Who hasn’t had the experience of being moved or puzzled by a scriptural passage and, craving greater understanding, looked with hope at the footnotes, only to find factoids that only may be of interest to footnote-writing scholars it doesn’t do much for those of us who read Scripture in the hope of encountering the living God. Before 2000, commentary in most Catholic Bibles was restricted to tiny-print footnotes consisting of cold, dry factoids of history, linguistics and biblical criticism. It’s as if we’ve jumped from an iron age to a golden one. These last two decades have seen a flowering of high-quality Catholic study Bibles designed to help the average reader understand and love the word of God.
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