The Navarre Bible: The Letters of
Saint Paul (The Navarre Bible: New
Testament) by University of Navarre
Dig Deeper Into The Writings Of St. Paul
This book, a companion volume to Gospels and Acts, is an omnibus
edition compromising four titles in the Navarre Bible New Testament.
These are: Romans and Galatians, Corinthians, Captivity Letters
(Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon), and Thessalonians
and Pastoral Letters – all the texts directly attributed to St. Paul. Like the
Gospels and Acts, this edition contains these New Testament books and
commentary in one convenient volume.
Personal Review: The Navarre Bible: The Letters of Saint Paul
(The Navarre Bible: New Testament) by University of Navarre
I recently had to teach a class on St. Paul for my parish, and I was looking
for something to give me an overview of his letters - something that would
be concise, informative, and faithful to Paul and to Church teaching. This
collection was the answer.

The Navarre Bible - a project of the Theology Faculty of the University of
Navarre in Spain - consists of a blend of modern scholarship, writings of
the fathers and the saints, and devotional material. As such, it is perfect for
the average Catholic (or non-Catholic) who wishes to dig into the
Scriptures more deeply but doesn't want to worry about conclusions that
contradict the Church or get bogged down with scholarly debates and
technical details about form criticism, source criticism, etc. which can
detract from understanding how the text has been received in the Church
over the centuries.
This volume, which contains all 13 letters attributed to St. Paul, is a useful
collection. Along with the RSV text of the letters, it contains the Vulgate
text (included in small print in the back of the book), commentaries as
footnotes to the text, as well as generous introductions to each of the
letters and to the whole Pauline corpus. The introductions to the letters are
helpful in that they give a brief overview of the recipient of the letter as well
as an overview of the issues underlying the letter itself. The introduction to
the whole corpus allows one to put the letters in the overall context of the
life of St. Paul and his teachings. The Navarre faculty take a traditional
stance on most debatable issues, and as such some of their conclusions
go against the modern scholarly consensus, but never do they take a
position without a strong defense of it, nor do they take a position contrary
to the Church's teachings.
The Navarre Bible is offered in a variety of combinations. I personally
prefer these hard-back collections of similarly grouped books, as they are
more convenient to own than all the paper-back individual commentaries,
and more in-depth than the single New Testament collection. The Letters
of St. Paul is a fine example of first-rate scholarship, faithfulness to the
Catholic tradition, and a devotional outlook to this most important of books.
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