Best Catholic Bible?

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Hi all! I hope I’m posting this in the right place. I was wondering if anyone could share their opinion of the best Catholic Bible translation with me?

I have one called The New American Bible, but I’m not sure if this is best. Someone told me the Douay-Rheims version is good. What do you think?
 
dove51 said:
Hi all! I hope I’m posting this in the right place. I was wondering if anyone could share their opinion of the best Catholic Bible translation with me?

I have one called The New American Bible, but I’m not sure if this is best. Someone told me the Douay-Rheims version is good. What do you think?
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I really enjoy the Douay-Rheims version, if you don’t have a copy you should definitely pick one up.
 
dove51 said:
Hi all! I hope I’m posting this in the right place. I was wondering if anyone could share their opinion of the best Catholic Bible translation with me?

I have one called The New American Bible, but I’m not sure if this is best. Someone told me the Douay-Rheims version is good. What do you think?
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Get the Haydock Bible. It is the Douay-Rhiems version with tons of footnotes. The footnotes are usually about half of the page, if not more. There’s so many footnotes that there are two separate volumes: One for the Old Testament and one for the New. The footnotes are often quotes from the Church Fathers on particular verses. The translation is great (since it is the Douay-Rhiems) and the footnotes are 100% orthodox.

In my opinion, that is the best Bible to have.
 
I like the Douay Rheims–it’s in older English (thee and thou, etc.) and it has very helpful footnotes. The NAB is not *bad *per se, but the language sometimes comes across as casual, and the footnotes tend to range from weak, to practically denying the faith. There’s also a couple places where the translator had a couple of possible options and went with less than Catholic one’s–like calling Mary “highly favored” instead of “full of grace” (who changes the words to the Hail Mary?!?–the lectionary used at Mass, while using the NAB generally, has rejected the weird translation for the traditional "full of grace.)

I also hear the RSV-Catholic Edition is really good.

Here is the RSV-CE online:

geocities.com/sacra_scriptura/eng_bible_index.html

and here is the Douay Rheims so you can see what they are like:

drbo.org

Note: in the DRV the Psalms are numbered slightly differnently and some books’ names are different because they are named as they are in the Latin Vulgate.
 
I like the Navarre Bible. The text is latin and the new revised standard version. The latin is the official bible of the Church. The commentary is excellent.

Several different editions are available.

🙂
 
dove51 said:
Hi all! I hope I’m posting this in the right place. I was wondering if anyone could share their opinion of the best Catholic Bible translation with me?

I have one called The New American Bible, but I’m not sure if this is best. Someone told me the Douay-Rheims version is good. What do you think?
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Douay-Rheims Version is the best Bible out there.👍
 
Pax_et_Caritas said:
Get the Haydock Bible. It is the Douay-Rhiems version with tons of footnotes. The footnotes are usually about half of the page, if not more. There’s so many footnotes that there are two separate volumes: One for the Old Testament and one for the New. The footnotes are often quotes from the Church Fathers on particular verses. The translation is great (since it is the Douay-Rhiems) and the footnotes are 100% orthodox.

In my opinion, that is the best Bible to have.
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I agree, I have it, its great (expensive, but worth it).
 
Is the Jerusalem Bible any good? I opened one up the other day and saw that it used “Yaweh” instead of “LORD” and I liked that.
 
Hijikata said:
I really enjoy the Douay-Rheims version, if you don’t have a copy you should definitely pick one up.
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I took my family out to a second handstore (thrift store) today to look for some Bibles.(I keep having to give them away)

By husband looked through the shelves while I was waiting for our daughter (in the restroom) I came out and asked “Did you find anything?”

He said “No theres nothing good.”

So I decided to look at what else they might have.

Guess what I found?

An Ignatius Press Catholic Bible hardback $2.99!

I showed it to him and asked him “Whats wrong with this one?”

He looked at me and said 'That was not there!" he laughed and just shook his head.

We have been experiencing some wonderful things by the Grace of God! So his reaction was funny.

I continued looking and I thought the shelves need to be straightened. (No I don’t have a problem. Being neat is not a problem.) So while straightening the shelf I saw a black book medium in size and I picked it up. It had HOLY BIBLE in gold with a cross on it. I thought King James Vesion. Guess what,nope!

It was a Douay-Rheims Version still in the plastic!!!:dancing:

the original price? $35.99!!!

I got it for $6.99!!!
:extrahappy: :extrahappy: :extrahappy:

OOH and when I showed it to my husband?

He just kept laughing and shaking his head saying that wasn’t there!

:gopray2: Praise be to God:gopray2:
 
fellowChristian said:
I took my family out to a second handstore (thrift store) today to look for some Bibles.(I keep having to give them away)

By husband looked through the shelves while I was waiting for our daughter (in the restroom) I came out and asked “Did you find anything?”

He said “No theres nothing good.”

So I decided to look at what else they might have.

Guess what I found?

An Ignatius Press Catholic Bible hardback $2.99!

I showed it to him and asked him “Whats wrong with this one?”

He looked at me and said 'That was not there!" he laughed and just shook his head.

We have been experiencing some wonderful things by the Grace of God! So his reaction was funny.

I continued looking and I thought the shelves need to be straightened. (No I don’t have a problem. Being neat is not a problem.) So while straightening the shelf I saw a black book medium in size and I picked it up. It had HOLY BIBLE in gold with a cross on it. I thought King James Vesion. Guess what,nope!

It was a Douay-Rheims Version still in the plastic!!!:dancing:

the original price? $35.99!!!

I got it for $6.99!!!
:extrahappy: :extrahappy: :extrahappy:

OOH and when I showed it to my husband?

He just kept laughing and shaking his head saying that wasn’t there!

:gopray2: Praise be to God:gopray2:
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Wow! Nice, I can’t believe you got it for so cheap. I bought mine online at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Store for $ 34.99. Anyways, congrats on a great purchase!
 
Pax_et_Caritas said:
Get the Haydock Bible. It is the Douay-Rhiems version with tons of footnotes. The footnotes are usually about half of the page, if not more. There’s so many footnotes that there are two separate volumes: One for the Old Testament and one for the New. The footnotes are often quotes from the Church Fathers on particular verses. The translation is great (since it is the Douay-Rhiems) and the footnotes are 100% orthodox.

In my opinion, that is the best Bible to have.
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I’ll third this sentiment. I have about 5 different bible translations I read devotionally and for other various reasons. However I always refer everything back to the Douay and Fr. Haydocks commentary.

As another poster mentioned, the Haydock Douay-Rheims is expensive (around $100 give or take), but hey, Christmas is only a few months away and it would make an excellent gift! (that’s how I got mine :D)
 
scapularkid8 said:
Is the Jerusalem Bible any good? I opened one up the other day and saw that it used “Yaweh” instead of “LORD” and I liked that.
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Actually, I would prefer it the other way around since the Jews usually call YHWH Adonai which I think means Lord. 😉

Catholig
 
scapularkid8 said:
Is the Jerusalem Bible any good? I opened one up the other day and saw that it used “Yaweh” instead of “LORD” and I liked that.
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I’m not very familiar with it. I believe it is a French translation and tends toward the dynamic equivalence end of the spectrum (I prefer the more literal translations). It does have one quirk - it is in novel format. By that I mean the words stretch all the way across the page as opposed to the more familiar 2 column format.

That being said, it’s Mother Angelica’s translation of choice, so it can’t be bad 👍

Oh, and from what I’ve heard, stay away from the New Jerusalem Bible - it’s plagued with inclusive language.
 
mtr01 said:
Oh, and from what I’ve heard, stay away from the New Jerusalem Bible - it’s plagued with inclusive language.
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Not true. The 1966 JB has no inclusive language. There is some inclusive in the 1985 NJB, but it is much more restrained than that in the RNAB and the NRSV.
 
mtr01 said:
I’ll third this sentiment. I have about 5 different bible translations I read devotionally and for other various reasons. However I always refer everything back to the Douay and Fr. Haydocks commentary.

As another poster mentioned, the Haydock Douay-Rheims is expensive (around $100 give or take), but hey, Christmas is only a few months away and it would make an excellent gift! (that’s how I got mine :D)
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Intrigued by the Haydock commentary comments (I’ve been looking for a good study resource), I did a quick Google. Voila! Haydock’s Catholic Bible Commentary (under construction). This along with the Douay Rheims will make for a nice online resource.

Hopefully, they will complete the Commentary. The Old Testament page gives an estimated completion date of June 2008. I’m happy for what they offer now…it is a start.

Pax,
Robert
 
rlg94086 said:
Intrigued by the Haydock commentary comments (I’ve been looking for a good study resource), I did a quick Google. Voila! Haydock’s Catholic Bible Commentary (under construction). This along with the Douay Rheims will make for a nice online resource.

Hopefully, they will complete the Commentary. The Old Testament page gives an estimated completion date of June 2008. There is no such date on the New Testament page, so I’m not sure if it is the expected date for both. I’m happy for what they offer now…it is a start.

Pax,
Robert
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The New Testament is already complete. The Old Testament is still in process.
 
rlg94086 said:
Intrigued by the Haydock commentary comments (I’ve been looking for a good study resource), I did a quick Google. Voila! Haydock’s Catholic Bible Commentary (under construction). This along with the Douay Rheims will make for a nice online resource.

Hopefully, they will complete the Commentary. The Old Testament page gives an estimated completion date of June 2008. I’m happy for what they offer now…it is a start.

Pax,
Robert
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I should have mentioned the links in my post. There are great to have access to while online. And from my own witnessing of the progress of the OT notes, I suspect they’ll be ahead of schedule.

Oh and for another Douay resource, there is a program that gives you the Douay Translation side by side with Clementine Vulgate. You can get for free it at:

vulsearch.sourceforge.net/

If you use the Firefox web browser, you can also get a plug-in that allows you to search the Vulgate right from your browser!
 
mtr01 said:
I should have mentioned the links in my post. There are great to have access to while online. And from my own witnessing of the progress of the OT notes, I suspect they’ll be ahead of schedule.
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I agree! 👍 I have that site bookmarked.
 
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