DOES ANYONE OWN A St.Joseph's Textbook Edition Confraternity BIBLE?

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I’m interested in what the PREFACE to the book of Mark says, when it was written, and I need to know whether it says it is the 2nd gospel written or not. If anyone has this particular bible, let me know. Thanks!
 
There was a thread in 2007 titled “Confraternity Bible” that was about this bible; it may give you members you could contact directly for the info you seek.

You can also purchase it online.
 
Thanks, I’m trying to look something up in a book I dont own…lol
 
In my 1950 edition of the Confraternity edition of the Bible, in the preface to St. Mark, it does declare this to be the second Gospel. It says it was written in Rome sometime before 60 AD and that he wrote it in Greek for the Gentile converts to Christianity. 🙂
 
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In my 1950 edition of the Confraternity edition of the Bible, in the preface to St. Mark, it does declare this to be the second Gospel. It says it was written in Rome sometime before 60 AD and that he wrote it in Greek for the Gentile converts to Christianity. 🙂
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Thank you so much for that. I was having a discussion & I was explaining to someone that MARK was the oldest gospel, first one written, & a protestant lady w. a catholic bible is reading it verbatum telling me that mark was the second gospel, (I’m thinking, no, it was the first written, second in order) But this bible refers to it as the 2nd gospel, (If it was written in the 1950’s, surely someone saw the potential for hands to be raised with questions…lol. Thank you so much.
 
Jason_1977 said:
Thank you so much for that. I was having a discussion & I was explaining to someone that MARK was the oldest gospel, first one written, & a protestant lady w. a catholic bible is reading it verbatum telling me that mark was the second gospel, (I’m thinking, no, it was the first written, second in order) But this bible refers to it as the 2nd gospel, (If it was written in the 1950’s, surely someone saw the potential for hands to be raised with questions…lol. Thank you so much.
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There was a period of time, not so long ago, when the priority of Mark was almost unquestioned, but that opinion has fallen more and more into disfavor, and the priority of Matthew is once again gaining acceptance. 🙂
 
AmbroseSJ said:
There was a period of time, not so long ago, when the priority of Mark was almost unquestioned, but that opinion has fallen more and more into disfavor, and the priority of Matthew is once again gaining acceptance. 🙂
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i KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN!!! MARK gets a bad rap because it’s considered by some to be too blunt, too vague, and has to quick a climax as far as leading up to the crucifixion. I like Luke & John personally, Matthew has a bit more detail than Mark, but as far as detail & the inclusion of more women in scripture, I tend to lean towards Luke & as far as the passion, I like John. John Ch. 20 has apologetics for confession, Also it explains why holy water is added to the wine at communion. I like the detail of John. So yes. I think people see the importance in the use of LANGUAGE I guess & are more careful, not for the sake of being PC, but more for the sake of accuracy.
 
as far as the holy water in the wine, that’s not in ch. 20…lol…I just read that…I type like I talk, but it reads a bit different, so I’m sorry if that sounded out of place.
 
Yes, I own two copies of the St. Joseph edition of the marvellous Confraternity Version (i.e. the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine sponsored Bible as of a text dating from no later than 1969, far superior to the New American Bible that the C.C.D. flogged to the public beginning in 1970). However, this Saint Joseph edition as one finds it usually does not include the last portion of the O.T. to be completed for inclusion in the then-new Confraternity Version, substituting the Douay-Challoner version for those books.

The completed Confraternity Version is very difficult to find, since it was taken off the market almost as soon as it was published. Apparently there is a complete Confraternity Version Bible published and still available in the Philippines, but, alas, I do not own it; that is what you truly should crave (and likely be frustrated!), rather than an incompleted St. Joseph edition of the Confraternity Version!

Completed or not, the Confraternity Version (or Confraternity-Douay Version as the work-in-progress editions were called) is the best Catholic Bible of the Twentieth Century. Someone urged that C.A. mount it on the site, a very good idea the more so if one can track down a truly complete Confraternity Bible to use to (name removed by moderator)ut it!

Jerry Parker
 
At the time the Confraternity Edition came out, the general consensus among Catholic scholars was that Matthew wrote the first Gospel in Aramaic about A.D. 42; Mark wrote the first Gospel in Greek between A.D. 42 and 60; Matthew’s Gospel in Greek appeared about A.D. 62; Luke wrote his Gospel in Greek about A.D. 63.
 
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