>>>>>>And then there is the modern scholarship such as has been expressed in NAB study helps and certain notes for decades, which many Catholics oppose, as do conservative Prots against the liberal scholarship going under that name.
The translation is flat, the footnotes are atrocious (some would say heretical), however, the cross references are useful.
I personally prefer the RSV for study and the Douay for general reading purposes. If I want to go back to the original language, I like using Perseus.
I was not aware of that but this a little informative:
It is not really helpful for Bible study per se. It is helpful for comparative literature reasons. In other words, it can be helpful for looking up how words are used in other bodies of classical literature. You have access to the Liddell-Scott lexicon. You can access the Symth classical grammar which being old still is fairly standard in scholarship. You can access the Vulgate and click on words to get their morphologies if you're big into Latin. In other words, Perseus is not really a Bible study site, but it can be used to increase your knowledge of the Greek language and grammar and maybe even just some of the thought world of ancient times.
Here is a link to the the material that Perseus hosts http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/...on:Greco-Roman
If what you want to do is track down words or citations from BDAG or Kittel you can do this via Perseus rather easily as long as Perseus has the source. Perseus is not housing the Loeb Classical Library online. However, they do have many of the older Loebs online. They do not have every single Greek (or Roman author), but they do have many of the major ones. This would not replace a university/seminary library, but it can help ease the pain if you move far away from one. Generally if you're looking something up from BDAG or Kittel they will give you a line or book reference to the Greek work. All you would do is follow this up through Perseus. If you're looking for every Greek work written, you'd have to move away from Perseus and start eyeing the TLG (http://www.tlg.uci.edu/) but now you're talking big time money. - Michael Hanel; http://www.bibleworks.com/forums/showthread.php?1157-Using-Perseus-in-Bible-Study