Question About NAB

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Don’t get me wrong, I adore the NAB…

However, I’m a bit perplexed as to why it translates in Luke 1:28 that Gabriel greets Mary as “favored one” instead of “full of grace”.

Is this a Protestant-leaning translation or something else?

I adore the NAB but this translation makes me wonder a bit.
 
BrianStacy said:
Don’t get me wrong, I adore the NAB…

However, I’m a bit perplexed as to why it translates in Luke 1:28 that Gabriel greets Mary as “favored one” instead of “full of grace”.

Is this a Protestant-leaning translation or something else?

I adore the NAB but this translation makes me wonder a bit.
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The NAB isn’t the only translation from Catholics that translates Luke 1:28 like so. All Protestant Bibles have translated this way since the Geneva Bible and Bishops Bible of the 1560s. Luke 1:28 is my biggest pet peeve. There is very few Bible translations, both Catholic and Protestant that translate it right. “Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women” The NAB use hail, favored one, but omits blessed are thou among women. It did include “blessed are thou among women” at one time, but it no longer does. The RSV-CE uses "Hail full of grace, but omits blessed are thou among women. The Jerusalem Bible says “Rejoice so highly favored” Just because Luke 1:42 says “blessed art thou among women” doesn’t mean that Luke 1:28 isn’t supposed to have it. The NAB along with modern Bible versions use different texts than what St. Jerome used. The are referred to as “original” manuscripts. They claim to be older than those used by St. Jerome, but I highly doubt that. The manuscripts do exist, but no proof that they are older than those used by St. Jerome. Those used by St. Jerome have withered away. The original Greek supposedly translates as Hail, full of grace. The only Catholic Bibles that use Hail full of Grace are Clementine Vulgate, Douay-Rheims, Confraternity Edition Ronald Knox Translation and RSV-CE. RSV-CE is the only one of those that doesn’t include “blessed are thou among women”
 
Thanks Toby…

But my question is this: WHY did they change it?

We all know that Mary was endowed with such Grace that no other Creature other than Jesus Christ who was God Incarnate in the Flesh, and it will never be done again…

It concerns me because as much as I like the NAB, it scares me to know that the newer translations are becoming more and more lenient.

I can’t afford a DR Bible just yet, but it aggravates me so much to hear Mother Mary being referred to as “highly favored” whereas She was, but there’s more to the meaning, it may be hard to translate the words used in Latin/Greek into perfect English grammar.
 
BrianStacy said:
Thanks Toby…

But my question is this: WHY did they change it?

We all know that Mary was endowed with such Grace that no other Creature other than Jesus Christ who was God Incarnate in the Flesh, and it will never be done again…

It concerns me because as much as I like the NAB, it scares me to know that the newer translations are becoming more and more lenient.

I can’t afford a DR Bible just yet, but it aggravates me so much to hear Mother Mary being referred to as “highly favored” whereas She was, but there’s more to the meaning, it may be hard to translate the words used in Latin/Greek into perfect English grammar.
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These so called “original” supposedly translate to highly favored, so they figured if was as old as it is that it had to be more accurate that what Jerome used, that would be my guess, I don’t know for sure. The NAB was my main Bible when I started to read the Bible and when I started Christ Renews His Parish (that is what was used was the St. Joseph NAB). The D-R can be found online for free at www.drbo.org and also www.catholicfirst.com. A word to the wise, drbo also has the Vulgate, but it is the Struggart edition and it produced by Protestants and isn’t approved by the Church. All Catholic Bibles approved by the Church bear an imprimatur or Nihil Obstat or Imprimi Potest or approval from a Bishop’s conference
 
Okay… I get what you mean now.

So, if I may move onto another question about the NAB…

Why is the Revised Pslams not used in Liturgy?
 
BrianStacy said:
Okay… I get what you mean now.

So, if I may move onto another question about the NAB…

Why is the Revised Pslams not used in Liturgy?
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The revised Psalms of 1991 were rejected by the Vatican and Pope John Paul II. The NAB used in the Lectionary is called the RNAB. The NT is also modified and doesn’t follow the revised NT of 1986 completely. Why were they rejected??? Inclusive language. The use of gender based nouns and pronouns.
 
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