The Catholic Study Bible

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 2432 pages
• Published by: Oxford University Press, USA
• Edition: 2nd Edition March 9, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0195282787
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0195282788
• Book Dimensions: 9 x 6.2 x 1.9 inches
• Weighs: 3 pounds

From Library Journal
Several years ago, the New American Bible was issued as the official Roman Catholic text for public reading. Based on the original languages, it included introductions and notes from a Roman Catholic perspective. Edited by ecumenically recognized Roman Catholic scholars, but deliberately reflecting Roman Catholic teaching, the present volume includes the complete text of the New American Bible, along with updated essays on the Bible generally and guides to individual books. Each of these guides gives the historical background to the book as well as a bibliography for further reading; for the longer books, a section-by-section commentary is offered, often including a discussion of its current, and Christian, relevance.
-Augustine J. Curley, Newark Abbey, N.J.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Review

"I highly recommend the revised Catholic Study Bible to my students, colleagues, and friends. With the additional introductory articles, it now provides exceptional coverage of issues of great importance for both academic and pastoral concerns; they bring this wonderful tool for learning to a new standard of completeness and excellence, and in accessible language. Revisions of the Study [Reading] Guides ensure insightful, contemporary discussion of the biblical texts by great scholars and teachers. This is a treasure." --(Rev.) John C. Endres, S.J. Professor of Sacred Scripture, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union


Reader Reviews
This review is from: The Catholic Study Bible: New American Bible (Leather Bound) This was my original review: I am an Orthodox Roman Catholic who has searched and searched for a good study bible that was in-line with the teaching of the church. In this study Bible, I found what I had been looking for for so long! It has over 500 pages of reading guides one every single book that help the reader understand how, when and why each book was written as well as the setting of the time when each book was written. It also comes with the footnotes classic of all New American Bibles as well as colorful maps showing such events as Moses' exodus and Paul's journeys. There are also the readings used in the daily and Sunday masses. This Study Bible shows how the scriptures relate to the teaching in the Catechism of the church. Finally a good Study Bible for us real Catholics!! Now to present day: Since I have gone through this Bible in much more detail, I find it seriously lacking. The footnotes are very misleading, and the commentary is hardly insightful. Part of the inherent problem is the version of the Bible: New American Bible. The New American Bible is somewhat "inclusive", which is not good for language ina Bible. A good Catholic should ask himself, which Bible was used for the Catechism writing? Not the New American Bible (which this Bible is). Nope. It was the Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition. For a much more thorough, insightful and devotional impact, read any of the Navarre commentary on the Bible. Oh yeah, the Navarre uses the Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition! I give this one 1 star. Comments (2) | | (Report this)