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Chronicles: Readable as Froissart Luckily for us Catholics, we do not need to be quite so anxious about the “precise sense of the original” than our separated brethren. I am reminded of a comment a friend made: “I’m done studying the Bible. Now I just want to read it.” After Continue Reading
Someone who isn’t a reader of this blog actually read On Englishing the Bible?! It would be years before our precious little grey Baronius paperback, but F.F. Bruce read On Englishing the Bible, which he called a “valuable little book…in which he brought together eight articles and lectures dealing with Continue Reading
After my recent First Look post on the Lexham English Septuagint (LES), reader Michael Demers wondered how the LES compared to Fr. Nicholas King’s translation of the Septuagint. I have both editions, and I thought it would be very interesting to compare the two for the first reading for the Continue Reading
F.F. Bruce is one of those giants of 20th Century evangelicalism that doesn’t quite make it over the Protestant/Catholic divide. Born in Scotland in 1910 and raised in Plymouth Brethren-style Christianity, he wrote both scholarly and popular works on the New Testament. Many of his books are still in print, Continue Reading
The much-anticipated new editions of the New Revised Standard Version — Catholic Edition (NRSV-CE) from Thomas Nelson’s Catholic Bible Press are now in print! The product page on Thomas Nelson’s website lists the details for all four new editions: the journal edition, gift edition, large-print standard edition, and personal-size standard Continue Reading
Back in mid-January, I posted about the brand new publication of the Lexham English Septuagint, (LES) second edition. As mentioned in that post, Lexham Press is the publishing imprint of Faithlife Corporation, which produces the well-known Logos Bible Software. This English translation of the Septuagint (essentially, the Greek Old Testament, Continue Reading
Thanks to Timothy for alerting me that Thomas Nelson’s new Catholic Bible Press has launched a promotional YouTube channel (here’s a link to it). The channel currently features a video on the brand new NRSV-CE editions which Thomas Nelson will be releasing in March. Very tantalizingly, it also features a Continue Reading
There are multiple new Bibles and study resources scheduled for publication over the next month or two: New NRSV-CE Editions from Harper Collins Currently scheduled for a March 3rd release date, Harper Collins/Thomas Nelson will be releasing four brand-new editions of the NRSV Catholic Edition (with each edition offered in Continue Reading
I’m very late to discover this wonderful news, but In October 2019, Cambridge University Press published a Revised English Bible New Testament in green imitation leather to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the translation’s publication in 1989 (here is a link to the information page on the Cambridge website). This Continue Reading
Pope Francis has set aside the third Sunday of Ordinary Time as the Sunday of the Word of God. This commemoration will happen each year, beginning today! At my local parish, our pastor asked everyone to bring their personal bible to Mass to be blessed today. Did your parish do Continue Reading