I’ve always
lamented that there does not seem to exist a good one-volume study edition of
my favorite (because I think it’s the most accurate) translation of the Bible,
the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSV-CE). There are, of course, the multivolume series
of the Navarre Bible (with their inclusion of the Vulgate Latin and annotations
based on the Fathers, Doctors, and Magisterium of the Church) as well as the
Ignatius Catholic Study Bible (similar to the Navarre Bible, but no Vulgate and
annotations based more on modern scholarship).
Compilation volumes comprising various individual volumes of both
Navarre and ICSB have appeared (in the latter case, mainly a one-volume New Testament
which I have in the Kindle ebook edition), but neither is published in a
one-volume full Old and New Testament
edition. All existing one-volume RSV-CEs
have hitherto kept annotations to a bare minimum, mainly an occasional translation
note and cross-references on the same page with some not very extensive “Explanatory
Notes” relegated to a few pages at the end of the Old and New Testaments
respectively. That’s the case with both
of the RSV-CEs that I own:
