I spotted a post on the Catholic Answers Forums that showed the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible: Genesis volume would be released on October 30. That is good news for those of us that hope to see this project completed by the end of this decade. One hopes they will combine a number of the OT books into a single volume, like all of the historical books, once they get past the Torah. Yeah, I know...patience...patience....
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Awesome! Actually, I'm pleasantly surprised. I suspect (and I hope it's true) that if the next volume to come out after this is slow in coming, that this volume will be meaty enough to keep us busy for a while. It is Genesis, after all!
As somone who purchased the entire Ignatius NT booklets and now needs to find a home for them since the newly released NT contains the same information, I am hesitant to do the samefor the OT. Probably just wait until the full ICSB is published.,,but then again, maybe not.
However, here is a soon to be released solid Catholic OT book that was once published by Ignatius and is now coming out in a revised updated edition thanks to OSV. http://www.amazon.com/Consuming-Fire-Catholic-Guide-Testament/dp/1592765971/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275564381&sr=8-6
"The Consuming Fire" by Michael W. Dugan is an excellent overview of the Old Testament, emphasizing particularly the theological message of each book and providing at the end of each section a forward look to the New Testament. --George T. Montague, S.M., Professor of Theology, St. Mary's University, San Antonio, Texas
I remember that not all of the OT books will be published as pamphlets.
One thing that strikes me is that the whole Study NT is cheaper than similar books but the individual pamphlets are expensive compared to similar publications.
Yes I noticed that discrepancy in pricr also. That's why I didn't give me individual booklets away until I found out that the volume contained all the same information. Since the NT was so much cheaper, I thought that maybe it would have abridged information compared to the booklets.
Yeah, I am a bit conflicted on buying all these individual volumes. I know that it helps out Ignatius Press if people buy them, but why should I do that if the one volume study Bible will eventually be released? I think I will probably just buy for need, perhaps only when I am leading a Bible study, or class room discussion, on a particular book.
That is probably the way I will do it too. I only bought three individual booklets from the NT, and that was only because I needed them for specific projects
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