Ignatius Press recently posted a few interior pictures of the upcoming Ignatius Catholic Study Bible on their Facebook page showing the page layout and samples of the notes and informational boxes that will be printed.
The first photo shows a page from the book of the prophet Habakkuk. The footnotes are referenced with a superscript letter in the biblical text, and each footnote begins with the chapter and verse printed in bold. I’m glad to see this. It makes it easy to find the verse that each note is referring to, rather than scanning the page for a tiny letter or symbol. There is also a word study information box printed inside the footnote section of the page. According to the Ignatius Press website, there are more than 140 of these word study boxes throughout the bible.
The next photo comes from Leviticus and shows an information table below the footnote section detailing the requirements and purpose of five types of sacrifices that are described in Leviticus.
The final image shows a page from Proverbs and shows an information box on “Wisdom Literature in the Bible.”
All of these photos show noticeable ghosting of text from the back of the page and subsequent pages. It looks like the biblical text is line-matched in all three images, but this is less helpful in areas where the footnotes cover more or less of the page on subsequent pages. In that case, the smaller font size of the notes leads to parts of the page where lines are not matched.
It will be interesting to see how the ghosting looks in person. In my experience, photos do not always do justice to the reading experience, especially in varying types of light.
I like that it’s on Bible paper and not the near card-stock they used in the stand-alone NT volume! I’ll take ghosting over that any day. 🙂
I also like that the information box appear inline. That’s the sort of content the Catholic Study Bible from Oxford tends to handle in a separate section of cross-referenced essays elsewhere in the book. That makes for much more page-flipping as you hunt down the reference from the page you’re reading. I like Ignatius’ inline approach much better.
Every time I open my Ignatius Study New Testament, I recall happy memories of cutting construction paper in elementary school.
The photos make the paper look yellow. If this is the same paper as the Didache is should be bright white. Perhaps the light source is yellow.
Anyone know where this bible is printed ??
It appears to be Ignatius’s standard Bible paper, same color and everything.
This looks good, and I look forward to getting my copy. Is this the same paper that’s used in their text-only Ignatius Bible? That Bible’s paper is very readable without too much ghosting. This study Bible will have more blank spaces due to the essays and such, so ghosting will be more noticeable, but it should still be a good read if it’s that same paper.
Amazon has changed their shipping date from November 15 to December 9. It’s humorous that even after a few decades of waiting, there’s more delays.
That’s just Amazon being Amazon. The ACW translation for St. Jerome’s Commentary on Daniel supposedly “came out” in late July, and yet Amazon is currently telling me not to expect my copy until mid-October. Thankfully, I’m not in any rush.
Random aside: One thing about the RSV-2CE that’s always annoyed me is that, because they just inherited the cross references from the original RSV, they never have references from the New Testament or the rest of the Old Testament to the deuterocanonical Old Testament. This Study Bible rectifies that a bit by sometimes putting them in the study notes, but I wish they could’ve added them directly to the cross references section. In this category, I think the original Jerusalem Bible is still undefeated.
I love the cream colored paper, that’s one thing I always appreciated about Ignatius’ Bible, but what is that yellowness in the gutter? Is that an actual highlighting added to the gutter?
For me I want a Bible that is lucid and robust, is the RSV2CE as a translation up for that? Otherwise the RNJB seems the most fitting given it’s wide adoption for liturgical use and is more up to date than both the NABRE and NRSVCE, let along the elder RSVCE(2CE)
Crack open a few different books around your house under different light sources. An apparent “beam” of color down the gutter is extremely common in books and just has to do with the way the light reflects off pages.
In different news, a new book is coming out by Orthodox Biblical Scholar Fr Stephen de Young entitled “Paul the Pharisee: Jewish Apostle to all the Nations”.
It will have a focus of St. Paul relationship to the Torah and of particular note to the blog’s readers, it will contain a new translation of all of St. Paul’s epistles (including Hebrews).
Below is the link to the book’s introduction.
https://issuu.com/ancientfaith/docs/st_paul_the_pharisee_sample_pages/s/55723288