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To those of you who have a copy of the New Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition (NRSV-CE):

What is there about it that renders it a “Catholic” edition?

Is any information given in its Introduction/Foreward/Preface explaining if/why this edition is different from the “generic” NRSV?

Are there book introductions, endnotes, or footnotes from Catholic scholars, as there are in the RSV-CE?

How are “key” passages, e.g., Luke 1:28, dealt with? Examples, please.
 
Manfred said:
To those of you who have a copy of the New Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition (NRSV-CE):

What is there about it that renders it a “Catholic” edition?

Is any information given in its Introduction/Foreward/Preface explaining if/why this edition is different from the “generic” NRSV?

Are there book introductions, endnotes, or footnotes from Catholic scholars, as there are in the RSV-CE?

How are “key” passages, e.g., Luke 1:28, dealt with? Examples, please.
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The only thing that makes an NRSV-CE are the inclusion of the Deuterocanonical works in the traditional order (i.e. not “sandwiched”). There are no changes to the text, so the NRSV-CE will have the famous “highly favored” in Luke 1:28.
 
porthos11 said:
The only thing that makes an NRSV-CE are the inclusion of the Deuterocanonical works in the traditional order (i.e. not “sandwiched”). There are no changes to the text, so the NRSV-CE will have the famous “highly favored” in Luke 1:28.
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Does the NRSV-CE have an imprimatur?
 
porthos11 said:
The only thing that makes an NRSV-CE are the inclusion of the Deuterocanonical works in the traditional order (i.e. not “sandwiched”). There are no changes to the text, so the NRSV-CE will have the famous “highly favored” in Luke 1:28.
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Unfortunately, this was what I expected. For why should we ask to have changed the rendering in a bible that is not our own, when bibles which are ours, i.e., NAB, RNAB, JB, NJB, have not been required to follow suit?
 
porthos11 said:
There are no changes to the text, so the NRSV-CE will have the famous “highly favored” in Luke 1:28.
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Are you sure about this? I feel as though I have a VERY clear memory of browsing the NRSV-CE at Barnes and Noble, and seeing “full of grace”. Although, perhaps it was merely the Catholic edition of the RSV? I have to go check…

By the way, since we’re on this subject, am I the only one disappointed (dare I say DISGUSTED) by the NAB’s “favored one” in Luke 1:28?
 
Unfortunately,
the NRSV-Catholic Edition does not render
kecharitomene as “full of grace.”

It also makes a lot of use of horizontal inclusive language.
That doesn’t really bother me, except that the translators
usually use the term “mortals” for “men” instead of something
like “humans.” I don’t like the word, “mortals” because mortality is not limited to human beings. Animals are mortals too, so
in my opinion “mortals” is a poor word choice.

Other than the above, I enjoy the NRSV-CE for devotional reading, but there are no Catholic study notes, it’s just a plain
text readers edition.

For serious study, I much more prefer
the Revised Standard Version 2nd Catholic Edition published by Ignatius Press, and also the Douay-Rheims HAYDOCK Bible.
It too is superb.

Jaypeeto4
+JMJ+
 
NewAbdalMaseeh said:
Are you sure about this? I feel as though I have a VERY clear memory of browsing the NRSV-CE at Barnes and Noble, and seeing “full of grace”. Although, perhaps it was merely the Catholic edition of the RSV? I have to go check…
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Sorry to disappoint. It is not “full of grace” in the NRSV.
By the way, since we’re on this subject, am I the only one disappointed (dare I say DISGUSTED) by the NAB’s “favored one” in Luke 1:28?
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For serious study, I much more prefer the Revised Standard Version 2nd Catholic Edition published by Ignatius Press
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I think the original RSV:CE is much better. Although I support replacing archaic renderings (thee/thou) with modern grammar, the 2CE kind of does it nonsensically; you can’t just copy/paste all of the words you want to change and expect it to read the same way.
 
EphelDuath said:
I think the original RSV:CE is much better. Although I support replacing archaic renderings (thee/thou) with modern grammar, the 2CE kind of does it nonsensically; you can’t just copy/paste all of the words you want to change and expect it to read the same way.
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And I think the RSV-2CE is much better.
 
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