NLT Catholic Edition

[catholic03]

Hello:

I am the owner of the New Living Translation Catholic Edition. The NLT is now one of the best selling bibles in the Protestant world. Tyndale House Publishers devised a Catholic edition which has the official approval from the bishops in India. The translation is a combination of dynamic and formal equivalence and is close to the original meaning while being very easy to read.

It is also printed in Italy. Anyone else have this edition. I am surprised it is not more popular, it seems like much better alternative to the NAB which many dislike. The footnotes are also good.

 

[po18guy]

Yes, I have one. Not all that bad, actually. I read it when my energy level is slightly low, as its verbiage is more easily digested than more classical translations. Tyndale’s Catholic Living Bible (CLB) is looser in translation, being rather vulgar/profane in the classic senses of those terms. It can seem like a conversation with your neighbor over the back fence - not traditionally biblical.

However, in the CLB, the Deuterocanonical books are quite good,having been provided to Tyndale by Our Sunday Visitor, and are based on the Clementine Vulgate. Very good.

A sleeper? The Oxford-Cambridge Revised English Bible w/Apocrypha. Produced with (name removed by moderator)ut from he Catholic Church in UK, it is actually a very good daily reader. Sadly no Catholic edition will appear, as the ancient typesetting method does not lend itself to editing. Dirt cheap on eBay or Amazon.

being translated from hte Vulgate and provided to Tyndale by Our Sunday Visitor.