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Title: Fireside School and Church Edition - Burgundy by Heirloom Bible ISBN: 1-55665-490-1 Publisher: Heirloom Bible Publishers Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good Translation, Great Notes
Comment: This modern American Catholic translation is very readable and somewhat literal, which is admittedly to my preference. (Even as a Roman Catholic, one of my favorite translations in English is the NASB.) At times, however, the translators in order to keep this from the stiffness found in academic study translations seemed to slip into near colloquialisms. Somewhere in this translation I read "ignoramus." It was a little distracting. And in I Cor. 9:26 just the other day I was similarly distracted by Paul's "I do not fight as if I were shadowboxing" where a less comical image in the RSV is of Paul futilely "beating the air." I would personally prefer a retention of some of the archaic speech where the modern speech upsets the cadence of the Scripture. But the purpose of this translation seems to have been an attempt to strike a balance between accessibility and literalness. Generally, I believe the translators met that goal.
The notes. Ahhhhh. The notes. Of interest especially for the Roman Catholic, and also for the general Catholic and high Protestant are the wonderful notes. Many fundamentalists who don't accept the Elohist/Yahwist schools of Old Testament study, and the "Q" Gospel source theory will be upset by the copious, legible notations, text breaks and subject headings, and expository book introductions. For me, they make the Sacred Scripture come to life by breathing context into the writings.
It is this particular translation of the Sacred Scripture with its notes and study aids that finally allowed me to make my first productive reading of Leviticus and Numbers. Where before I had dutifully plowed just to plow, this time I came away learning and cross-referencing and stopping to ponder the mercies of a God who gave us a fantastic type of His Son in Moses, the great "Legislator" (as Josephus would title him).
Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful Bible!!!
Comment: This Bible has been great! It has taken a lot of use for the last few years and held up nicely. Dictionary in the back is very helpful as well as the three year cycle of readings. You'll be happy with this Bible.
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Title: Understanding Catholic Christianity by Thomas Zanzig, Barbara Allaire ISBN: 0884893723 Publisher: Saint Mary's Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Written on Our Hearts: The Old Testament Story of God's Love by Mary Reed Newland, Barbara Allaire ISBN: 0884897761 Publisher: Saint Mary's Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.60 |
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Title: Health: Making Life Choices by Whitney Sizer-Webb ISBN: 0538429852 Publisher: Glencoe McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $72.00 |
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Title: Jesus of History, Christ of Faith by Thomas Zanzig ISBN: 0884895300 Publisher: Saint Mary's Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.30 |
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Title: The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth by Brian Singer-Towns, Janet Claussen, Clare Vanbrandwijk ISBN: 0884897591 Publisher: Saint Mary's Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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