NAB study notes

[swampboy]

Are there any NAB editions with notes that are different (i.e. more traditional) than those typically found in the NAB translation? Or do they all have the same terrible liberal notes?

 

[Fidelis]

I’m afraid they’re all pretty much the same across the board.

The only exception I’ve seen is an NAB that was published by, of all people, Zondervan (a Protestant publishing house). It was called The Catholic Serendipity Bible. It was the full text of the NAB except for the footnotes. Instead, it had lots and lots of Bible study aids, questions, and suggested Bible studies for all types of groups and individuals. Here is what it looks like.

They stopped publishing it a few years back, but I was lucky to get a copy, which is now one of my most treasured Bibles. The Amazon used one is three times what it originally costs. You still might find a stray one in a new or used bookstore, or on e-bay. If you do, grab it!

 

[swampboy]

Thanks Fidelis…I looked at the link for that bible you noted…looks interesting but as you stated very $$$$!!! I’ll keep the name in the back of my head in case one comes up somewhere for a decent price…otherwise way too much $$ for a NAB. I was hoping that there would be more versions with different notes…I did see a readers edition listed without notes but that is not what I am looking for. Thanks again.

 

[Axion]

Try the Christian Community Bible - Catholic Pastoral edition. This is a reasonably priced “third world” translation that has much better bible notes than the NAB or NJB.

The notes, while retaining certain Lib-Crit assumptions, do beat the NAB by actually tend to use the bible texts to support (rather than suvbert) Catholic teachings, and to give the bible commentary a devotional and pastoral exegesis. Something very lacking in many other notes.

 

[diggerdomer]

Are there any NAB editions with notes that are different (i.e. more traditional) than those typically found in the NAB translation? Or do they all have the same terrible liberal notes?

Wasn’t the NAB approved by the Church, which would include approving the notes? If so, are you sure they are that terrible? I may be wrong, I thought any printed edition of the NAB for Catholics required Church approval.

 

[swampboy]

Wasn’t the NAB approved by the Church, which would include approving the notes? If so, are you sure they are that terrible? I may be wrong, I thought any printed edition of the NAB for Catholics required Church approval.

I believe that only the text is approved, not the notes–and one has to question why certain texts like the NAB are approved when they aren’t deemed suitable, at least in part, to be used in liturgy. And yes I am positive that a majority of the notes are terrible, particularly if one wants to strengthen their Catholic faith and understanding of certain Church beliefs and teachings. Any bible that has notes that claim Matthew was not written by Matthew is suspect in my book, regardless of what the Church says–and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

 

[diggerdomer]

I believe that only the text is approved, not the notes–and one has to question why certain texts like the NAB are approved when they aren’t deemed suitable, at least in part, to be used in liturgy. And yes I am positive that a majority of the notes are terrible, particularly if one wants to strengthen their Catholic faith and understanding of certain Church beliefs and teachings. Any bible that has notes that claim Matthew was not written by Matthew is suspect in my book, regardless of what the Church says–and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

All I know is that the NAB Bible I got in my Catholic high school (many years ago) has both the nihil obstat, and imprimatur. It doesn’t specify that those approvals apply to only part of the book.

The Church by the way does not teach that Catholics have to believe that the Gospel of Matthew was in fact written by Matthew himself. We’re free to believe that, or not.