The NISB also provides brief book introductions and high-level outlines, about 100 one-page excursuses complimenting the annotations, 40 pages of essays on interpretation, a glossary, and 20 pages of maps. Within these 700+ pages, you will find that the pages are divided in a way that one-half of the page is Scripture, and the other half is footnotes explaining the above Scripture.

There are study Bibles for the concordance of Holy Scripture, the Navarre Bible, New Testament, the Gospels and even study Bibles for couples and teens. Reversing to the beginning… I looked for the Imprimatur, a feature that I always look at in Catholic Books I review on this blog. Great translation and notes, but it is slow to load, has weird navigation, some content is hard to find (like book intros), no audio for the Old Testament, and get this: ABSOLUTELY NO STUDY NOTES FOR THE PSALMS. Like its predecessor, it is a non-Catholic Bible, but the “Apocrypha” section is placed in its more typical setting, between the OT and NT sections, like most “ecumenical” Bibles. I am loving this product, I shared it with my Knights of Columbus friends and I am getting great reviews back from them on this product as well.It is well set out, has a beautiful cover, and is light enough in weight to handle comfortably when reading it.

The publisher’s contribution, over and above the standard NABRE annotations, is primarily a 525-page “Reader’s Guide” section of general articles and book introductions, appended before the Biblical text. It has copious notes, explanations, historical information, and other materials to put people and events into context.Catholic or ecumenical study Bible editions are lacking for other current Catholic translations such as the RNJB, NCB, and ESV-CE, although study editions exist of the standard 66-book abridged canon ESV.