New American Bible... is it Good?

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SoonerforChrist:
Thoughts, opinions… Anybody done the research already?
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To get back to the verse in the OP …

I Corintinians 9:5

NAB has “Christian wife”

RSV-CE has “wife” with a footnote clarifying “Greek woman, sister”

KJV has “a sister, a wife”

CEV has “marry one of the Lord’s followers”

REB has “Christian wife”

I don’t know Greek, but just looking at five different translations, the case for “wife” being an idiosyncracy of the NAB, or even part of some theological agenda, isn’t convincing. I’d never heard of that fisheaters site before, but I don’t think it’s reliable.
 
To OP: You are quite right - “Christian wife” is not an accurate translation in the NAB. It’s not even a translation at all, of course.
 
I have found the NAB, St. Joseph’s edition to be okay for just reading, though I agree that some of the poetry sounds like it was written by Yoda. Unfortunately my favorite Bible translation doesn’t come in a “Catholic” version. For study purposes, I found the New International Version to be the best, though it doesn’t include Maccabbees, Judith , Tobit, Sirach, Wisdom, Baruch or the “extra” bits of Esther or the story of Susanna in Daniel. But it does include all possible explinations of translations, including explaining that where the gospels refer to Jesus’ brothers and sisters, they could be blood brothers or close relatives. They tell the reader in the footnotes that the word can be translated either way. Which is surprising in a protestant translation. I wish they would put out a Catholic edition because they seem to give more credence to Tradition than the NAB does. Including the authorship of the Gospel of St. John.
Kris
 
i’m reading the New American Bible right now and its very good. The New American Bible is what we had at our Catholic High School. I assume a Catholic Study bible would be good if you want to learn even more.
 
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asquared:
the fisheaters cite is not moderated by people in communion with the CAtholic Church, so ignore it. The New American bible is the version authorized for liturgical and catechetical use in the United States, so that should be good enough for any American Catholic.
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Where does *that * come from? I own and run the Fish Eaters Website and, I assure you, I am in communion with Rome. I attend Masses offered, by indult, by priests of the F.S.S.P.

The Fish Eaters: The Whys and Hows of Traditional Catholicism website is a pan-traditionalist site that avoids the “politics” of the “F.S.S.P. vs. S.S.P.X. vs. sede” type debates. At the site’s discussion forum, all sorts of trads are welcome, no matter where they worship. There, things can get “political,” as it were. But the site itself is one that can be used by any traditionalist who uses the 1962 Missal.

Ya know, I’ve seen this sort of characterization of my site before, and I beg it to stop. I’ve spent ***years ** * of my life working on a site that’s designed to help Catholics who are attracted to the traditional forms of worship learn how to practice Catholicism in the traditional way (whether they worship at “indult” parishes or in S.S.P.X. chapels is their business and something the site itself avoids getting into). I’m sure there was no bad intent here, but all that work – *literally, years of work! * – can be for nothing if that sort of “that site isn’t in communion with Rome” meme is spread around the internet.

I maintain that my site is a perfectly good site for “Ecclesia Dei” traditionalists who worship at Masses offered by priests of the F.S.S.P or I.C.K, etc., and is a sorely needed site at that as the “Being Catholic” section practically baby-steps people who are new to tradition through everything they need to know. For those who are attracted to Tradition, I invite them to check it out for themselves and not let rumors and blurbs in discussion forums scare them off. To avoid the politics or the sight of those who attend Masses offered by the S.S.P.X., just stay away from the discussion forum, where you will find such souls.
 
I like the straight forward language in which the NAB is written, however, I always check its NT translation with the RSV Catholic Edition. Here’s an example why.

NAB - Acts 1:1 “In my first account, Theophilus, I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught”

RSV-CE - Acts 1:1 “In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus **began **to do and teach”

There is a vast difference in saying St. Luke told us all Jesus did and taught in his Gospel and all that Jesus began to do and teach.

Overall, the NAB is easy to read and is, I think, better organized than the RSV-CE, but I put more trust in the RSV-CE translation.
 
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FrankR:
A question for you, I downloaded the Bible View and some commentaries to go with it. To your knowledge, are any of the available commentaries geared toward the Catholic side? I was dissapointed to see commentaries that are slanted toward the Protestant view of things.
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He used to have the NAB available but doesn’t any longer, I believe due to copyright issues. He still offers the DRB which is in the public domain.
History repeats – the Church was slow on the uptake realizing the impact of the printing press and is now missing out on the Web. I can’t speak for him but I’d bet that if they were offered, Mr. Meyers would put Catholic Bibles and commentaries on his site.
 
I have been doing a little research from the time I posted to now. I believe there are 3 type of Catholics.
  1. LIBERAL CATHOLIC
  2. TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC
  3. Me Catholic (Just trying to be faithful to the Church in particular: Sacred Scriptures, Sacred Tradition, and the Magisterium) – Like Father John Carappi teaches…
Liberal Catholics

We all have seen them running around our parishes. These are the people that want to see women priests, pro-choice, homosexual marriage, adding and taking out of the liturgy… could be as small as taking out the word “men” in the Nicene Creed. (For us men and our salvation he came down from heaven…)

They look back at vatican ii and abuse the language that it uses.

For example… How one obtains salvation.
The only way is through Jesus Christ, unless has never heard the gospel (good news) message and at that point we do not know for sure if that person is saved or not. (Keep in mind, I’m not getting into Faith Alone or Faith + Works…)

Liberal Catholics jump on this and say hooray, judge not lest ye be judged!!! Anybody can get to heaven…

The Traditionalist, points to this and says… see Vatican II did not use proper language, thus the liberal idealogies that are running rampant in the church… Vatican II caused this…

I say… both are taking the language of Vatican II out of context… The language is what it is, and can be verified by tradition, in particular the Counsel of Trent. You have to read the entire thing in it’s proper context!

TRADITIONALISTS

Would convey me as a neo-conservative, and not really understanding what has been going on in the last 40 years. They believe that the Church has not been guided by the Holy Spirit, because of what has been going on inside the church. In so far as suggesting JPII while a good person, was not a good pope.

I think we should all be carefull about this… There are many Saints in the past who have been faithful to the Church, meanwhile always holding fast to Apostolic Tradition.

There is a fine line between dogma and discipline.

I feel as if I’m stuck in the middle! I am faithful to ALL 3 (Sacred Scriptures, Sacred Tradition, and the Magisterium.

There are checks and balances between them and we should all be aware of the invisible divisions that are in the church, we need to humble ourselves and try to understand the situation.

That is what I’m trying to do. There are things that Liberal Catholics do, that I cannot promote, and there are things that tradional Catholics do… that I cannot promote. I’m as fair as I can possibly be, but I would reccomend everybody to read the NAB, the Navarre, the Douey Rhems (Spelling). If you want to understand the message of our Lord.
 
This thread has wandered off topic and will therefore be closed. Any future discussion will have to be had on the next NAB thread, which should be appearing at any moment. :rolleyes:

Thank you to all who participated, this thread is now closed.

Mane Nobiscum Domine,
Ferdinand Mary
 
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