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MrsFrozen

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I am buying a NRSV Bible and I would also like to purchase a concordance. I'm having trouble, because I have a sneaking suspicion that many of the concordances on Amazon.com don't include the deuterocanonicals. Can anyone recommend a useful (and inexpensive!) concordance? Thanks and God bless!

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MrsFrozen,

Since you have the NRSV, there is an excellent concordance, the "NRSV Concordance" edited by Kohlenberger which has all the deuterocanonicals and even books considered apocryphal by Catholics, but read by the Orthodox (e.g. 3 and 4 Maccabees, etc).

It's a huge FAT book, and when I got mine 6 years ago I must have paid less than $20 for it. I was surprised by that, but I reckon it was being subsidised by the Protestant organisation that ran the shop (which was somewhere in Yorkshire, UK). It doesn't appear on Amazon as available, but some 2nd hand shops may have it, Bibliofind etc. Good luck!

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Thanks so much!!

I went ahead and purchased the one at Amazon, but Adeodatus, yours sounds amesome! I am going to keep my eye out for it.

God bless! :)

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homeschoolmom

Pardon ignorance, what is a concordance?

It's a reference book that helps you look up verses. Let's say, for example, you're wondering where Jesus says, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life." You go to your handy dandy concordance and look up one of the key words... (let's say "way") It will show you most of the verses (or all if you have a really good concordance) that contain "way" with a little context. "I am the way and the truth..." Your concordance needs to match the version you use.

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goldenchild17

Also some other nice ones, "Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture", that's very good, I just got it. It's based on the Douay-Rhiems version. Also the Navarre Bible is good, I don't think they finished all the books yet, though.

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popestpiusx

mother,
Are the Navarre and Ignatius RSV's new translations or are they just new editions of what they had before?

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Typically if it has new before it, it will have inclusive language. E.G. NRSV and NJB

The New American is not influenced that way but it still is a wee bit flimsy.

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popestpiusx

I'll stick with my Douay. Though I don't mind the RSV to much for study purposes. I've never heard of the RSV_CE though.

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