This week I interviewed Mark Brumley, president of Ignatius Press about the new Didache Bible. Below is the transcript of the show along with links to everything we talked about.

Be sure to read my review of the Didache Bible as well.

Transcript

Welcome to the Behind the Catholic Counter podcast.  I’m Ian Rutherford president of Aquinasandmore.com. I interview catholic authors, publishers and manufacturers to give you the latest news about great new catholic book and gifts. You can listen to this and past episodes at http://www.aquinasandmore.com/podcast.

Ian: Today, I am joined by Mark Brumley, president of Ignatius Press and we're going to talk about the brand new Didache Bible that Ignatius Press has just released. Thank you for joining me on the show today Mark.

Mark: I am happy to be here.

Ian: Before we start on the Didache Bible, I know Ignatius Press has a lot of different Bible study options, can you tell us, kind of an overview of what Ignatius Press has to offer?

Mark: Well of course we have lots of books on the Bible that kind of thing, but for the purposes of Bible study, getting into the text in detail rather than an overview of that, we have the Ignatius Study Bible which right now we have all of the New Testament part of the done, we have it in a single volume for the New Testament and then we have individual books for the Old Testament. We also have the Ignatius Lighthouse Bible App which has the biblical text and then you can order the study Bible notes as an accompaniment on that, so kind of wide-ranged of resources there along with Steve Ray's Footprints of God Series which is really for the most part, a kind of intense Bible study, where's he takes you to the Bible lands and it goes to the biblical text and looks it’s some of the biblical figures.

Ian: With this wide range of Bible studies, how did the Didache project originate as a new Bible project for Ignatius?

Mark: Well it's something we partnered with Midwest Theological Forum on. They are Catholic Publishers as well and we've been in conversation with Father James Socias who has been the executive director of Midwest for a number of years, he really likes the Ignatius Bible translation which is a form of the RSV, the Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition, we call ours the RSV second catholic edition because we've gone through and made some modifications of the standard catholic RSV text that conform it more closely with the liturgy and things of that sort. Well Father Socias really loves that translation and he has for a number of years had a desire to have a Bible or biblical text accompanied by notes based upon the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Then Cardinal Ratzinger,

Ian: It's been a while.

Mark: Pope Benedict, had said many years ago that he thought the Catechism of the Catholic Church was a choice commentary on the Bible. Now he has a particular sense in which he says that and we'll probably want to come back to that but, then Cardinal Ratzinger thought that the catechism was an excellent way of, kind of understanding the biblical text to bring a unity between the Faith that is expressed in the biblical text and the Faith as it has come to be understood, come to be lived and celebrated in the liturgy, lived in the moral life and prayed, in our life of prayer expressed in the catechism. So, what the Didache Bible does, is it brings together the biblical text and elements drawn from the Catechism of the Catholic Church to enriched the reader's experience of reading the Bible in light of the teaching of the catechism.

Ian: How does the catechism get laid out as part of this, worked into this Bible format?

Mark: There were two or three ways,