New American Bible Revised Edition Concise Concordance

Perfect for a quick reference for help to find an appropriate verse and when help is needed with a specific topic.Helpful with making a prayer bible.

For those who may not know, a concordance is essentially an index for the bible. This is not an exhaustive concordance that lists every word of the bible and where it can be found. Rather it is concise. The decision making is highly competent, and I doubt anyone using this concordance would find it lacking. It is helpful for both scholars and lay people when reading the bible.This is the concordance for the NAB (New American Bible), the most common translation in use for Roman Catholics in the United States. There is also a concise concordance available for the NRSV by the same editor. I have them both. Both are excellent.I would love a good concordance for the RSV (my personal favorite translation), but thus far have been unable to find one. If anyone knows of one, please free to leave a comment letting me know where I can get a good concordance for the RSV.[Added in July 2007]To those who may be interested, I just found a concordance for the RSV that looks good: The Oxford Concise Concordance to the Revised Standard Version of the Holy Bible

This is a reasonable concordance but is not great. It points the way to many words/concepts but misses others to the same words. If you need a complete concordance buy the kindle version of NABRE Bible and use the search feature.

I purchased the hard cover version and upon opening the cover, I hear a somewhat distressing ripping sound - oh the book was pretty much brand new (despite being purchased as a used book) so I had to break it in! Scary, I was afraid I was tearing the book! :)It's very well done. Tight, crisp binding, large enough I don't need to squint at the printing, and appears to have everything I was looking for at the moment (although, as others have mentioned, it is a concise concordance, not an exhaustive.) Basically, like having an abridged dictionary versus having the entire Oxford English Dictionary (the one that's almost bigger than my bed :)Should be quite handy as I do research. BTW, although this book is keyed for NABRE,it can be used with other bible versions (more or less, unless they diverge significantly, such as the Douay-Rheims, perhaps.)Good value for a bible research tool.

I teach a Bible Study class, most recently we have looked at selecting a scriptural passage pertinent to our petitions and creating a prayer of our own based on the scriptural passage. This particular Concordance is large enough to easily read, complete enough to be helpful and compact enough not to weigh heavily to tote around. I use several different reference books. This one appealed to all the individuals in my class and they purchased copies for themselves. They will use them. I think this is one you should consider buying and using. I also have different age groups in the class and they all liked this one.

some concordances listed as complete actually list each word in the Bible, including "the"!! So I decided to get a concise concordance. I have seen some that were wonderful, but this is not one of them. It is a bit too concise, leaving out many personages, events, and subjects, and covering some subjects rather scantily.

It doesn't contain any extra information. It's just a concise concordance to the NABRE--which is what I expected when I bought it. It in no way compares to, say, Strong's Expanded Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (which is for the ESV/KJV of the bible, not the NABRE version).

I have been looking for a Catholic Bible Concordance for some time and to find one for the NABRE edition was just what I was looking for. I bought a second copy for my son and his family. I highly recommend this concordance!

Just what I needed.Looked like new. Good price. Will recommend to friends looking for similar product. Now what I need is the version of the American Bible to which the Concordance corresponds.