Hands on Review: New Ignatius Catholic Study Bible
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- I review the newly released Ignatius Catholic Study Bible Old and New Testament. It is just a quick review to get oversight of the Bible to help anyone that might be considering the purchase of this study Bible. 
I’m obsessed with watching reviews of this Bible.
I just got mine, its a motherlode, maybe 20 lbs
@ Wow! Since it’s so big, how do you intend on using it?
I understand it’s intended use, but is it practical to carry, etc.,?
Have you tabbed it, yet? I want to see a what it looks like.
I want to use the Story of Salvation Timeline Tabs from Asencion Center. I think it calls for that type of system given the amount of resources this new version has.
Thoughts?
Mine just shipped!
@@rpmgrlca Ah! Exciting! 👏👏
Same 😂
We really made it this far. Absolutely based.
Just ordered this bible yesterday. I am currently using the The Great Adventure Bible to do Father Mikes bible in a year and bought this to accompany those readings. Sometimes I require a little more explanation than is in Great Adventure so will be using this as a reference book and maybe a different point of view. I really like the timeline setup in The Great Adventure and for me it kind of makes the bible much easier to understand with the time reference. I also like Father Mikes way of explaining everything on his podcast and am hoping this new bible only expands my understanding of the word of God. I can't comment on this new bible as I haven't received it yet. Have a great day everybody!!
@scott7452
I waited for about a month for mine as well on pre order... but seriously... when comparing it to other Catholic Study Bibles... especially the Catholic Study Bible 3rd edition from Oxford... I found the St. Ignatius 2nd Revised edition.... severely lacking.. in scholarship.. and notes... Granted... the notes in the Catholic Study Bible 3rd edition.. may.. have more liberal leanings.. BUT this should NOT be a deterrent to any well grounded Catholic who knows God...
as a previous Pastor once told me.. just eat the watermelon and spit out the seeds..
what you get with the St. Ignatius Study Bible.. information wise.. is more like a cantaloupe.. compared to the other bible's watermelon...
Granted the St. Ignatius Bible IS a hefty bible... but this is partly due to each page weighing close to a gram More.. than most bibles.. to be honest with you I would prefer lighter paper and heavier notes..
I was extremely disappointed with the depth of thought involved in the notes of the St. Ignatius Study Bible... I think that Most studious High schoolers.. could have written.. some of the explanations..
If You want an in Depth Note .... bible to get...
try something else..
I have ordered a copy of the bible via Amazon.
At age 64, I'm still watching Bible review videos, although I am much more selective now when it comes to print bibles.
I have the ESV as a kindle book. The Reformed / Calvinist Study Bible I prefer to own as a print book is the Reformation Heritage Study Bible because of the Reformed Creeds and Confessions. I also own the Concordia Lutheran Study Bible as opposed to the on published by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
For Catholic bibles, currently I own the Didache Study Bible (RSV2CE) and the New Catholic Bible.
However, between Scott Hahn's videos, the over view video by Convinced Catholicism, I can see that I want the Ignatius Study Bible Old and New Testament as a print book. Dr. Scott Hahn's scholarship is Spot Hahn! I know, that one was a groaner! 🙂
I use my Catholic Study Bibles and the Orthodox Study Bible together when doing Bible Study, along with a simple NKJV text bible because of the textual notes, which gives the differences between the main text families, such as Texture Receptus, Majority Text, Latin Vulgate, LXX, Samaritan Penteteuch, DEA Sea Scrolls and etc.
I also have an old Jerusalem Bible with study notes and a Thompson Chain Reference KJV Bible from back in the day.
I think it is a good thing to have study bibles representing various schools of thought.
Thanks for the overview of the new Ignatius Study Bible.
I collect Bibles but unfortunately, i dont read them that much. May the Holy spirit gives me the wisdom and motivation to read
Fellow fan of Convinced Catholicism here. If you appreciate study Bibles representing various schools of thought, I recommend the Dake Study Bible. It is Dispensational (like Scofield on steroids) and Pentecostal and is just a wealth of fascinating reading. It is KJV. I have a lot of Study Bibles, but none that you mentioned, so I've got some homework to do (but pushing 60, I really don't need to expand my collection! :-). Blessings.
Excellent overview! I preordered mine and am now keeping vigil at the door for the Amazon van. I got to thinking of another difference between evangelicals and Catholics: If this were an evangelical Bible, it would be marketed as "The Scott Hahn Study Bible," and "The Bishop Barron Study Bible" instead of the Word on Fire (which I see almost off-screen). Protestants John MacArthur, David Jeremiah, Tony Evans et al. all plaster their names on their Bibles, but that hasn't caught on in Catholic culture--yet (and hopefully never). Enjoyed your video!
@@g.p.ryecroft fair critique of Protestant Bible marketing. I am afraid Protestant publishers are a little more at the whim of capitalist tactics and it is unfortunate. I do not prefer these solo commentary Bibles. But not all Protestant publishers make this mistake. Take the ESV SB, the Reformation SB, or the Ancient Faith SB, or the Church History SB.
@@Hishumbleslave Good point. I have the Ancient Faith and the Apologetics Study Bible, so will amend my statement. I do like the old school Dake and Scofield, so guess I'm guilty of supporting a couple of those solo efforts myself. Thanks for the response!
Thanks for the brief review. This publication is not available in the UK until 22 December 2024. So, the waiting continues! 😊👍
Thanks much for this!
Thank you for this
The Revised Standard Version (Catholic Edition) is among the absolute best study
Bibles that there is! And I say this even though I am not a Catholic!! Needless to
say, I have one!
@@markpalka6382 I've got the Ignatius Press Didache edition which cross references the CCC.
I would so love to have this copy here in the Philippines but I am not sure if this will be available and soon. This will be very useful for my weekly bible study 😢
I used to sell in Lazada Barrons WOF Bible. I ordered in bulk (like 10) i keep 1 for myself and sell the rest in order to recover the shipping fee. I sold it at almost same price as sold in US. But because i bought in bulk i got a discount. Now i am in Saudi Arabia so i discontinued selling other volumes. Maybe i wilL do again for this Bible when i got home.
I’ve been watching lots of reviews for this Bible! I am Catholic convert and am looking for a good study Bible. This one looks very intimidating. I was looking at the Great Adventure Bible too. Would it be better to get Great AdventureBible first and then the Ignatius Bible?
Sorry to butt in since you didn't ask me, but I would say YES. I taught RCIA for a couple years and the K of C donated Great Adventure Bibles to the catechumens and they loved it. Jeff Cavins is rock solid, and if you like Fr Mike Schmitz he used it on his online read-through. Most all the catechumens were brand new to reading the Bible and it was a great entry-level Bible. BUT... be sure to step up to the Ignatius at some point and keep growing in your knowledge and love for God's Word. Blessings!
@ thank you for your input! I appreciate it. I was asking anyone who read my comment ! Hehe God Bless!
@ thank you for your input! I appreciate it. I was asking anyone who read my comment ! Hehe God Bless!
I am in RCIA currently, from protestantism, and am planning on getting this study bible. I've read some of Scott Hahn's stuff and he has quite a brilliant mind when it comes to theological study, so I trust this will be very good. Intimidating? Sure. But we have the rest of our lives to study and this study bible seems top notch for that.
Clearly a quality Bible. That said, TOO THICK, TOO BIG for me. Perhaps you former-Protestants still have your 1984 NIV Study Bible. It was one of the best-selling Bibles of all-time. Lots of good notes. Yet, it didn't weigh 50 lbs. Why can't we have a study Bible like that? I continue to be frustrated with what is available.
Peter Kreeft still recommends the RSV CE not the 2CE.
I prefer the 2nd CE. It removes the archaic language (thee, thy, thou, etc.) which I find clumsy.
@@acardnalbut sometimes it’s useful to distinguish plural or singular you
Plural or singular "you" can be determined by the context. At least I can.
@@acardnal but sometimes the context not in the same verse, that's why people always abuse some verses to confused the weaklings
Waiting for mine 😔
Thanks. Would you comment on the notes? Is it with updated scholarship
@@adrianng2280 This is something I cannot speak to directly right now as I have never possessed the single NT edition. Perhaps, if you have a specific verse I can check and advise what the notes say.
How are the introductory notes on Pentateuch? I'm not buying another Bible that tells me Moses didn't write it. Ditto Isaiah and the dating of Daniel
I’ll post the photos on the community page of my channel if I can. It appears to explain the traditional view on the matter first and then explains the modern scholarship on the matter. And says it’s muddy and it may be too broad and sweeping to make the claim that they all were written by Moses or to say they all were not. But they lean with the traditional view.
@@leepatterson5842 see above
@@Hishumbleslave
I waited for about a month for mine on pre order... but seriously... when comparing it to other Catholic Study Bibles... especially the Catholic Study Bible 3rd edition from Oxford... I found the St. Ignatius 2nd Revised edition.... severely lacking.. in scholarship.. and notes... Granted... the notes in the Catholic Study Bible 3rd edition.. may.. have more liberal leanings.. BUT this should NOT be a deterrent to any well grounded Catholic who knows God...
as a previous Pastor once told me.. just eat the watermelon and spit out the seeds..
what you get with the St. Ignatius Study Bible.. information wise.. is more like a cantaloupe.. compared to the other bible's watermelon...
Granted the St. Ignatius Bible IS a hefty bible... but this is partly due to each page weighing close to a gram More.. than most bibles.. to be honest with you I would prefer lighter paper and heavier notes..
I was extremely disappointed with the depth of thought involved in the notes of the St. Ignatius Study Bible... I think that Most studious High schoolers.. could have written.. some of the explanations..
If You want an in Depth Note .... bible to get...
try something else...
Looks like the type bleeds through from the opposite page. How bad is the bleed??
@@bill19441 looks worst on the video than IRL
@@Hishumbleslave That is good to hear.
👍🏽
Does this Bible treat Genesis as a historical book from the beginning?
Probably not, seeing as how the catholic perspective of that book has a more metaphorical view
@ That is not the Traditional Catholic view. I follow the Church fathers not the noval modern view. All of the fathers treated it as historical.
The modern view destroys faith.
@@ao19776they treated some parts as historical and some parts as metaphorical, you’ll have to be more specific on what you mean by genesis being historical
@ The six day creation account. Genesis 1 and 2.
Modern day people try to say it is poetry ect. and that you don’t really have to believe it.
I reject this.
One, a plain reading of the text shows that is not poetry or a metaphor like the book of wisdom or like a parable. Two, the fathers always said it was historical and written in the style of history. They all read it in a literal way.
I have a douay Rhiems Bible with Haydock commentary and regularly use the church fathers and doctors of the Church when reading the Bible.
I don’t subscribe to the modern noval view of things. I really don’t want a study Bible calls into question my faith.
@@ao19776 I also enjoy the Haydock Douay-Rheims, which as you know holds to the true Catholic faith before the disasters of Vatican II (to paraphrase Fr William Jenkins). I am also a Catholic 6-day-young-earth creationist despite modernist apologists like Jimmy Akin attacking YECs and despite Scott Hahn reimagining Genesis 1 as some ancient poem prefiguring the Mass (an ill-conceived flight of fancy at best).
I waited for about a month for mine as well on pre order... but seriously... when comparing it to other Catholic Study Bibles... especially the Catholic Study Bible 3rd edition from Oxford... I found the St. Ignatius 2nd Revised edition.... severely lacking.. in scholarship.. and notes... Granted... the notes in the Catholic Study Bible 3rd edition.. may.. have more liberal leanings.. BUT this should NOT be a deterrent to any well grounded Catholic who knows God...
as a previous Pastor once told me.. just eat the watermelon and spit out the seeds..
what you get with the St. Ignatius Study Bible.. information wise.. is more like a cantaloupe.. compared to the other bible's watermelon...
Granted the St. Ignatius Bible IS a hefty bible... but this is partly due to each page weighing close to a gram More.. than most bibles.. to be honest with you I would prefer lighter paper and heavier notes..
I was extremely disappointed with the depth of thought involved in the notes of the St. Ignatius Study Bible... I think that Most studious High schoolers.. could have written.. some of the explanations..
If You want an in Depth Note .... bible to get...
try something else...
The ESV Study Bible is not a Catholic Bible. It is missing 7 books of the Catholic Bible. And the wording is different in certain parts. The most complete Catholic Bible, although it is not a study Bible, is the Douay-Rheims Bible. As it was written pre-Vatican II, it does not try to adhere to Protestant dogma.
@@mlollar354 I never said the ESV Bible was a Catholic Bible. I merely referenced it for size dimensions on the occasion that a potential buyer has the ESV Bible to make a comparison.
mlollar, there is an ESV Catholic Bible called the Augustine Study Bible that restores the deuteros. I haven't seen it, but would think no matter how good it is, the Ignatius will trump it and all other pretenders to the throne.
@@g.p.ryecroft There is the ESV-CE published by SPCK.