It gives you a great insight to the authors of the books of the New Testament - telling you when they wrote, for what audience, how they had acquired their information, and much more. They are presented in single-column format below a dividing horizontal line, helping to visually distinguish them from the two-column main text. The volume is based on the current NABRE text, with its extensive footnotes and cross-references, which are presented in two columns below the two-column Biblical text, set off with a mere single line of white space. Our other Catholic Bibles are respected modern English translations, including Jerusalem, New Jerusalem and RSV (Revised Standard Version).

Commentaries include the best insights of ancient, medieval and modern scholarship, and follow the Church's guidelines for biblical interpretation.Frequent references is made to Fathers and Doctors of the Church, but I think (I might have missed something) that the most recent citation that is not from the CCC or a papal decree is from St. The notes and essays (which fall on a spectrum of traditional Catholic teaching) are non-academic, but certainly not anti-intellectual or overly “spiritual. This modest edition augments the NAB annotations with ~100 pages of articles, additional introductions for each book, and some background-style content within the main body, including: photographs, charts, maps, fan tabs, etc.

Having said that, Scott Hahn's notes and word studies are comprehensive and written in a form that is easy to understand for those who have an interest in the subject but do not have degrees in biblical studies. These tools are substantial additions to regular Bibles and of higher quality than most study tools. Detailed charts giving a visual overview of important characters, key events, maps, major covenants, and historical context.This Bible contains many of the standard parts that appear in most Bibles including a glossary, table of measures and weights and an index. It is fairly literal, but includes some intriguing poetical influences (including translation work by J.

The notes present a refreshingly fair and unique balance of traditional-orthodox and modern-critical viewpoints. It is well set out, has a beautiful cover, and is light enough in weight to handle comfortably when reading it. There are also study aids including maps, word studies (like expiation), doctrine explanation (like Faith and Works), important indices, and a concise concordance. The first update of the Old Testament since 1970, taking into account recent archaeological and textual discoveries. Scott Hahn has delivered thousands of popular talks and academic lectures, nationally and internationally, on a wide range of topics related to Scripture, Theology and the Catholic faith.Hitherto, the only choices had been the 1800s Haydock Douay-Rheims (which some would assert has been--and remains--the only legitimate Catholic Study Bible), Oxford's Catholic Study Bible (NAB/RE), and the Navarre Bible (RSVCE).

Starting with the NABRE text and notes, this edition adds a layer of references in a third section identifying all the liturgical usages of defined ranges of Biblical text. For example, the Palm Sunday procession of Year B contains two choices of either Mark of John (yes, its in the Roman Missal). Scott Hahn (extremely well-known for his Scriptural studies and his evangelical conversion to Catholicism) and Curtis Mitch fill the notes with references to In other words, it avoids the use of gender-indicative terminology whenever possible, including references to God.

The Pages however are so thin, that by putting a bookmark in-between the pages, i damaged the page itself, this is catastrophic, thicker pages would be very welcome for the next revisions. I know also that there’s the Ignatius Study Bible, but until the full version is out, that really only counts for the New Testament. It contains more comments, brief essays, and other helps within the text sections than does the other Oxford edition, but the bulk of the editorial material is still the Reader’s Guide section.