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Can you do bible study I cannot find anything in this level for me. I am learning disabilities and sometimes it is hard for me to understand the Bible, I would like guidance simplified and explaining how God works🙏🏼😊
@@JeffBurden I only read the RSCVCE but i recently bought this only because i am a Catechist and that is the version we use , but overall i think this Bible would be great for the students, since they're more versions of the Bible out there.
I am bilingual catechist, I really like this new catholic youth bible. It has more details that the previous one. I hope they also make the changes in the bible Spanish. The only thing i don't like is the high cost. I work with young catholic with limited resouces and every time there is new edition the cost is more.
Yes, I would tend to agree. As a non-Catholic who would like to read the Apocrypha I think it would be good to get this Bible in the NRSV (which I understand is perhaps more "scholarly" as this is the translation Oxford University Press uses in their study Bible). Too bad there isn't an Anglicized edition (I'm Canadian and prefer British spellings) but I can make do.
I thumbed through this one at the bookstore and must say I'm very impressed with the format and much of the content. What troubled me, though, is that I just happened to flip through Corinthians where there is the controversial verse about women being silent in church... They had an apologetics note highlighted in a little box (which I definitely think is needed for such a difficult verse), but rather than explain the context or culture or relate it to Can. 767 §1(only the priest or decon can give the homily) it says something to the effect of "Don't worry about this, Paul didn't write it, it was added later by some anonymous anti-woman scribe". 😳 Now there may be a legitimate debate about this, but I think it is a very unwise apologetic strategy to leap to that conclusion and use it to defend that verse. Especially for youth (as well as for anyone with a weak or undeveloped faith) I think that undercutting trust in the bible to explain a specific verse is going to do more damage than it will solve. It makes me wonder how many of the other apologetic boxes in this bible follow a similar strategy, which I would call unwise at best and "offensive to pious ears" at worst... I have some issues with some of the NAB study notes too (the translation itself I like a lot, though). It seems like in some places they betray a lack of faith... One note that sticks out in my mind is from a prophesy Jesus made, and the note said something to the effect of "Jesus didn't actually say this, it was put in his mouth afterwards" because, you know, no one can tell the future right? 🤦 And in other places it seems like the notes are much too scholarly for the average bible reader, being much too concerned with who wrote what and in what order, which is not why the average Catholic reads the bible. They should be more focused on drawing out the spiritual meaning and defending/explaining difficult passages. So in many ways I am really impressed with this bible but, like many bibles in the Catholic world unfortunately, I think some of the details in the content are unnecessarily dangerous. I really think as mainstream Catholics we need to call this kind of thing out where we see it so the publishers learn what we find unacceptable.
