Catholic Bible

[katesmom]

I have the NIV Application Study Bible. I love this bible. It explains difficult scripture & I need all the help I can get!

What is the difference between the Catholic Bible and other bibles? Do you know where I can get a great Catholic Bible (possibly for free or low cost) Thanks

 

[thereselittleflower]

I have the NIV Application Study Bible. I love this bible. It explains difficult scripture & I need all the help I can get!

What is the difference between the Catholic Bible and other bibles? Do you know where I can get a great Catholic Bible (possibly for free or low cost) Thanks

You have to realize that a non-Catholic bible is going to explain difficult passages in ways that may be contrary to Catholic teaching and doctrine . .

I have a bible I still love to use . . but I am aware that it does contain information that is not in line with Catholic teaching, but its got a great wealth of information that doesn't contradict Catholic teaching.


What is it you want the bible for specifically? Do you want to learn apologetics? Do you want one for devotional use?

A Catholic bible is going to have ALL the books originally canonized . . .in their proper places. . . it is going to have notes consistant with Catholic teaching (If it is a good one) and then there are those which include Early Church Fathers and Church documents in the notes . .



What are you hoping to get out of your bible right now?



Peace in Him!

 

[MParedon]

Do you know where I can get a great Catholic Bible (possibly for free or low cost) Thanks

I found a Ignatius Bible (Revised Standard Version-Catholic Edition) for 19.95.

A while back I found a site that had free Catholic Bibles, but I can't find it now, I'll try to keep looking.

 

[Carrye]

A while back I found a site that had free Catholic Bibles, but I can't find it now, I'll try to keep looking.

Ooh, please do!

 

[AMDG]

A Catholic Bible is just the same as a Protestant Bible with the exception that it has the seven Deuterocanonical books--Wisdom, Sirach, Judith, Baruch, Tobit, and 1 and 2 Maccabees, as well as portions of Daniel and Esther--as well as the 66 protocanonical books. In other words, it has the books of the Septuagint that were the "norm" for sixteen centuries.

Sometimes an old Douay-Rheimes Bible, which was the standard Catholic version for 200 years, can be gotten at a Thrift Store or so, as probably the 1966 Jerusalem Bible. The standard now in the United States is the New American Bible. The readings of the liturgy are from it. Although not all RCIAs give Bibles out, my husband was GIVEN a paperback NAB when he went to RCIA in the military. Of course probably the best Catholic Bible we have is the Ignatius Bible which is a reprint of the 1966 Revised Standard Version.

 

[MParedon]

I couldn't find the free Catholic Bible website but I did find a site with really really low cost Catholic Bibles.

 

[thereselittleflower]

Here is a Catholic version of the Life Application Bible:

http://commerce.parable.com/1822055/item_0842354425.htm





Peace in Him!

 

[katesmom]

thereselittleflower: I dont really know what I want it for? Ive never seen/read/studied from one, so I am interested in learning about it. That link is wonderful!! Thank you for finding that for me!

MParedon: Thank you for those links. They were helpful!

AMDG: Thank you for the explanation. Perhaps I will start looking at the thrift stores. I do frequent those often! Thanks

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[Carrye]

Yes, used book stores are some of the best places to find them. I'm still hoping to find an interlinear Bible, and pick up a few other translations at one of the stores out here.

 

[Axion]

I have the NIV Application Study Bible. I love this bible. It explains difficult scripture & I need all the help I can get!

I have the NIV study bible as one of my bibles. It is very good on some aspects, and doesn't give many concessions to Liberalism, but in other places the notes twist scripture so that it conforms with Protestant Evangelical doctrines. It is therefore a bad resource for Catholics to use to understand Catholic teaching and its relation to scripture.

What is the difference between the Catholic Bible and other bibles? Do you know where I can get a great Catholic Bible (possibly for free or low cost) Thanks

Most protestant bibles have 7 Old Testament books removed.

Some catholic Study Bibles, including the Jerusalem Bible and the NAB, tend to have Liberal Study notes, which treat modern critical theories about the Bible as if they were facts, and sometimes do not give as much emphasis to Catholic Teaching as I would like.

There is a reasonably priced pastoral Bible with Catholic study notes here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/8428520496/103-9077332-1534207?v=glance

You can also read and download for free here:
http://www.bible.claret.org/bibles/

 

[InnerPhyre]

New American Bible Saint Joseph Edition

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0899429505/102-4459377-7430518?v=glance

You can get one used for $2. It has EXCELLENT notes that are right in line with the teachings of the Church. Seriously....the notes take up like half of each page and are solid gold. You've gotta get one.

 

[Axion]

New American Bible Saint Joseph Edition

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0899429505/102-4459377-7430518?v=glance

You can get one used for $2. It has EXCELLENT notes that are right in line with the teachings of the Church. Seriously....the notes take up like half of each page and are solid gold. You've gotta get one.

Has the St Joseph Edition different notes to the standard NAB?

I saw the notes to the NAB available over here, (it isn't the Official bible in the UK) and as I said in my last post, was underwhelmed.

 

[Paul S]

Here's three Catholic online bibles:

Douay-Rheims: http://www.scriptours.com/bible/
NAB: http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/index.htm
Clementine Vulgate: http://vulsearch.sourceforge.net

The Vulgate site also has a free program you can download that displays the Vulgate and NAB side-by-side, with some other features. It's also the only site I've seen with the Clementine Vulgate, which is the version used at Mass.

For low-cost print Bibles, you might try Amazon or eBay.