Choice of Commentaries

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

Thanks for all the help I have got. I have prioritized my top six Bibles, and I have used the good advice from participants in making my choices. Now I would like to consider commentaries. As these   are more difficult I am including ten . Issues arise as my principal study is the Psalms in English, hence commentaries focusing on the complete Bible, the Hebrew Bible and the Psalms are included. Again, I would welcome and appreciate suggestions.

Prioritized Commentaries

NABRE:RE Notes Catholic Study Bible, 2nd ed. by John J. Collins; Mary Ann Getty; C.P. Fr. Donald Senior

 

New Collegeville Bible Commentary (2 vols.) by Irene Nowell; Roland J. Faley; Thomas M. Bolin; John J. Collins

 

A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture by Bernard Orchard; Edmund F. Sutcliffe

 

Harper’s Bible Commentary by James L. Mays; Society Of Biblical Literature

 

An Introduction and Commentary Psalms 1–72  (Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries TOTC)  Vol 15 by Derek Kidner

 

Faithlife Study Bible by John D. Barry; David Bomar; Derek R. Brown; Miles Custis; Michael R. Grigoni

 

The NET Bible: Full Notes Edition (1st ed.) by Biblical Studies Press

 

Praying the Psalms in Christ - Reading the Scriptures by Laurence Kriegshauser

 

Psalms (The Two Horizons Old Testament Commentary THOTC) by Geoffrey W. Grogan

 

A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament by Brant James Pitre; John Bergsma  

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

    Again, it's for your benefit ... the choices.

    I like your top choices ... big picture, good directions to explore.

    Your lower ones appear to offer more detail. If this was your strategy, it seems good. I just got a separate Collegeville; it's quite good.

    Just my opinion, but maybe you might describe how you would use the sort ... which tools in Verbum are you planning?  This might alter your choices.

    "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 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Although my prioritization is quite different, I would put the Jerusalem Bible Notes at the top of this prioritization.

    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."

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