Prioritize Bibles

Noel Fitzpatrick
Noel Fitzpatrick Member Posts: 159 ✭✭
edited November 20 in Resources Forum

Hi All,

Thanks for all who replied to my recent posts.

As you know I am returning to Verbum/Logos after a long time and wish to learn about it systematically.

Morris Proctor recommends choosing initially five prioritized Bibles. My choice for Catholic Bibles in order of preference is:

  • NABRE
  • NRSVCE
  • RSV2CE
  • NJB
  • NET

 

Do you agree?

 I would welcome suggestions and comments.

Would you consider it helpful to have in Verbum a glossary of technical computing terms used in support notes?

Comments

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 13,407 ✭✭✭

    Well, everything has to match your Bible study.

    Personally, I'd move NET up. My favs for notes are NABre and NET.  NJB is good for notes, too.  I mainly use the Help resource, when I'm confused.

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith Member, MVP Posts: 53,018 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Do you agree?

    It really depends upon your personal use. I prioritize the NRSV (not the NRSVCE) first because I need the broadest canon available. I still have to adjust my Bible priorities when dealing with Enoch.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • Noel Fitzpatrick
    Noel Fitzpatrick Member Posts: 159 ✭✭

    I am grateful for replies, which have clarified my thinking.

    DMB: I will move NET up. As well as using Help I am finding this forum excellent, as I am encouraged and stimulated by dealing with real persons as, following Aristotle, I hold that we are social animals.

    MJ Smith: I used to favour NRSVCE, but now I have as my preferred Bible NABRE, as it is very close to the Greek, which I used to study, and Dianne Bergant, who gave me great insights when we met, apparently favours it and her Commentary (NColBC) is my preferred one.

    I have added the ESV-CE to  prioritized Bibles.

    I will now move on to Commentaries.