Reviewing the Little Rock Catholic Study Bible!

[@HoldFast-r7g]

Very fair review. Thank you for also covering Catholic bibles. Between reasonable Catholics and Protestants, there is more that unites than divides.

[@tommitus2053]

Ignatius Press just released their The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible (RSV2CE). I would be most interested in your take on it when you are able to address it.

[@danieljoshua4352]

He would do it on an obligation that you need to mail him the bible. Even i'm eagerly waiting for that bible. But I don't think it's available in india. By next year, perhaps, India would have it is what I guess.

[@Theos_thinker]

Yes, it would be cool if someone sent him a copy. I can’t afford two copies, so, if I get one copy for myself, maybe I can send him the New Testament copy, which I wouldn’t need anymore 🤔. That way, he could, at least, review the New Testament part of the Bible (Yes, I know he’s an Old Testament guy).

[@danieljoshua4352]

@@Theos_thinker He has it. He just posted. He wants to know if he needs to review now or wait until he reaches 50k. You may respond there.

[@Theos_thinker]

@ , yo, good to know. Thanks, bro!

[@LynneBroughton-l6q]

OSB = Order of St Benedict - Benedictine monk. OP = Order of preachers - Dominican friar

[@jdelarosa89]

Wow, it’s so refreshing to see someone actually open a Bible and actually read what’s inside. Most people on KZbin just talk about how nice the paper is or something.

[@ArleneAdkinsZell]

I truly enjoy these reviews with the live chat.

[@tp8122]

Love your reviews. Bought the Didache after watching you reviewing it and I'm not regretting it. Keep it up and God bless! :) I will skip the Llittle Rock and go for the newly released Ignatius Study Bible.

[@AncientNovelist]

JM, all of the post-nominals represent the religious order or congregation to which the person belongs. The best known of these are O.F.M. (Order of Friars Minor; the Franciscans) and O.S.B. (Order of St. Benedict; the Benedictines). O.S.F. (Order of St. Francis) is one of the Franciscan orders for women ('nuns'), and P.S.S. is Prêtres de Saint-Sulpice, a French congregation of ordained priests whose primary vocation is education of other priests.

[@ultimateoriginalgod]

I thought OSF was Order of Secular Franciscans lol

[@MM-jf1me]

Appreciate your even-handed review, JM! I'm neither Catholic nor do I agree with you 100% on biblical interpretation, but I feel like you've fairly represented this study Bible and anyone watching the video can clearly see whether they'd find it more or less useful for their purposes.

[@DiscipleDojo]

@@MM-jf1me thanks. That's definitely my goal.

[@jacobheatherington]

Good review. To understand these NABRE-based stuby Bibles, you've got to know something about the New American Bible. The New American Bible was originally published in 1970, and was part of Catholic scholars embracing modern scholarship (in a somewhat hasty and sycophantic fashion IMO) following the encyclical Divino Afflante Spiritu (1943) and Vatican II (1962-1965). It was arguably the first Catholic English-language Bible freshly translated from the original languages (if you think the Jerusalem Bible was really translated from the French), and it was met with a polite golf clap by the scholarly community as far as I can tell. Practicing Catholics mostly don't like it, however. The 1970 version was too nonliteral, weird and unpoetical in a lot of places. The NT was revised in 1986, and the OT revision (the "NABRE") was published in 2011 (though I think the actual work on it was mostly completed in the '90s). The revisions are better than the 1970 version, but still obnoxious in places. The real issue most Catholics have, though, is the footnotes. The NAB has baked-in footnotes; the USCCB generally won't let publishers publish it without the footnotes. So the footnotes in the Little Rock Study Bible and the Oxford Catholic Study Bible are the same footnotes, because they're not from the study Bible publisher, they're just part of the NABRE. The study guide at the front of the Oxford and the the sidebars in the Little Rock are unique, but not the footnotes. The footnotes are annoying: inconsistent in their coverage and tone and presumed audience, not extensive enough to qualify as a study Bible in themselves, but taking up so much space on the page that they severely limit what else can be added. There's an infamous, flagrantly-heretical footnote at Matthew 16:21. There's a "final" (we hope) revision of the NAB that was just approved by the USCCB, with a new translation of the NT (the OT will be mostly untouched). This new version will be used for the Catholic lectionary and the Liturgy of the Hours eventually. We are hoping for a better set of NT footnotes, and there are rumors that they might allow version to be published with a more minimal set of footnotes. So it will be interesting to see what kinds of resources we get for this new version in the future. Meanwhile, the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible (which just came out and uses the RSV) is now the only really serious, complete study Bible for believing Catholics. I have no doubt someone will send it to you soon.

[@edwardbell9795]

Thanks for the review. Much appreciated. The arrangement or pairing of OT and NT readings in the Lectionary is largely based on a typological reading to bring out the complementary relationship between the testaments. The Liturgy of the Hours, in particular the Office of Readings, provides lengthier coverage of both OT and NT. IMHO, the Little Rock Catholic Study Bible is fairly lame, although not without merit. The footnotes are the same as with every edition of the NABRE, so they're not unique or specific to the LRCSB, whereas as the side bars and shaded boxes as well as the essays at the beginning of the Bible are unique. Hopefully, someone will send you a copy of the newly published Ignatius Catholic Study Bible to review. I fear I can't afford to.

[@BrendaBoykin-qz5dj]

🌹🌟🔥🌟🌹 Great one,JM.

[@rhwinner]

I love Catholic Bibles they're bigger. More good stuff! 😁

[@donnavanmaanen1110]

I hope you do a review of the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible. I am Protestant but I have found the New Testament to be immensely helpful. The complete Old Testament is due out Dec. 3.

[@ThePeterWalnut]

JM, please review the new Ignatius Catholic Study Bible! Unfortunately, I can’t send you a copy from Brazil, but hopefully somebody would. Thanks for your ministry. God bless you

[@IsItTalentOrIsItNot]

What is the best study bible in your opinion? I don't even have a regular Bible so I want to get one asap. I wanted to get the Orthodox study Bible but I just seen your video saying not to get it. Thank You!

[@DiscipleDojo]

@@IsItTalentOrIsItNot see my Top 7 Study Bibles video for my picks.

[@michelleschoppe5390]

Thrilling 😊

[@Shevock]

So the letters after a scholars name that aren't related to college degrees are orders. If you think of Catholicism as the entirety of the world of Christiandom letters like OP, order of preachers, refers to Dominicans who are like Calvinists in their theology. OFM are Franciscans and OSB are Benedictines, etc.

[@carlose4314]

Baruch is sometimes included under Jeremiah.

[@stefanhenning40]

I'm not Catholic, but I still can't comprehend how people cannot clearly see Mary in Rev. 12. A young woman, pregnant with a child to rule all nations, with the 12 stars of Israel, running from the devil, etc. It's so on the nose, lol. Even though I disagree with you, it was a great video, as always!

[@lindajohnson4204]

Because it is a lot like Mary, but not exactly like her. So it suggests Mary, but goes beyond her. It is not Mary who has been persecuted since her son was delivered, although her life was painful and difficult. The "woman" has to be a figurative woman, both responsible for giving birth to Jesus, yet still not literally Mary. To the degree that she is not like Mary, she suggests the Jewish people, who gave us the Messiah, especially through that crown of 12 stars. They are the ones the devil has been punishing the most severely since the birth of Jesus. The Bible's God is even what Hitler hated about the Jews: the biblical morality of mercy, preservation of life, etc, which his Darwinistic morality saw as weakness. Since Mary was the particular young Jewish woman chosen to give birth to Jesus, it does fit her, yet not completely. It has to be something bigger than just her, simply because the prophecy doesn't completely fit her, although it certainly does suggest her. And we know that prophecy isn't careless with words and images.

[@USAP1776]

The woman in Rev 12 is Isreal, not Mary

[@DiscipleDojo]

@@stefanhenning40 the OT background and the way apocalyptic works both rule out a 1-to-1 interpretation of Mary.

[@stefanhenning40]

@@DiscipleDojo That's a very fair assessment. I do think that, although not 1-to-1, it is reasonable to find Mary in that passage because it is apocalyptic and fugitive. Equally, I understand why people believe it to be greater Israel, etc. Both interpretations are reasonable. @lindajohnson4204 Makes a strong case for the latter, yet I cannot shake the very raw and vivid image of Mary, the mother of God, being pursued by the Devil. It's a fascinating and enigmatic chapter.

[@darrellperez1029]

Look at La Virgen de Guadalupe. Then you'll see her even more when comparing revelations 12

[@davidstout6051]

Isaiah is also the most cited/quoted OT prophet in the NT.

[@ArtorGrael]

I wonder if the study articles are readable online? To be fair I do not think they are in full acceptance of the more liberal modernist interpretatoins. I think what they are trying to do with influential post modernist interpretations is arguing that even if they have a point they do not take away from our articles of Christian faith. I think they are acting pastprally.

[@carlose4314]

O.S.F, O.F.M, O.S.B., P.S.S. show what religious order someone is from. O.S.F. are the Secular Franciscans (secular meaning they are lay people) O.F.M. is Order of Friars Minor (classic Franciscan friar) O.S.B. are the Benedictines P.S.S. is the Society of Priests of Saint-Sulpice S.J. is Society of Jesus (better known as the Jesuits) O.P. is Order of Preachers (better known as the Dominicans)

[@lindajohnson4204]

"Little Rock" is a very ironic name!

[@danieljoshua4352]

Is little rock Peter?

[@DiscipleDojo]

@@danieljoshua4352 it's the name of a city in America where this Bible comes from.

[@danieljoshua4352]

@@DiscipleDojo thanks for sharing it.

[@lindajohnson4204]

@@DiscipleDojo That doesn't keep it from being ironic.

[@lindajohnson4204]

@@DiscipleDojo Yep, in the state across the Mississippi from my state, in which I've never had the money to do much as set foot in. Little Rock, Arkansas.

[@lukewagner8871]

Most all study Bibles are going to Support the doctrinal beliefs, that the institution who is publishing it believe in. Apostle Paul call this the wind of doctrine. Ephesians 4:14 KJVS That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;