The Great Adventure/Navarre Commentary

[mopac01]

I've completed Jeff Cavins' The Great Adventure Bible study and I loved it. (http://biblestudyforcatholics.com/) On his personal site Jeff recommends Accordance (http://jeffcavins.com/home/2007/3/14/accordance-bible-software-for-the-macintosh.html) and he also appears in the list of Endorsements on the Accordance site itself. I really think it would be wonderful to do a Great Adventure module for Accordance that would link the Bible passages and Atlas pictorials with Jeff's study guide. Catholics are being lit on fire for Bible study at Jeff's seminars. What a wonderful evangelization tool such a package would be - and a wonderful complement/add on to the Catholic package Accordance already offers.

 

The other excellent Catholic resource for Bible study that I use is the Navarre Bible Commentary. However, the books covering the entire Bible are HUGE when lined up on a shelf. Again, what a wonderful addition this would make to Accordance for the Catholic Bible scholar. (http://www.scepterpublishers.org/category/?category_id=24)

 

Helen? PLEASE!!!!

[Dr. Nathan Parker]

Reviving this thread to see interest.

[jlm]

In the years since that post, the Great Adventure Catholic Bible (or just Great Adventure Bible) was published and has become the best-selling Catholic Bible. The attraction is that it helps Catholics get to know the whole of salvation history by reading a series of books. Supplementary material helps them understand what they're reading and how it fits into the overall plan. Since this is a carefully designed and colorful book to help readers follow the reading plan, some thought would have to go into how to adapt it to a format like an Accordance study Bible resource.

 

Although I wouldn't personally buy this because I'm at a more advanced level in my study of Scripture, I think it would be a good thing to have if you want to market to ordinary Catholics.

 

The base text is the Revised Standard Edition, Second Catholic Edition (RSV2CE), so that would also have to be added to Accordance: 

 

[jlm]

The Navarre Bible is a commentary that I've used regularly. There was an initial edition that had a more detailed commentary on the New Testament, and then a revised edition that shortened the New Testament commentary and provided comparable commentary on the Old Testament. The original Spanish of the revised commentary is already available for Accordance, though the module only contains the commentary on the text, and leaves out maps, introductions to individual books and groups of books, and other material. The Spanish in Accordance is what I use most frequently, also as a way to practice my Spanish. It was originally written in Castilian Spanish, but there's a versión latinoamericana now too.

 

The English translation is 8 volumes in the revised, shorter edition, with the New Testament commentary in just one of these volumes. the older New Testament commentary is 12 thinner volumes. The printed volumes include the Revised Standard Edition, Catholic Edition and the Nove Vulgata as well as the commentary.

[Michael J. Bolesta]

I am interested in the Revised Standard Version, Second Catholic Edition