The SBL Study Bible (using the NRSVue translation) has been available on the market for a little over a month now. Unfortunately, product reviews from early customers mention extremely thin pages and a lot of ghosting. I am unlikely to purchase a hard copy. Here are links to Amazon and Continue Reading
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Now it happened that when the angels had gone from them into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this event which the Lord has made known to us.’ So they went in haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby lying Continue Reading
Merry Christmas!
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; on the inhabitants of a country in shadow dark as death, light has blazed forth. You have enlarged the nation, you have increased its joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at harvest time, as they exult when Continue Reading
Revisiting the RNJB
The Revised New Jerusalem Bible (RNJB) has been a relatively frequent topic on this blog since the complete translation was published in 2019. I purchased the hardcover study edition published by Darton, Longman, and Todd (DLT) and wrote a review here. I also did a weekly series of posts quoting Continue Reading
Review: Cambridge NRSVUE Apocrypha
Released in 2021, the New Revised Standard Edition Updated Edition (NRSVUE) incorporated more than 20,000 changes to the NRSV text. While currently available through only a handful of publishers, most notably Zondervan and Hendrickson, thankfully our friends at Cambridge University Press are beginning to roll out their own editions of Continue Reading
Msgr. Ronald Knox – Translating the Bible (1953)
The Knox Bible is available through our friends at Baronius Press. (You can read a review of their flexible cover edition of the Knox Bible here.)
Food for the Soul Sunday Mass Reflections by Peter Kreeft
Word on Fire has now released the third volume in Peter Kreeft’s Food for the Soul series. These books feature the Sunday Mass readings for every Sunday of the year (along with Holy Days of Obligation), and Peter Kreeft’s reflections on those readings. I reviewed the first volume that was Continue Reading
Pics from My OreMoose Bible Cover
For much of this year I have been reading through the Bible with the Augustine Institute ESVCE. I decided to order a Bible cover from OreMoose. It was a great experience. Communication with OreMoose was very good. I sent along the dimensions of my ESVCE and they created a cover, Continue Reading
Cover Photo and Initial Information for Word on Fire Bible Volume 4
This morning, Word on Fire released the first photo of the cover design for volume 4 of the Word on Fire Bible: This volume will be entitled “The Promised Land” and will include Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, and 1 and 2 Kings. The contents will be similar Continue Reading