I have read a little bit of the Revised New Jerusalem Bible

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Please do! When I had discussed it a few months ago, I felt like I was the only one that had ever heard of it.
 
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Was the criticism by Henry Wansbrough? 🙂
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That is my guess too.
a request from the African biblical apostolate for a cheaper edition of The Jerusalem Bible led to a complete revision of the supporting material, independent of the Jerusalem school, though for financial reasons the biblical text of 1966 was retained. This was published by the Catholic Truth Society of London as The CTS New Catholic Bible in 2008. The supporting material produced for that edition has formed the basis of the present edition.
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The biblical text otoh is a wholesale revision of the Jerusalem Bible text. I am not at all sure how extensive the changes are. The principles behind the changes are interesting, so 1.it can be read aloud 2. to retain imagery “rather than dynamic equivalence.” & 3. so it is directed to men and women equally.

Quotes are from the Foreword by Wansbrough.

A Kindle edition of the RNJB was available for $20, so I bought that.
 
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The CTS New Catholic Bible in 2008. The supporting material produced for that edition has formed the basis of the present edition.
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Yes. It looks more a revision of the CTS bible than the JB or NJB. (looked it up this morning)

A lot of people like their CTS bibles and their Grail Psalms.

The JB has its translation of Psalms and the NJB has its translation of Psalms. This RNJB doesn’t. It imports the ‘The Revised Grail Psalms’ as its Psalms. (As did the CTS.)

I think it shouldn’t really be called the RNJB but should be called ‘The Revised CTS New Catholic Bible’? Or maybe advertise itself as ‘Part of the NJB text with different Psalms and a different set of notes’, more agreeable to a wider market? Or even maybe 'The Wansbrough’s Notes Bible. I won’t not read it. 🙂
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This longish youtube book review by a somewhat not Catholic, Protestant guy was interesting. New Translation! The Revised New Jerusalem Bible (RNJB), New Testament and Psalms
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The Revised New Jerusalem Bible - Wikipedia article’s References and External links section.

https://www.dltbibles.com/resources has the video interview(s) with Henry Wansbrough.
 
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