You need to know you help me rest at night. The lord is using you in many ways. Don't stop this work. God bless you. I know you love the word of God. Amen

Wow, this has to be BY FAR the most comprehensive discussion of the construction of a book I have ever seen on KZfaq! I'm impressed you even measures the thickness of the paper to estimate the GSM. But here's another way: multiply the area of a page in square meters by the number of sheets and divide that into the weight of the entire book in grams. The result will be the GSM of the paper. Yes, that would include the weight of the cover, binding and ink as well, but it should be very close to the true GSM of the paper.

Now that you posted the two charts separately, I was able to view them in their entirety! And save them to my desktop! I VERY much appreciate all your efforts to help me. Thanks so much!!

I was trying to decide whether to get this Bible. This was very helpful. Thank you.

Thanks for your awesome videos. I love Catholic Bibles. Greetings from Brazil

Wonderful review - really enjoyed watching and listening to this. Thank you for your work and sharing this - so appreciated ++

I'm excited to hear about the upcoming reading of St John's Gospel on your second channel!

I am appreciating and marveling at your reviews and at the same time with your explanations and every bible you present makes me want to buy them like the one you just reviewed. Congratulations and may God bless you infinitely!

Thank you Sir

Your bible reviews are the best. Thank you and peace and spiritual blessings be multiplied upon you, Jehovah Bless You.

@R Grant Jones. The Little Rock Bible is an excellent Bible. I use the New Catholic Version which came out in 2021. Love your channel and the videos! Have a great day! God bless my friend.

They mean fundamental in a different sense in the first part of that text. Leo XIII meant fundamental as in a foundation or basis if I understand correctly. I think that a better Word choice for especially certain groups of fundamentalists would be literalists because there are also varying degrees of the word fundamental based upon context.

Thanks for making these videos. Any chance you could make a video discussing a few strong combinations of bibles with companion textbooks/guides? And maybe comment on those combinations vs. a study bible like Oxford NRSV? Thanks

Good Review. I will watch it again to pick up more of the details that you were pointing out.

Thanks for another helpful vid. FWIW, I noticed from reviews and stills that the heading font and chapter number font are quite different between the New ESV standalone Apocrypha and the new ESV Bible with Apocrypha. I ordered the standalone because of price and I like the heading font better, but don't really like the cover, though not bad. To be super thorough it would be interesting to compare paper opacity/readability between the standalone and Holy Bible with Apocrypha eds. Also thanks for pointing out the differences in Tobit! I wonder if there might be any other differences in the old ESV apocrypha (lutheran ed or otherwise) and the New ESV Apocrypha or the ESV-CE Deuterocanon. (oops, I noticed youtube must've taken me to the "next video" while I was commenting on your ESV Diadem More font comparisons.

This is an excellent review as always.

I think this Bible would have been placed on the Index were that still in use today.

Thanks for this video. It looks like it has many helpful features, but I don't know why every edition of the NABRE has to have the same notes. It's not as if they defend the Catholic interpretation of scripture or explain the textual and translation choices made by the translators. I also find it objectionable that they treat the historical-critical method and conclusions as fact. I think if they are going to present those ideas, they should at least discuss the objections to them.

Great job sir.

Outstanding review as alway. The Bible is massive with a glued spine and a gigantic gutter drop, maneuvering it will be a challenge. I wonder if the imitation leather is also a glued binding. Pope Leo XIII for the win. Thanks for another great review.

The Leo episode was hilarious 😂

Biblical inerrancy is indeed a modern Evangelical Protestant innovation. But classical Christian and Jewish tradition was less strict and more fluid. After the closure of Biblical canon, in subsequent centuries, the Rabbis considered only Torah to be infallible. Prophets and Writings were considered to be inspired but less inerrant (three hierarchies of inspiration in descending order). Many discoveries (2nd & 3rd Isaiah, Torah and Pslams having multiple authors/editors) about the Biblical texts by Protestant scholars were already pointed out in formative period of Rabbinic Judaism. Oxford Jewish Study Bible has some very good essays about it. Christians also differed about the inerrant inspiration of several books of NT. The Orthodox Churches paid less importance to Revelation, and Martin Luther was not sure about the inspiration of some NT books. Also, the issue of Apocrypha book adds another layer of complexity to this question.

I hold with Pope Leo 13th These scholars are not in line with the teaching of the magisterium, nor the popes in the past nor the fathers they are not magisterial, it's their opinion. As I have said before and I say to you again your reviews are the best! 🤟

How does this compare to the Didache Bible, as far as commentary? And does this contain Catechism references like the Didache?

Dr Grant, I have a question that's not on the topic of the review of this Bible, I have a fondness for classical language, and I do listen to the King James on audio and I heard you on your new channel, here's my question if you had a choice of a modern version of the Catholic Bible which translation would you use yourself just curious ?

Who knew Karl Marx wrote Bible commentary notes back in his day. It's impressive how they seamlessly incorporate them into the rest of the text. Amazing😉

Sorry if its been asked before, but do you keep all the Bible's you review, or do you sell them on?

You mentioned that you have another channel- can you provide the name of that? Awesome video!

Those notes and essays really do seem to be a problem. Anything which isn't narrowly in 100% lockstep with their perceived vision of the author's mind must absolutely be a later interpolation by somebody else. Applying that logic, many of these scholars' own papers shouldn't be attributed to the names on them. After all, they cover different subjects and there's discernable shifts in vocabulary and perspective. Must have been a later redactor. Don't worry, though, even though we have no clue which random person wrote this down, and who changed it later, we can be absolutely certain about the dating- after all, those passages in Daniel clearly prove the author came after the "future events" it talks about. How else could he have known? But despite all that, still recite the Nicene Creed every Sunday. The books may all be late forgeries and deception, chock full of errors, and the anonymous gospel authors were so clearly wrong about so much, but the doctrines in the book are all true! Be sure to tithe in the collection plate! Notes like these have no place in a Bible for anyone who thinks God exists and he can intervene in the world. It's shameful that it can share the shelves with the Catholic Catechism. It's a shame that paperbacks of this crap are what they give to catechumens. New Atheist's Bible: Revised Edition.

Thanks again for a wonderfully informative bible review. I happen to own this bible with a leather cover. Where can I locate your translation charts? You update them periodically. I thought you made them available under the Community Tab but I cannot locate them any more. You mentioned in the video that you have another KZfaq channel. What is that called?

Is it possible to post links to the two charts in your show notes above?

Is it just me, or do lots of Catholic bibles have glued bindings, even the non economy ones?

What's your denomination? Or the one you feel closer to.

I hate single column. 😢

Hold on....dating Daniel to the 2nd century BC would make a third of it a prophetic fraud? The prophecies with regards to the 5 kingdoms. He would be prophesying about the greeks a full century after it happened.

A word about the Catholic approach to scripture. There are those of us in the Church that believe that there are 2 churches within the One Church. One of them being the end times counter Church or the "conciliar church". Traditional Catholics still believe in the Genesis account of creation and therefore hold a "fundamentalist view". We believe that if the first Chapters of Genesis are not actual accounts then Jesus becomes unnecessary because original sin wouldn't exist. So if you knee cap Christianity in the first book of the Bible the whole thing becomes like any other religion.

Excellent review, sir. You showed remarkable restraint. The NABRE is the English Bible with the most episcopal approbations that has been found by Rome to be entirely unfit for use in public prayer and worship. In my opinion, it is a horrible, no good, very bad Bible. The notes represent the very best of mid century modern scholarship that heavily relies on Critical Biblical Scholarship that struggles to make theological conclusions. Little Rock notes come from an attempt to produce a Bible study in the 1970’s that could engage faithful Catholics. In so doing, they use Bible notes that consider every scholarship but it’s own to be lacking. Unfortunately, now the valiant effort, once guided by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Little Rock, Arkansas, has been sold to Liturgical Press. Many thousands of Boomer Catholics have participated in Little Rock study groups, the strength of which relied on small groups of faithful and prayerful Christians studying God’s Word. Today, thankfully, there are many alternatives for the faithful Catholic seeking to study the Bible.

Quite bizarre...

I have a Catholic Family Bible, a large edition, bound in genuine white leather, which was produced as a Catholic version of the sort of King James Family Bible found in many homes at the time. Since the translation of the new Confraternity Bible (so called because it was arranged by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine) was not complete, it uses a mixture of translations. The Confraternity text is used for Genesis to Ruth, the Psalms and the New Testament. The Douay-Challoner translation is used for the remaining books of the Old Testament. It was published by the Good Counsel Publishing Co., Inc. of Chicago. In due course, the translation of the Confraternity Bible was fully completed and this was published in, I think, about 1973. The New American Bible is simply a revision of the Confraternity Bible. It is considered a reliable translation. It is not used in England, mainly because the language is a little too “transatlantic” and the 1966 translation of the Jerusalem Bible has been used in the Lectionary in England, however, this will be replaced, in Advent this year, by the English Standard Version (Catholic Edition). Until now, for teaching and study purposes, the English Church has used the Second Catholic Edition of the Revised Standard Version, since the Jerusalem Bible is not considered to be a direct, literal translation from the original languages. There are rumours that the translators used the very popular original French version of the Jerusalem Bible, translating this into English, while comparing their translation, of course, with the original texts (this has never been established and is denied by the translators!). The New Jerusalem Bible was not considered adequate by the English Bishops Conference and the Revised New Jerusalem Bible was considered even less satisfactory. However, in my view, the original 1966 translation of the Jerusalem Bible, in the version with the full set of translators’ notes, is quite reliable. I prefer reading the Knox translation myself, since it is a direct translation from the Vulgate made entirely by Monsignor Knox himself, without any assistance. Therefore, it does not read as if it has been put together by a committee and the style is uniform from start to finish. As to reliability, it is only as reliable as the Vulgate from which it was translated, of course. I have the three volume version with a full set of translator’s notes, which make it reliable, since Monsignor Knox does point out where the Latin text departs from the original Greek or Hebrew and he also makes it clear where he has used rather more colloquial language in translating from the Latin, although he never departs from the original meaning of the text. However, the language which Monsignor Knox uses is that of an English public school boy of the 1940s, which, of course, is what he was! The English Church did intend to use the Knox translation for the Lectionary, however, the instructions issued by Pope Pius XII in 1943 (in Divino Afflante Spiritu) made this impossible and the 1966 translation of the Jerusalem Bible was used as more closely adhering to the terms of that instruction. However, the Knox translation was used in preparing the new Breviary (‘the Divine Office”) for some of the passages of Scripture. Also, the new Breviary included some texts using the New English Bible (a Presbyterian translation) and the RSV, of course.

Highly suspect and dangerous to the faith in my Catholic opinion (the intro, essays, notes, etc I mean - not the actual translation, which I actually kind of enjoy). I returned mine after one night of reading. 🤮 Would recommend faithful Catholics look at the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible, the Didiche Bible, or the Word on Fire Bible instead.