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The Navarre Bible #5
The Navarre Bible: Wisdom Books
This volume, which follows the pattern of the highly successful Navarre Bible New Testament, consists of the Revised Standard Version and the New Vulgate with a Commentary by members of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Navarre, Spain. One of the most striking aspects of both these books is the use of poetry. Although poetic language is to be found in many Old Testament books, it is the predominant form in these ones. The book of Psalms and the Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon) contain lyric poetry, whereas the other books consist mainly of proverbs or aphorisms in verse form, and wisdom poems in varying lengths. This is primarily why the Psalms and the Song are described as poetical books, and the others as wisdom books. This volume also contains notes, introductions, and Latin. The editors' notes, which are rarely very technical, are designed to elucidate the spiritual and theological message of the Bible.
560 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2004
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59 books13 followersThe University of Navarra is a private university located on the southeast border of Pamplona, Spain. It was founded in 1952 by Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, the founder of Opus Dei, as a corporate work of the apostolate of Opus Dei.
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May 9, 2025
How do you write a review on Sacred Scripture? It is beyond me. I will simply say that the University of Navarra does a beautiful job providing exegesis of these sacred texts. I am just sorry that I got bogged down at the last due to other books. 😟
BOOK OF JOB: The best part of this book, of course, is when God speaks to Job. I am going to use that for my personal meditation for the next few days. His words are like poetry. The advantage to this Navarre version of the Bible is the commentary which really opened up this book for me. I thought I knew THE BOOK OF JOB fairly well, but I discovered how much I didn’t. The most helpful part for me was learning why and how what Job’s friends said to him was bad advice. Recently a well-intentioned person tried to convince me that Job’s ‘friends’ really were friends. I had believed that the advice they gave Job was not true, but beyond that I didn’t know exactly what was wrong with their advice. Reading this helped me understand why they were so wrong as well as being very poor friends to poor Job. On to PROVERBS!
BOOK OF JOB: The best part of this book, of course, is when God speaks to Job. I am going to use that for my personal meditation for the next few days. His words are like poetry. The advantage to this Navarre version of the Bible is the commentary which really opened up this book for me. I thought I knew THE BOOK OF JOB fairly well, but I discovered how much I didn’t. The most helpful part for me was learning why and how what Job’s friends said to him was bad advice. Recently a well-intentioned person tried to convince me that Job’s ‘friends’ really were friends. I had believed that the advice they gave Job was not true, but beyond that I didn’t know exactly what was wrong with their advice. Reading this helped me understand why they were so wrong as well as being very poor friends to poor Job. On to PROVERBS!
November 30, 2025
Very handy resource. It did a good job at resisting the temptation of flooding the text with quotes by Saint Thomas, though it might not have been as successful when it comes to quoting Fides et Ratio. The style of connecting to Magisterial documents is very appropriate.
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