Reddit reviews Index Lectionum: A Comparative Table of Readings for the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Rite (Lectionary Study Aids) (Volume 1)

> Is there any book that discusses ideological bias in the revised Lectionary?

Hopefully this doesn't count as excessive self-promotion, but Dr Peter Kwasniewski wrote the foreword "Not Just More Scripture, But Different Scripture" to my book Index Lectionum: A Comparative Table of Readings for the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Rite. Dr Kwasniewski's foreword can be found at https://www.academia.edu/25621308/Not_Just_More_Scripture_But_Different_Scripture. For those who think they might find the book useful, it is available from the North American and European Amazon websites (USA here).

The foreword touches on some aspects of this question, but as far as I am aware there is no book-length treatment of this issue. I think that this is, in part, because there is a good amount of spade-work to do before the question can be properly answered. For example, it is easy to point to particular Sundays and say "See! There's ideological bias there!" In doing this, one might be right, but it seems of limited use without an attempt to put this into the wider context of the whole Sunday OF lectionary - let alone the process of the reform of the lectionary itself, its various stages, what the reformers themselves said about their work (i.e. in the schemata of the Consilium), etc.

In other words, there's a lot of work yet to be done before the question of possible ideological bias can be answered to any degree. Some people have done and are doing some of this work, and this is very valuable, but the definitive, academic critique of the OF lectionary is, IMO, yet to be written.

(I'd love to be the person to write it - but as I don't work in academia and thus have to do this sort of thing in my spare time, this is definitely a long-term project for me!)

This might have some history in it.

Found it! Index Lectionum: A Comparative Table of Readings for the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Roman Rite

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1530230721/ shows how the readings correspond between the EF (1962) and OF - which may help cross referencing propers also.