Prophets I: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Baruch (Liguori Catholic Bible Study)

This book is good to summarize the content of those Bible books, but to recommend as a "study" book, no. I think a "study" book is an analysis or investigation and this does not have it.

The intro is awesome, both on the prophets in general and in each prophet in particular. The commentaries on the specific verses are also great!

Not really what I was looking for.

Very inspirational

very good

Excellent

The Liguori Catholic Bible Study is a series of twenty-one titles in English introducing each book of the Bible. The Liguori website indicates that many of the titles are also available in Spanish. The series “is intended for group and individual study and prayer. …Each lesson in this series contains a section to help groups study, reflect, pray, and share biblical reflections. Except for Lesson 1, each lesson also has a second section for individual study.” (p. 8) Scripture passages are taken from the New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE). (Although this fine translation is still seen by some as a newcomer, it was approved by the American bishops in 2010 and released in the spring of 2011.)The series devotes three volumes to the prophets. The prophets covered in this volume “were dealing mainly with the era of the Babylonian invasion of Judah, the exile, and the period after the exile.” (p. 12) “Each lesson begins with an overview that puts the Scripture passages in context.” (ibid.) So the author divvies up the chapters of Isaiah into the now-common First, Second, and Third Isaiah and very briefly explains why he does so. Similarly, the author states, in a single sentence and without further explication, that “although the poems [of Lamentations] were once believed to have been written by Jeremiah, this seems unlikely.” (p. 131)Be aware that if the group study approach is taken, not all Scripture will be covered. For instance, the group would cover only chapters 40-42 of Second Isaiah; chapter 43-55 are left for individual study. So the servant of the Lord’s oft-quoted well-trained tongue (Is 50:4) (which becomes a well-informed tongue in the commentary) will escape the attention of the group. (p. 60)If one wants and is satisfied with a quick-and-easy, once-over-lightly tour of these prophets, this book will be quite serviceable. Will “participants will have a firm grasp” of these prophets and have become “more cognizant of the spiritual nourishment these books offer”? (p. 12) Probably the latter more than the former; some more earnest inquirers will be left with the sense that there’s a good deal more to be had.