The Catholic Study Bible 3rd Edition, Kindle Edition

This is a marvelous book for wherever you are in your spiritual journey. I am convert to Catholicism and found this study bible to be essential, especially given the additional books (73 versus 66). My favorite new-to-me book is Tobit, a truly delightful story. I have the prior edition and the hard cover and electronic versions of this edition. DO NOT, I repeat, DO NOT purchase the electronic version. I have never so badly wanted a return of my money. This book is too intricate not to be fully linked and better organized with guides. There needs to be chapter verse linking, otherwise you just get woefully lost. If you would like to truly study the Bible, this is a great addition to your texts, but please DO NOT buy the e-version lest you be discouraged.

What I like: first off, the revised edition of the NAB OT is really good. There are many who are critical of the NAB, and for good reason; but the 2011 NABRE is much improved. The notes and introductions for each book are the standard ones you'll find in any NAB(RE). But the real meat and potatoes of this study Bible is the 500+ pages of study notes located in the front of this bible. The study notes cover each and all 73 books. They provide solid, scholarly information about the structure, and thought behind the writings. This study bible also includes a lectionary, very nice Oxford maps, and a pretty good sized concordance and glossary. Thumb tabs are also included which I don't really have an opinion on, but I'll take em.What I don't like: I was a bit hesitant to purchase because of some reviews complaining about the binding coming apart after some use. So far, after a few months of steady use, I can tell that the binding isn't that strong. Ive been very careful not to be too casual with this bible so as to prevent the binding from coming loose. I've done a good job thus far, but c'mon, I've got books waaaay older that can and have taken a beating and the binding remains strong as ever. Anyway, the spine has gotten a little flimsy and I'm not sure how long I have until it separates. Hopefully never. The paper is ehh. Obviously you can't have thick paper on a study Bible or it will become too heavy and too unpractical to carry. But I have other bibles just as big that seem to have good quality paper and not sacrifice its portability. So expect some ghosting but not enough that you'd be too afraid to highlight, BUT only with good quality bible markers. Be warned regular highlighters or pens will bleed through BIG time. But those marker/crayons and pens made specially for thin paper works just fine; minimal bleed through. One more issue I have is it doesn't come with ribbons. A bible with this much material should have at least two, (though four would be even better). No excuse Oxford, no excuse.So all in all, a wonderful, scholarly, study Bible for any serious Christian. Buy it, but be gentle with it.BTW, here is a link to the Mr. Pen- Dry Highlighter, Gel Highlighters that I bought. They work well. There's some tinting on the back of the page that was highlighted but it is minimal. Go light and you'll be fine. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0793DYRKV/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_kaUpBb9MYR8Y1

The Paper Book Edition is just awesome!!I got the Hardback edition and its has/is:1) Thumb indexing2) Being a study edition of the Bible, it is a large heavy volume, but worth every ounce of its weight in knowledge, I wouldn't want to carry it to a Bible study unless the particular class uses tables, and not just your lap to hold your study materials on. The is actually a darkish red, not the pink that my camera makes it look like, It is printed on semi opaque paper that allows a little shadow of text on other side of page, but not too bad. Margins are narrow, but I haven’t seen a book of any kind, religious or secular study, with wide margins in a long time.3) Text average sized serif font for a Bible, could be a little bigger, but it ok. Footnotes are in a smaller font, and could be larger as small font makes them hard to read unless in good lighting...4) Has awesome footnotes and a "reader's guide/study notes) that is quite informative. Has awesome maps, a short concordance, listing of the Sunday and weekday lectionary for Mass readings, something that I constantly look for in a Catholic Bible.5) Is an awesome study edition of the New American Bible that is used by the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S.A.6) Cover, actually RED, not pink, though it looks like it has a slick surface in the photo(s) used by the vendors, has a graspable slightly rubberized finish that is comfortable to hold...See my photos, they are worth volumes of words!The Kindle Edition:1) Not user friendly, a PDF bible would be more user friendly, as I can't get the text to "scroll" also I can't get it to go back to the point contents/index where I started when checking a list of items... Many lists aren't interactive, and thus are basically worthless.2) If I could find a way to do it, I'd ask for my money back... as I bought this book on Kindle, so that I wouldn't have another book on my bookshelf, but the bookshelf is where a paper copy is going to be... as I can at least tab and mark it up. In the end, I did get my money refunded and bought the paper edition.3) For the price, and the wait, I thought that it would be awesome and easy to use, but it isn't.4) I'm not a happy camper with the Kindle edition!!!

Its bible only looked few minutes before i get into it its ggod print and the flovour of its writting is good recomended

Was a present for my daughter very informative

I bought 16 Study Bibles of various kind to used in a large group study where everyone used a different study bible and we study together and share the collective wisdom we glean with each other, from each source.This bible's notes were serious lacking compared to other Study Bibles. Just not many of them, and lacked much depth.GET THE IGNATIUS CATHOLIC Study Bible instead. It is only the New Testament. However, it is hands down a much better Study Bible, with so many more useful notes, and greater depth of commentary too..This was just a waste of money, most versus have no commentary.

I read this in parallel to reading the old testament using A Catholic Introduction to the Bible: The Old Testament, from Ignatius Press by Brant Pitre and John Bergsma. They are recommended with each other when you look them up. It was a bit of over kill. Even for someone who spend 20 years as an undergraduate in University. When I read this book again it will be just by itself and not in conjunction with another intense resource.As mentioned, I spent the better part of 20 years in University. I hold a Religious studies degree with specialization in Roman Catholic Thought. This book would have been an amazing resource during my university career. I attended St Jerome’s University at the University of Waterloo, there were three other Church collages and the Religious Studies and Theology Departments spanned the 4 collages and faculty at main campus. This book would have been great for some of my essays, especially for Professors from other denominations.I do not fully agree with all the modern biblical scholarship. But enjoy reading about it. This is the third edition of the Catholic Study Bible and numerous scholars have contributed to this volume and the previous editions. The first section of the book is general articles and introductions. Then there is section on each of the areas of the bible. Followed by an overview article on each book, then a section by section breakdown of each book. And then we have the actual bible.In this volume they have a section called ‘Biblical Novellas’, which is comprised of Tobit, Judith, Ester, First and Second Maccabees. I enjoyed this section immensely. Both in the history and overview and in the reading of the books themselves.This is not my favorite study bible, but it is in the top 5. It is a very solid resource for academic work or personal study. I am glad to have read it, will read it again, and very happy to have it on my biblical studies shelf.

A number of American reviewers have complained about the poor quality of the binding - and unfortunately I have to echo their criticism. The last 32 pages of my copy simply fell out. This was my reward for spending the extra money for a hardcover. I ran into similar problems with my copy of the fourth edition of the Oxford Bible Atlas. This is simply unacceptable. OUP needs a new Quality Control department.