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Posted: June 21 2014 at 4:33pm | IP Logged Quote pumpkinmom
I'm planning on having my 10 yo boy read through the Old Testament independently this upcoming school year and wanted some suggestion on what to use. We have The New Catholic Picture Bible on hand, but I have read that to him in previous years. I also have The Children's Bible by Golden and we have never used it. I'm fine with using that, but I wanted to see if anyone had something better to suggest.

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Posted: June 21 2014 at 4:47pm | IP Logged Quote CrunchyMom
My oldest has been reading Hurlburt's Story of the Bible for the past couple of years. It is not Catholic, but it retells the narrative of the Old Testament so thoroughly and delightfully.I think he enjoys reading it.

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Posted: June 25 2014 at 6:19pm | IP Logged Quote JennGM
My 10 year old son has been reading the actual Bible for a few years. We use the Ignatius Bible RSV-CE 2nd edition.

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Posted: June 25 2014 at 7:41pm | IP Logged Quote CrunchyMom
Even the Old Testament, Jenn? I find the histories are so much easier to get through and understand the lineages and such when summarized. It just presents a clearer big picture and helps identify the key players. I do use other sources for the New Testament and plan for ds to use his Bible (the version you have recommendedhere and in the past) more for New Testament readings this year as well as the Mater Amabilis recommendation Pearls of Peace.

But even the Hurlburt version would be hard to get through in a year unless read daily as a major focus in school work.

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Posted: June 25 2014 at 10:19pm | IP Logged Quote ekbell
My ten year old dd will be reading from the Bible for Young Catholics over the next year.

It introduces every book in the bible giving paraphrases of the historical books and at least a small taste of the other books. It also has a useful chart giving the historical periods, persons, events, rough dates and the corresponding books of the Bible plus parent/teacher helps (which include suggested readings from the Family Bible - ones which tie the Old and New Testament together).

She will also be receiving an Ignatius Bible but I think it will help for her to have read the paraphrase first so that she knows the 'plot' so to speak.
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