New Jerome Biblical Commentary from Catholics scolars ONLY?

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Hi all,

I am heard that "The New Jerome Biblical Commentary" by Raymond Edward Brown (Editor), Joseph A. Fitzmyer (Contributor), Ronald E. Murphy (Editor), Roland Edmund Murphy (Editor) were prepared by Catholic scolars\.

However, when I checked, I found out that two of them, Ronald E. Murphy, Roland Edmund Murphy, also participated in editing other Protestant commentary on the bible such as the New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha and the Word Biblical Commentary\.

May anybody confirm to me that these two authors are really catholic???

Thanks a lot for your attention.

M.X.

-- May Xanh (thienthan70@hotmail.com), February 25, 2003

Answers

I think you are a little confused about the NJBC which is a masterful one-volume commentary (Roman Catholic) edited by Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, and Roland E. Murphy (eds), THE NEW JEROME BIBLICAL COMMENTARY (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990).

There were about 70 contributors of articles and three editors (the same editors as in the 1968 predecessor known simply as the JEROME BIBLICAL COMMENTARY). Raymond Brown was the editor of Topical articles, Joseph Fitzmyer was editor of NT commentary articles, and Roland Murphy was editor of the OT commentary articles. All three of the editors were in fact Roman Catholic priests: Brown a Sulpician (S.S.), Fitzmyer a Jesuit(S.J.) and Murphy a Carmelite (O.Carm).

[I have no idea were the RONALD E. Murphy name comes from.]

Frs. Brown and Murphy have since died, Brown in 1998 and Murphy last year (2002). Both Fr. Brown and Fr. Fitzmyer had served on the Pontifical Biblical Commission and Brown was serving his second term at the time of his death. All three had been active in ecumenical, scholarly concerns. Frs. Brown and Fitzmyer both have written several volumes of the ANCHOR BIBLE commentary series and, as was noted, Fr. Roland Murphy had contributed to the New Oxford Annotated Bible and one of the volumes in the WORD BIBLICAL COMMENTARY.

-- Edward Pothier (EdwardPothier@aol.com), February 25, 2003.


That particular edition of the Bible, the New Oxford Annotated Bible, is a favorite of mine, so I'll note that it is meant to be an ecumenical Bible, including all scriptures acceptable to Catholics, and that Catholic scholars did participate in its translation, commentary and editing.

Otherwise, it wouldn't be very ecumenical.

-- Origen (origenmoscow@yahoo.com), February 26, 2003.


Thanks a lot for your information

God blesses you all :)

-- May Xanh (thienthan70@hotmail.com), February 26, 2003.


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