• Actual text in English

A newly designed and typeset edition of the popular Ignatius Revised Standard Version-Catholic Edition Bible. This contemporary English translation revises archaic language of the first edition, but avoids dumbing-down the text. It retains the beauty of the RSV language that makes the Ignatius Bible such a joy to read. Now the only contemporary Catholic Bible translation in standard English is even more beautiful in word and design!

Features:

• Completely re-designed and newly typeset with 9 point font size. Wider margins and improved line spacing for comfortable reading.
• The RSV, second Catholic edition is the only Bible translation that uses standard (non-feminist) English and is in conformity with the Church's translation guidelines found in the Vatican document, Liturgiam Authenticam
• Nine reference maps in color:

  1. The Nations of Genesis Chapter 10
  2. The Exodus from Egypt
  3. The Conquest of Canaan
  4. The Kingdom Years
  5. Jerusalem - From David to Christ
  6. Palestine in Christ's Time
  7. Paul's First and Second Journeys
  8. Paul's Third and Fourth Journeys
  9. The Holy Land in Modern Times.

• Approximate dimensions: 6" x 9".
• Gold-edged pages on the leatherbound edition only.

ISBN 9780898709360