Monday, January 4, 2016

Cover and Amazon Listing for Catholic Study Bible (NABRE) Third Edition

The Amazon listing, for the paperback, is here.  It will be available also in hardback and bonded leather.  Why not genuine leather, like the NOAB 4th?  This is due to be released in March.

Below is the description:

This landmark resource, the first fully-based on the authoritative NABRE translation, contains the trustworthy study notes, expanded essays, and informational sidebars which have guided and informed students and general readers for 25 years. In this new edition, one-third of the Reading Guide materials are new, and all of the other Guides have been reviewed and revised by their original authors.

The extensive Reading Guide, the focal point of this volume, leads the reader through the Scriptures, book by book. References and background information are clearly laid out to guide the reader to a fuller understanding of the Bible. New to this edition is a more extensive treatment of the biblical background, including history and archeology.

Other outstanding features include: a 15-page glossary of special terms and complete Sunday and weekday lectionary readings for the liturgical years of the Church. Thirty-two beautiful pages of full-color Oxford Bible Maps come with a place-name index for easy reference.

Perfect for both higher education and clergy, Bible study and general readers, The Catholic Study Bible is an essential resource for both experienced students and first-time readers.

Table of Contents:
General Introduction - Donald Senior 
The Biblical Texts and Their Background - Donald Senior 
The Catholic Study Bible - Donald Senior 
The Bible in Catholic Life - Daniel J. Harrington 
Biblical History and Archeology: Old Testament - Ronald A. Simkins
Biblical History and Archeology: New Testament - Laurie Brink 
Catholic Interpretation of the Bible - Kevin Madigan 
The Challenges of Biblical Translation - Ronald D. Witherup 
The Bible in the Lectionary - Eileen Schuller

Reading Guides: Old Testament
The Pentateuch - Christopher Frechette 
The Deuteronomistic History - Leslie J. Hoppe 
The Chronicler's History - Richard Bautch 
The Later Histories - Kelley Coblentz Bautch 
The Wisdom Books - Dianne Bergant 
The Major Prophets, Baruch, and Lamentations - Katherine M. Hayes
Daniel and the Minor Prophets - John J. Collins

Reading Guides: New Testament
Matthew - Donald Senior
Mark - Susan Calef 
Luke - Pheme Perkins
John - Pheme Perkins 
Acts - Justin Taylor
Paul and His Writings - Mary Ann Getty and Carolyn Osiek
The General Letters and Revelation - Luke Timothy Johnson

20 comments:

  1. "trustworthy study notes" HAHAHAHAHAHA

    otherwise, looks good.

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  2. Maybe they rewrote the study notes??

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  3. Nope. Study notes go with the NABRE. The reading guides have usually been quite good. Looking forward to reviewing them.

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  4. Trustworthy study notes. Really? The NAB notes are not always trustworthy and the individual book intros reek of the worst of historical critical method which BXVI shot down in "Jesus of Nazareth" vol. 1. I'll pass on this volume.

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  5. I'm just wondering how in the world a paperback version of this THICK work will survive. Thoughts anyone on the prospect of this study bible coming in paperback form?

    --Emilia

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  6. Does anyone else find it interesting that there is ZERO overlap with the scholars who wrote the reading guides and those writing the CCSS series? It seems like the polarization in the Church extends to every facet.

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    1. Luke, I would say that both Fr Senior and the late Fr Daniel Harrington wrote endorsements for the CCSS.

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  7. If the Bible has a Imprimatur it is trustworthy.

    Pax

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  8. Back in the mid-1990s the Christian Research Institute (a Protestant Evangelical group) wrote a review of various study Bibles. They had this to say about the Catholic Study Bible:

    "Thirteen scholars, including general editor Donald Senior, contributed to the 577 pages of “Reading Guides” that precede the text. These contain brief academic introductions and section-by-section surveys of each book of the Bible, with bibliographies for further reading."

    I last saw this Bible around 1995 and I don't remember much about it.

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  9. Sales will determine whether Oxford re-releases this in some variety of leather. I hate to say it, but to a certain extent the old saw has teeth: it seems Catholics tend to buy fewer Bibles per individual than Protestants, and tend to be satisfied with lesser quality craftsmanship in the Bibles they do buy. In a way, I see the possibility that R. L. Allan might bind a Catholic NRSV in their signature goatskin style as the one test that must be passed - If they make it, the Catholics better come, or no publisher will again consider publishing premium quality Catholic Bibles.

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  12. Interesting enough, I just went on the Vatican website and looked up
    the English translation of the Bible; just go here and you'll find
    it has NO LINK listed for the Psalms !
    http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/_INDEX.HTM

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  13. P.S.
    What I meant was it does have the word Psalms, but there is
    no clickable link after the word or as part of the
    word itself. For example, Obadiah has nothing listed after it,
    but Obadiah itself is a clickable link. Similarly for some other
    shorter books like Philemon, 2 John, 3 John, and Jude; they are their
    own clickable link. But the Psalms has no links listed to click on
    after it and itself is NOT clickable.

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  14. Michael,
    Thanks for the tip. However, it's still very awkward.
    http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PFS.HTM
    It forces you to keep clicking "Next" to get to the next psalm,
    one-by-one. So if you want to get to psalm 122 for example,
    you have to do quite a lot of clicking.

    Hopefully you can find another trick to make your neat tip even
    easier to use. I notice as I click, the URL changes with a pattern
    which I'll write down and send in a following post



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  15. Here's the pattern to the URL's for the Psalms:
    It's a 36 element long pattern once it gets going
    as you should see below. You'll note that the last
    "group" has only 35 elements since the Hebrew, Catholic, and Protestant
    Bibles have only 150 Psalms. The Eastern Orthodox one does have Psalm 151
    and it's found in the NOAB RSV and NOAB NRSV (each with the Apocrypha)!
    Hopefully I don't have any typos here.

    Due to space limitations by the system here, I'll post it in three successive
    frames:

    Here's the pattern to the URL's for the Psalms:
    It's a 36 element long pattern once it gets going
    as you should see below. Hopefully I don't have any typos here.

    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PFS.HTM Introduction
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PFT.HTM Psalm 1
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PFU.HTM Psalm 2
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PFU.HTM Psalm 3
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PFW.HTM Psalm 4
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PFX.HTM Psalm 5
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PFY.HTM Psalm 6
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PFZ.HTM Psalm 7
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    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PG0.HTM Psalm 8
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PG1.HTM Psalm 9
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PG2.HTM Psalm 10
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PG3.HTM Psalm 11
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PG4.HTM Psalm 12
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PG5.HTM Psalm 13
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PG6.HTM Psalm 14
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PG7.HTM Psalm 15
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PG8.HTM Psalm 16
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PG9.HTM Psalm 17
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGA.HTM Psalm 18
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGB.HTM Psalm 19
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGC.HTM Psalm 20
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGD.HTM Psalm 21
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGE.HTM Psalm 22
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGF.HTM Psalm 23
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGG.HTM Psalm 24
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGH.HTM Psalm 25
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGI.HTM Psalm 26
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGJ.HTM Psalm 27
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGK.HTM Psalm 28
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGL.HTM Psalm 29
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGM.HTM Psalm 30
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGN.HTM Psalm 31
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGO.HTM Psalm 32
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGP.HTM Psalm 33
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGQ.HTM Psalm 34
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGR.HTM Psalm 35
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGS.HTM Psalm 36
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGT.HTM Psalm 37
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGU.HTM Psalm 38
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGV.HTM Psalm 39
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGW.HTM Psalm 40
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGX.HTM Psalm 41
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGY.HTM Psalm 42
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PGZ.HTM Psalm 43
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  16. -----------------------------------------------------------------
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PH0.HTM Psalm 44
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PH1.HTM Psalm 45
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PH2.HTM Psalm 46
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PH3.HTM Psalm 47
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PH4.HTM Psalm 48
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PH5.HTM Psalm 49
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PH6.HTM Psalm 50
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PH7.HTM Psalm 51
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PH8.HTM Psalm 52
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PH9.HTM Psalm 53
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHA.HTM Psalm 54
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHB.HTM Psalm 55
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHC.HTM Psalm 56
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHD.HTM Psalm 57
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHE.HTM Psalm 58
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHF.HTM Psalm 59
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHG.HTM Psalm 60
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHH.HTM Psalm 61
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHI.HTM Psalm 62
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHJ.HTM Psalm 63
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHK.HTM Psalm 64
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHL.HTM Psalm 65
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHM.HTM Psalm 66
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHN.HTM Psalm 67
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHO.HTM Psalm 68
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHP.HTM Psalm 69
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHQ.HTM Psalm 70
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHR.HTM Psalm 71
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHS.HTM Psalm 72
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHT.HTM Psalm 73
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHU.HTM Psalm 74
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHV.HTM Psalm 75
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHW.HTM Psalm 76
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHX.HTM Psalm 77
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHY.HTM Psalm 78
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PHZ.HTM Psalm 79
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    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PI0.HTM Psalm 80
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PI1.HTM Psalm 81
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PI2.HTM Psalm 82
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PI3.HTM Psalm 83
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PI4.HTM Psalm 84
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PI5.HTM Psalm 85
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PI6.HTM Psalm 86
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PI7.HTM Psalm 87
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PI8.HTM Psalm 88
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PI9.HTM Psalm 89
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIA.HTM Psalm 90
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIB.HTM Psalm 91
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIC.HTM Psalm 92
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PID.HTM Psalm 93
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIE.HTM Psalm 94
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIF.HTM Psalm 95
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIG.HTM Psalm 96
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIH.HTM Psalm 97
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PII.HTM Psalm 98
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIJ.HTM Psalm 99
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIK.HTM Psalm 100
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIL.HTM Psalm 101
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIM.HTM Psalm 102
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIN.HTM Psalm 103
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIO.HTM Psalm 104
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIP.HTM Psalm 105
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIQ.HTM Psalm 106
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIR.HTM Psalm 107
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIS.HTM Psalm 108
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIT.HTM Psalm 109
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIU.HTM Psalm 110
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIV.HTM Psalm 111
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIW.HTM Psalm 112
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIX.HTM Psalm 113
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIY.HTM Psalm 114
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PIZ.HTM Psalm 115

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  17. www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJ0.HTM Psalm 116
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJ1.HTM Psalm 117
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJ2.HTM Psalm 118
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJ3.HTM Psalm 119
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJ4.HTM Psalm 120
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJ5.HTM Psalm 121
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJ6.HTM Psalm 122
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJ7.HTM Psalm 123
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJ8.HTM Psalm 124
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJ9.HTM Psalm 125
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJA.HTM Psalm 126
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJB.HTM Psalm 127
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJC.HTM Psalm 128
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJD.HTM Psalm 129
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJE.HTM Psalm 130
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJF.HTM Psalm 131
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJG.HTM Psalm 132
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJH.HTM Psalm 133
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJI.HTM Psalm 134
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJJ.HTM Psalm 135
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJK.HTM Psalm 136
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJL.HTM Psalm 137
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJM.HTM Psalm 138
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJN.HTM Psalm 139
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJO.HTM Psalm 140
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJP.HTM Psalm 141
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJQ.HTM Psalm 142
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJR.HTM Psalm 143
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJS.HTM Psalm 144
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJT.HTM Psalm 145
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJU.HTM Psalm 146
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJV.HTM Psalm 147
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJW.HTM Psalm 148
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJX.HTM Psalm 149
    www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PJY.HTM Psalm 150

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  18. Catholic editions available for free at YouVersion's www.bible.com and YouBible app:
    -Douay-Rheims Challoner Revisions 1752
    -Good News Bible (Catholic edition)
    -NABRE

    I've been in touch with the publisher to ask they pursue rights to distribute RSV-2CE as well, and they are following up on it.

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  19. P.P.S.
    The explanatory phrase Psalm xxx shown for each link is
    NOT actually part of the link. I just put it there so you'll know what Psalm the link is for. So just copy and paste up through
    the .HTM part of each link.

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