Book of Esther differs in NSRV Catholic version I am looking at?

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tomo_pomo said:
I would say first website mentioned have put NSRV regular version as NSRV CAtholic, because they have included books like psalm 151, 3th 4th book of Esder etc…
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Yes, you’re right.

It appears that the NRSV-CI is the regular version plus the apocrypha (that is, deuterocanonical texts for all major Christian communions).

I suspect they might’ve used “Catholic Interconfessional” rather than “with the Apocrypha” as the latter terminology might be unfamiliar outside of Anglophone contexts.
 
“Catholic polished” is an adjective rather than a noun. It refers to the polishing of the theology in the Revised Standard Version to agree with Catholic teaching, as well as the inclusion of he Deuterocanonical books.
 
tomo_pomo said:
The problem is those two versions should be the same…
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They are; the placement of the texts is slightly different, but they’re both there.

What specific text do you find missing in one or the other?
 
JohnR77 said:
That is not a Catholic website is I’m pretty sure you’ll find notes and commentary that are highly promoted but against Catholic teaching. I would not consider them a trustworthy source from a Catholic perspective in regards to their text either
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Neither Bible site mentioned in the OP are particularly Catholic, but the translations are what they are, unaltered. There are Church-approved Catholic versions included on both. The Bible.com site has substantial Protestant content because I imagine that’s the majority user base. I’ve never seen anything blatantly anti-Catholic there (although, you’ll find studies and reading plans geared toward every flavor of Protestantism, so some things certainly aren’t compatible with the faith). I’ve also found several things that are perfectly in line with the Catholic faith or even published by reputable Catholic sources on that site.
 
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When reading “Life of Christ” by Saint Bonaventure (b.1221 d.1274), I noticed all the quotations and allusions to Scriptures not found in today’s Protestant Bibles that are all dated no earlier than 1517. I then realized that Ecclesiasticus, Tobit, Maccabees, additional parts to Esther and Daniel had been part of the Scriptures in the 13th Century before they were removed later by some in the 16th century and afterwards.
 
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the first one bible . com book of Esther is book of Esther + addition to Esther, which is more text than what it is in NSRV-CE. They also have psalm 151, they also have books of Esdar and etc… which is the same as NSRV non Catholic version, so I concluded that bible . com simply put the wrong version under Catholic version
 
As for Esther it’s interesting that the Protestant version does not even mention God
 
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