Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: New Testament

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Because the Church is one, holy, catholic, and apostolic, Bibles should not simply reflect the thoughts of a single person or even that of particular sects. While these differences result in nothing like the range of options found in Protestantism, they can be important nonetheless. The New Jerusalem Bible is an interesting – if not completely trustworthy – translation, with notes which sometimes reflect equally untrustworthy, modern critical views. It uses “King James English” (“thees” and “thous”) when addressing God, but otherwise personal pronouns are translated into modern English. The Ignatius Study Bible is a triumph of both piety and scholarship, in the best Catholic tradition: simply the most useful succinct commentary that any Christian or other interested person could hope for.The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible is one such effort, geared toward the educated but not scholarly lay Catholic. Frequent references is made to Fathers and Doctors of the Church, but I think (I might have missed something) that the most recent citation that is not from the CCC or a papal decree is from St.

The translation is most notably criticized for its avoidance of gender-indicative terminology whenever possible, including references to God. This Bible, beyond all its teaching features, is the complete text of the Revised Standard Version – Second Catholic Edition.This is due primarily to the scriptural translations and tools, which sometimes reflect the bias of the editors. I pushed through a little to try and make it happen every month as I have for a long time followed the daily mass readings but find it insufficient to gain the familiarity and mastery of God's word that I have been looking to develop. notes), and is segregated from the two-column footnotes by either a single thin horizontal line, or by double lines framing a list of sparse cross-references.