Confraternity Bible

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the confraternity Bible of the Roman Catholic Church is scattered all over the world and most likely, they use this version (particularly here in the Phjilippines in order to say the the RCC is the church founded by Christ,

is this an authentic Bible? why do the Catholic Scholars concluded that this kind of Bible is authentic and is a good version of the Bible?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confraternity_Bible
 
I have a copy of it and it’s hard to come by here in the U.S. It is a revision of the Douay-Rheims Bible and is about as good as any of them.

Yes, it’s a Catholic Bible.

Whats your point?
 
I love mine! I got it for 10 cents at our library when they were deleting a bunch of books. The one I have is a study Bible. It has wonderful sound orthodox footnotes, something that the NAB should have considered.
 
Church_Militant said:
I have a copy of it and it’s hard to come by here in the U.S. It is a revision of the Douay-Rheims Bible and is about as good as any of them.
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The Confraternity translation began as a revision of the Douay-Rheims, but only the New Testament was published as such. In the wake of Pius XII’s Divino afflante Spiritu in 1943, work done on the Old Testament was scrapped and the project recast as a translation from the original languages. Most of the Confraternity Old Testament (excluding Genesis) now makes up the NAB Old Testament. Genesis and the New Testament were newly translated for the 1970 NAB. The NT and Psalms have of course been revised again since.
 
I got a copy of the Confraternity Bible for free at a St. Vincent De Paul store. 🙂 I haven’t read anything out of it though.
 
ElizabethPH said:
Would this be it? I found this on Amazon. There are some others as well that come up when I put in Confraternity Bible. Sometimes amazon confuses me with their descriptions and often I’m not sure it’s what I think it is.

amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B000AV47ZS/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all

I am starting to collect the various bibles. I have heard on these forums that the Confraternity Bible is a good version.
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This looks like the one.

I got mine at a used book store for about $4. I saw another one there last week that I wanted to “liberate” but my wife will anihilate me if I bring another Bible into the house. Like 20+ Bibles is too many already! :mad:
 
Fidelis said:
This looks like the one.

I got mine at a used book store for about $4. I saw another one there last week that I wanted to “liberate” but my wife will anihilate me if I bring another Bible into the house. Like 20+ Bibles is too many already! :mad:
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thank you so much. I have been to the local used bookstore in my area and they only ever have protestant versions; and on occasion an NAB. We don’t have a Catholic thrift store like a St Vincent De Paul’s. I am in the south and find it hard to find anything local. I know what you mean about collecting I am far from that many; but know I could find myself doing the same
 
ElizabethPH said:
Would this be it? I found this on Amazon. There are some others as well that come up when I put in Confraternity Bible. Sometimes amazon confuses me with their descriptions and often I’m not sure it’s what I think it is.

amazon.com/gp/customer-media/product-gallery/B000AV47ZS/ref=cm_ciu_pdp_images_all

I am starting to collect the various bibles. I have heard on these forums that the Confraternity Bible is a good version.
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yes this looks like the bibles we had in Catholic school from 6th grade (confirmation) on, wish I still had mine, but my brother has his, maybe I will inherit it. When many of us oldies express nostalgia about the DR version, we are really speaking of the Confraternity version based on it. Since the DR is one of the most reliable translations of the Vulgate ever attempted, yes this is a good bible.

now can one of our CA experts tell me if this translation was used for the English version of readings in the St. Joseph or St Andrew Sunday missals we had in parochial school in the 50s?
 
Cranch said:
The Confraternity translation began as a revision of the Douay-Rheims, but only the New Testament was published as such. In the wake of Pius XII’s Divino afflante Spiritu
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in 1943, work done on the Old Testament was scrapped and the project recast as a translation from the original languages. Most of the Confraternity Old Testament (excluding Genesis) now makes up the NAB Old Testament. Genesis and the New Testament were newly translated for the 1970 NAB. The NT and Psalms have of course been revised again since.Ah Thank you!, I didn’t know that! 👍
 
puzzleannie said:
yes this looks like the bibles we had in Catholic school from 6th grade (confirmation) on … When many of us oldies express nostalgia about the DR version, we are really speaking of the Confraternity version based on it.

now can one of our CA experts tell me if this translation was used for the English version of readings in the St. Joseph or St Andrew Sunday missals we had in parochial school in the 50s?
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I still have my St Joseph Daily Missal from 1960. Yes, the NT readings were all taken from this Confraternity version, though the Missal used you/your/yours instead of thee/thou/thine, an innovation of its own, as the Lectionary used the CV as it was.
 
Church_Militant said:
I have a copy of it and it’s hard to come by here in the U.S. It is a revision of the Douay-Rheims Bible and is about as good as any of them.

Yes, it’s a Catholic Bible.

Whats your point?
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take this for example,

mat. 16:18 κἀγὼ δέ σοι λέγω ὅτι σὺ εἶ Πέτρος, καὶ ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τῇ πέτρᾳ οἰκοδομήσω μου τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, καὶ πύλαι ᾅδου οὐ κατισχύσουσιν αὐτῆς.

in those confraternity bible of the Roman Catholic Church—they put the words “ONE HOLY CATHOLIC ROMAN CHURCH”.

but it is so obvious that it is not stated in the original greek of it—hmmm…sounds the Catholic scholars are adding words to the verse 🤷
 
AAC08 said:
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but it is so obvious that it is not stated in the original greek of it—hmmm…sounds the Catholic scholars are adding words to the verse 🤷
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You mean just like when Martin Luther added “alone” to Romans 3:28 in his German translation to justify (all pun intended) his understanding of sola fide? Or in the KJV where the office of “overseer” is translated as “bishop” in order to help shore up the questionable nature of the “apostolicity” that the Church of England claimed for itself? :rolleyes:
 
Are you talking about this verse?

1Pe 2:25 DRB
(25) For you were as sheep going astray: but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

JJ
 
Jolly_Joe said:
Are you talking about this verse?

1Pe 2:25 DRB
(25) For you were as sheep going astray: but you are now converted to the shepherd and bishop of your souls.

JJ
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And: Philippians 1:1; 1st Timothy 3:1; Titus 1:7 and how the majority of Protestant translations render it “overseer” for obvious reasons.
 
AAC08 said:
take this for example,

mat. 16:18 κἀγὼ δέ σοι λέγω ὅτι σὺ εἶ Πέτρος, καὶ ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τῇ πέτρᾳ οἰκοδομήσω μου τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, καὶ πύλαι ᾅδου οὐ κατισχύσουσιν αὐτῆς.

in those confraternity bible of the Roman Catholic Church—they put the words “ONE HOLY CATHOLIC ROMAN CHURCH”.

but it is so obvious that it is not stated in the original greek of it—hmmm…sounds the Catholic scholars are adding words to the verse 🤷
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Perhaps I have misunderstood you but if you are trying to say Matthew 16:18 in an English-language Confraternity bible contains the words “one, holy, catholic, Roman” inserted before the word “Church” you are mistaken. If you have seen this yourself on a printed page, you were not looking at an authentic Confraternity bible. I hope you are merely repeating some nonsense you’ve been told. This phrase does not even appear in the notes to Matthew 16:18 in the Confraternity New Testament.
 
Cranch said:
Perhaps I have misunderstood you but if you are trying to say Matthew 16:18 in an English-language Confraternity bible contains the words “one, holy, catholic, Roman” inserted before the word “Church” you are mistaken. If you have seen this yourself on a printed page, you were not looking at an authentic Confraternity bible. I hope you are merely repeating some nonsense you’ve been told. This phrase does not even appear in the notes to Matthew 16:18 in the Confraternity New Testament.
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I have a St. Joseph’s Confraternity Bible and my Matt. 16:18 reads: And I say to thee, thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

So I don’t see where the OP got that verse from.
JeanneH
 
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