Mark Brumley, President of Ignatius Press, has posted a short video on Facebook showing the soon-to-be-published leather Ignatius Catholic Study Bible. The sewn binding is evident in the video. I’m also happy to see that the ghosting of text from subsequent pages looks much better than the photos that Brumley recently posted. Thanks to a reader for alerting me to this new video.
Now I’m happy I ordered the leather over the hardback . It actually looks smaller than other study Bibles I own. I still wish it had a ribbon or 2 but besides that it looks great
I checked the Ignatius site and the hardback is only .1 inches less in thickness. It may just be the camera angle or the measurements aren’t correct on their site:
10 x 7 x 2.9 (Hardback)
10 x 7 x 2.8 (Leather)
https://ignatius.com/ignatius-catholic-study-bible-2h/
Weird, maybe it’s the angle but it looks significantly smaller than the behemoth hardback from a couple of posts ago.
It never really looked all that big, no bigger than the ESV Study Bible, The Oxford Bible Commentary or any of the Jerome Bible Commentaries (of which there are now 3), it seems to be the appropriate size for a Study Bible, how big did you expect it to be?
Please, enough with the belittling “How big did you expect it to be?” trope.
No one who finds this disappointing is being unreasonable – or ignorant – in saying so.
What did I expect?
Catholic Study Bible-sized.
New Oxford Annotated-sized.
Not (practically) pulpit-lectionary sized.
Okay, so what would you do differently? Would you decrease the font size, cut stuff out, make it multi-volume?
Yup. Doesn’t look all that huge to me. Looking forward to receiving the hardcover edition.
There is now a video of Scott Hahn unboxing the full ICSB: https://youtu.be/tPZmLRO0DXA
Yeah, it was definitely a trick of the light. That sucker is still enormous.
Thomas,
Thank you for posting this link. Scott mentioned he received his box of bibles from India, which I’m taking as an indication of where they are printed.
Likely. I personally don’t mind India or Korea as printing countries, compared to the PRC.
Evan,
Same with me. I’ve liked the bibles I have that were printed in S Korea. The one or two I have from India are a step down in quality but still acceptable. I have an aversion to all things made in the PRC for a whole list of reasons. The one bible I had that was printed there I gave away. The New Catholic Bible by Catholic Book Publishing is printed in the PRC which has kept me from getting a copy.
On one hand, I understand a publishers desire to offer inexpensive bibles so that young people and those with lower/fixed incomes can easily afford them. On the other hand, feeding the giant anti-Christian monster is analogous to giving money to Lucifer.
I noticed yesterday that my copy of the text-only RSV-2CE Bible (the one with the red Four Evangelists cover) was printed in the USA. I guess Ignatius must’ve outsourced production at some point in the last 13 years (not complaining, just interesting).
Are there any plans to release the remaining Old Testament books in booklet form? I plan on getting the full size copy, but the booklets have just been so handy to carry around when studying a particular book.
And they also have study questions, which were uploaded on the website but will be absent from the complete Bible. I hope they will finish those.
They’re so close! I hope to have the complete set at some point
Here’s from Ignatius Press, when asked whether a standalone OT edition would be published:
“Thank you for your feedback. The most demand was for a COMPLETE study Bible in one volume. It is a very expensive endeavor, so this is what we decided to provide at this time. In the future, we will be finishing the rest of the Old Testament in the paperback single volumes and releasing those.”