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| | Description | Complete Old Testament provides you the English (RSV) and Latin (New Vulgate) texts and Catholic commentary applicable to daily life. Commentary provided by the Faculty of the University of Navarre and is drawn from Church documents and writings from the Doctors of the Church. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | Navarre | | Publisher: | Scepter | | Publication Date: | 2008 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 1 reviews |
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A Work of Art - Mostly Dec 23, 2009
This set of 7 volumes of the Old Testament is truly spectacular - the quality of the books themselves, and the quality of the commentaries are outstanding. The formatting of these volumes is similar to the New Testament single-volume work recently released, and if you're interested in those layout details, see my review on the Navarre New Testament. These works of the Old Testament are smaller in size and a bit easier to handle.
On the commentary itself, I found the Wisdom books to be especially insightful. This being a Catholic work, the full canon of the Church is represented. When I read Sirach, along with the accompanying commentary, I recognized the first whispers of the Gospel of John. Sirach was written in the 2nd century B.C. during a time when Greek thought was on the ascent in the Jewish world. The author firmly stresses the need to adhere to Jewish Wisdom as revealed by God. The personification of Wisdom in Sirach (also found in Proverbs), foreshadows the personification of the Word: there at the beginning, eternal with the Father before the foundations of the world.
Sirach is on the threshold of what is to be revealed in a few short generations with the coming of Christ: that the Wisdom of God is in fact the Word of God. And the Word became flesh. The prologue to John's gospel comes even more alive (for me, at least) with this understanding. I could imagine that Sirach, on meeting the Lord face to face and having all revealed, would have said "but of course... that is what I was faintly seeing... now it all makes sense." The commentary was helpful in pointing out those similarities, allowing one to make that connection, if one is so inclined; for myself, I can't see how any believer can read Sirach and the supporting commentary and come away thinking it was not inspired. It is just too much 'of a piece' with all that was written before, and all that would come after.
I include my personal understanding in order to point out to anyone reading this review what, for me, is the value of this set: It is the Word of God, enforced by the Tradition of the Church, guided by its Magisterium. For I believe that God not only inspired the original authors of his Word, but also those trusted with preaching it and communicating it. For many can take His Word and twist it to fit their own meanings and their own agendas. It is vitally important that the Holy Spirit guide all in their reading of Scripture, and I believe one of the ways He does this is to have bright, incisive minds produce inspired guidance. The Navarre Old Testament is, in this sense, truly inspired.
Lastly, I do want to point out two areas where this Bible does fall a bit short. The first is that there are too many typos in this set. A couple here and there is no big deal, but spelling, missing words, some half-sentences, mismatched commentary-verse numbers, and misplaced headings. I hope these get fixed in later editions.
The second area is in the commentary, and this is more of a personal taste issue. I abhor the use of phrases like "he or she", "his or her", "humanity" etc. where words like "man", "his", or "mankind" will do. Why is this done in a work where Tradition is so heavily stressed? No one would dare think of mangling something as simple as a song like we do our sacred tradition. You don't here lyrics like "He or She loves you yeah, yeah, yeah" on the radio, because it sounds silly. Why do we then do this in works where it should be understood that "to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them" (Genesis 1:27)?
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