Ever decide on this? I too would recommend the OSB and encourage you to dig into that tradition if you haven't already. I know you've encountered Jay Dyer, he has some decent apologetics resources. Regarding bibles, I'd stick to ones that don't pick and choose to remove books that were agreed upon by the church ecumenical councils as canonical. The commentaries of the OSB themselves don't dig too deep, but point to places where you can dig deeper.