Available in November. Looks similar to the popular RSV-CE done with Oxford University Press, but now with the 2CE.
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Available in November. Looks similar to the popular RSV-CE done with Oxford University Press, but now with the 2CE.
I’m sure it’s nice. 55 bucks? Good grief. Houses, cars and trucks, food, gas and books. ALL are becoming out of my reach. I’ll pass on this one.
I empathise. I’ve been collecting the 49 volume Works of Saint Augustine, published by New City Press, over the years. The 48th volume is about to be published but comes in at a princely $89. The early volumes were much better produced, with sewn bindings, but now they are just glued. Everything seems more and more expensive but of poorer quality. Even so, I may struggle to resist the RSV2CE Compact Edition. The old Oxford RSVCE Compact is just the right size for carrying to Adoration or parish Bible study classes.
I only bought two volumes of the New City Press series before tapping out and reselling them. Thick books that will need to be used for long periods of time and glued bindings do not mesh. Emmaus Academic is now in the process of republishing those same New City Press translations of St. Augustine, but with parallel Latin text, in the style of the Aquinas Institute’s parallel-text series for St. Thomas. Only two volumes are out now, so it probably will take decades for them to finish it, but I can at least be confident in them remaining sewn throughout. Emmaus’s Glossa Ordinaria translation is actually moving along faster than I initially expected, so who knows? The parallel-text Augustine series could have a slow start and then start flooding out in a few years. But obviously not an ideal situation for those who’ve spent years already purchasing that translation from New City Press.
The Emmaus edition of St Augustine is currently set to roll out through to 2035. The volumes are well produced if outsized. As with the Aquinas volumes they lack introductory materials, bibliographies and indices, which are considerable shortcomings.
Yeah, I agree re: the lack of introductions and back matter, but I assume that could’ve been a compromise as part of the licensing, so that Emmaus’s editions wouldn’t immediately drive New City Press out of the market for their own translation. I’m just glad the NCP footnotes have been retained in the Emmaus editions. Fortunately, the paperbacks of those NCP editions are relatively cheap and available at libraries for the introductions. The recent discovery of “lost Augustine sermons” also reminds us that the NCP/Emmaus series perhaps may never truly be “complete”…
Finally!
Price? I expect it to actually sell in the $35 range.
But maybe only after the holidays.
Looks like it is available for pre-order on their website now. https://ignatius.com/rsv2ce-compact-bible-2cblp/
Why do they feel the need to tell us on the spine that maps of the Holy Land are included? Less is more.
Agreed
Off topic, but Magnificat released some info on their forthcoming edition of the CAB.
https://us.magnificat.net/newbible/
Maps of the holy land on the spine is insane . I hope it has chapter headings . That’s my biggest beef with the current rsvce zipper compact edition.
Ant,
Yep. The thing for me is the readability. And chapter headings help space out the text a bit, which is needed for a compact.
I don’t understand why Catholic publishers market products with the absolute minimal content possible. It’s always a grainy picture of a closed Bible or the slip case box the Bible will come in with *maybe* 1 or 2 pictures of the actual pages lol. Ascension’s collaboration with customers on Reddit for the LOTH product line is a nice change and all it takes is having someone under the age of 35 working in the marketing department. I guess we will have to wait for someone to buy this Bible and post a video on YouTube to learn more about its actual readability and design.