Navarre Bible
Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2017 8:01 pm
This study Bible has been mentioned in a couple of different threads, I thought it might be helpful to give it its own thread so we can discuss it in one place.
Looking at this sample page, the morphological and syntactic commentary seems to be on the Latin Vulgate rather than the original Greek text? It looks like this is very much oriented toward people who see Catholic and Latin sources as primary authorities? Or am I inferring too much from this sample page?MaxPC wrote:Yet one of the reasons I bought the very expensive Navarre Bible in the multi-volume set is the fact that it's an all-inclusive morphological and syntactic approach & commentary which does an exhaustive correlation between the Bible, our Catechism, documents of Church Fathers, and offers the Latin as well as the RSV-CE to make it easier to cross reference with Douay Rheims and critical documents that haven't been translated from Latin yet. Even with the multiple volumes, it still takes up less space on the shelves than having the references in dedicated tomes. It's not a Bible for casual reading but is a go-to for more exhaustive scholarship.
I think different translations have their own best audiences.