I completely missed this, but along with the Ignatius RSV-2CE Journaling Bible, there is also a new journaling edition of the RSV-2CE from Catholic Bible Press. I have the Ignatius Press arriving in the next few days. Once it arrives, I will share some images of it and see how it compares to the CBP edition.
From Publisher:
This beautifully crafted RSV2CE Bible, Journal Edition is expertly designed for anyone who wants a deeper connection with Scripture. The extra-wide margins make sure you have ample room for journaling, note taking, drawing, copying verses, or any other method of engaging God’s Word.
Features include:
- Wide margins with dot matrix for convenient and easy journaling
- Thick, opaque Bible paper ideal for note taking
- Book introductions to provide helpful context to the Scriptures
- 2 satin ribbon markers
- Clear and readable 8-point Comfort Print®
- Complete Catholic Bible with the imprimatur of the Roman Catholic Church
Interesting that CBP is going with an RSV2CE when they have their own house translation.
8pt sounded small to me at first, but looks like they went with a fairly legible font.
It will be interesting to compare this to the Ignatius one, which is also single-column but it is advertised as an 8.5 font.
That’s Catholic Book Publishing, this is Catholic Bible Press, an imprint of HarperCollins.
It’s a shame that, the new TAN D-R being an exception, the only time you can get a single column Catholic bible is as a journaling type with huge margins.
For sure. I can only think of the various Jerusalem Bibles, the Knox (Baronius), and that hybrid single-column NRSV-CE that was HarperOne published almost twenty years ago.
As an aside, WOF is taking preorders for Vol VI of the WOF Bible : The Wisdom Books. No word of they are still using the NRSV translation that is expiring
My two biggest concerns with the WOF Bible are them switching to the NRSVue for either of the two remaining volumes or them immediately moving to reissue the whole thing again in the NRSVue after finishing it. The issue wouldn’t be with the NRSVue itself per se, but more about the WOF Bible either being inconsistent or there being a whole double-dipping situation. Kinda like how they’re reissuing all their WOF Classics hardbacks with dust jackets now.
I’m fairly sure that a dispensation was given to Word on Fire to continue to use the NRSV-CE for all seven volumes. Whether they have to change to the NRSVUE-CE for any future reprint of the series is unclear. The new Wisdom literature volume is showing as “sold out” on the the WoF website.
Both the Wisdom and Prophets volumes (VI and VII respectively) of the WoF Bible are shown as “coming soon” on the WoF website. They are listed as “sold out” but this may just indicate that they’re not yet available to purchase. You can register to be notified when they are available.
The only way you can secure one now is as a gift for pledging a larger donation to the WO
F Bible project
Interesting that they list book introductions among the features. Most of the books in the RSV-2CE base text lack any kind of introduction (a few books have short book intros in the footnotes), so I assume they’ll have someone write new ones. I wonder who will write them, and how good they’ll be. For the Old Testament, I hope the intros won’t be the all-too-common “The prophet didn’t actually write this, someone else did 200 years later” stuff that you find in so many Bibles. Maybe they could just do abridged versions of the intros from the Ignatius Study Bible. They’re already using Ignatius Press’ Bible version, so they might as well use their book intros.
I’m pretty sure these would be the one’s done by OSV about twenty years ago, which have been found in a number of the Catholic Bible Press offerings. The first time I came into contact with them was via the NRSVCE Gift Bibles that came out around 2010 from HarperOne.
Ah yes, the ones with hypotheses presented as facts.
Journaling Bibles aren’t my thing, but I’m glad that the RSV2CE is getting more attention and editions.
I don’t know how many others here have been following the recently published Newrome Press “Holy Bible: Reader’s Edition,” which uses the Lexham English Septuagint for the Old Testament and the Eastern/Greek Orthodox Bible for the New Testament, but something interesting and semi-related that I just found by a random chance Google search was that the website for the EOB translation (easternorthodoxbible.org) appears to have gone back online after years of silence, and a “third revised edition” of the EOB New Testament was published on Amazon (via CreateSpace, as was the 2013 edition) about a month ago. Given that the restored EOB website still talks about the “EOB Old Testament,” I’m curious if that old project is being revived. I’m all for it! Even with the Oxford “Ancient Christian Study Bible” supposedly coming next year, I continue to have a soft spot for the EOB and its often quite unique (even if quaint) readings and would be very happy if it ultimately got completed.
Since the article on that site talking about the revisions only mentions four real edits (Mark 10:21; Luke 18:8; 21:19; Hebrews 11:1), I just penciled them into my 2013 edition paperback. There are probably other edits, since the Amazon description mentions the “implementation of editing suggestions received over the past 15 years since the publication of the first edition,” but I must confess that the seemingly AI-generated icon cover puts me off, so I’ll stick with my current copy and hope there’s more on the horizon for the EOB.