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:

Anonymous said...

"trustworthy study notes" HAHAHAHAHAHA

otherwise, looks good.

Unknown said...

Maybe they rewrote the study notes??

Timothy said...

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

Unknown said...

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.

Anonymous said...

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

Luke said...

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.

Timothy said...

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

Anonymous said...

If the Bible has a Imprimatur it is trustworthy.

Pax

hoshie said...

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.

Jason Engel said...

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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Jeff S. said...

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

Jeff S. said...

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.

Jeff S. said...

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



Jeff S. said...

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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Jeff S. said...

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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

Jeff S. said...

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

CWBuckley said...

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.

Jeff S. said...

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.