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Lexham vs. Nicholas King Septuagint (5th Sunday of Lent)

Posted On March 29, 2020March 29, 2020 By Marc6 Comments

This Sunday, I continue the series I began last week, comparing the Lexham English Septuagint and Fr. Nicholas King’s translation for the first reading at Sunday Mass. Sunday, March 29, 2020 — Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year A)First Reading: Ezekiel 37:12-14 Lexham English Septuagint: “On account of this, prophesy and Continue Reading

F. F. Bruce on the Knox Bible (Part 3) — Guest Post by Bob Short

Posted On March 28, 2020March 28, 2020 By Marc8 Comments

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

F. F. Bruce on the Knox Bible (Part 2) — Guest Post by Bob Short

Posted On March 26, 2020 By Marc2 Comments

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

Lexham vs. Nicholas King Septuagint (4th Sunday of Lent)

Posted On March 22, 2020 By Marc1 Comment

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 on the Knox Bible (Part 1) — Guest Post by Bob Short

Posted On March 19, 2020 By Marc3 Comments

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

First Look: NRSV-CE Personal Edition from Thomas Nelson Catholic Bible Press

Posted On March 12, 2020 By Marc24 Comments

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

First Look: Lexham English Septuagint

Posted On March 7, 2020March 7, 2020 By Marc14 Comments

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

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