of date, that is why it is so important to never abandon the great commentators from the past. There is usually not much to add to the first 1900 years of understanding, just some extra development due to application to our day and time, and later archaeological discoveries. Sometimes what we call ‘scholarly and intellectual’ is a code name for liberal and unorthodox.While the Haydock may provide us with his ‘selections’ from the best of Biblical scholarship in the 16th and 17th centuries, the field itself has moved on a little since then! This is in no small part due to such brilliant Catholic Biblical scholars as Joseph Fitzmeyer, Raymond Brown and Daniel Harrington (all of them, I think, Jesuits).
If you’re interested in up-to-date Catholic Biblical scholarship, then you could try either:
D Senior and J Collins (eds), The Catholic Study Bible, 2nd Ed.
The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible RSV-CE, 2nd Ed.
The former is more overtly scholarly and intellectual, and it’s approach alienates some traditional Catholics. The latter is a more ‘safe pair of hands’. Both are good. If the latter were published with a sewn binding, I’d buy it tomorrow.
Peace be with you all.
Couldn’t agree with you more, ESMDHokie! This is the version my Mariology professor this Fall term recommended, so I went out and got one and I’m thrilled with the notes, the font, even the cool cover. A+!
Glad to share the info, Sierra. I hope you love it as much as I do; it’s become, well, my Bible!Thank you so much ESDMHokie77 and FaithDancer as well as everyone else on this thread. ;D I’ve chosen the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible New Testament RSV 2nd Catholic Ed. RSV.
Merry Christmas and God Bless you all! ;D