What Bibles do you own?

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I still just own my Bible I’ve had since I was 10 (NLT), which, as a convert, doesn’t have the Deuterocanon. However, it has sentimental value and I mostly read the Bible during mass and the office of readings. Outside of that I focus on the new testament so it works out fine.
 
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The closest I have to that type of premium Bible is a Confraternity-Douay version published in 1957. Red leather with gold lettering bounded. Gilted page edges. Colored illustrations and maps. Family Record pages.
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I may have my Ignatius RSV rebound. The text block is Smyth sewn, it just could use a better leather cover. I know someone who can do this kind of rebinding work with goatskin: (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
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That looks beautiful
 
OK, you asked. Ya’ see, I have this thing about scripture.

OT/NT:
Several Douay-Confraternity bibles (1949, 1950, 1952, 1953, 1957, 1960 compact) - some of the absolute best in Catholic bibles.
1953 Belmont Abbey Catholic Action bible (Excellent artwork)
1967 Pope Paul VI Papal Edition Douay-Confraternity
1967 Pope Paul VI Papal Edition Douay Confraternity (Spanish)
1953 Marian Douay-Confraternity
1914 Douay-Rheims w/approbation of James Cardinal Gibbons
A leather-bound late 40s - early 50s P J Kenedy reprint of the 1914 Douay-Rheims
1952 3-volume Knox translation
1954 Knox Student Edition
1966 Jerusalem Bible
1966 Jerusalem Bible - Reader’s Edition paperback
1985 New Jerusalem Bible
2-3 Revised English bibles w/Apocrypha
Oxford Study Bible w/Apocrypha
Revised Standard Version - Second Catholic Edition
Revised Standard Version w/Apocrypha
New Living Translation - Catholic Edition
Catholic Living Bible
Scofield Reference Bible
(6) KJV, One 19th century w/family history, one 1845, 2 paperback w/Apocrypha, 2 soft cover
1906 Swedish Bibeln
Biblia Edición Pastoral (Spanish)
Sacred Writings (Revised English New Testament) w/Apocrypha
New American Standard Bible
New International Version
1970 Family Edition New American Bible
Several NAB 1970-1985
NAB/RE

New Testament:
1941 Confraternity New Testament hardcover
1952 Confraternity New Testament pocket sized leather
(2) reprints 1941 pocket-sized Confraternity New Testaments
1965 soft cover Confraternity NT
(All of the above Confraternity NTs are simply excellent)
Revised Standard Version Second Catholic Edition w/Psalms
New Revised Standard Version compact w/Apocrypha
Several generic “hand out” New Testaments (KJV, NAB)
International Standard Version NT
and a few I am forgetting.

Thing is, all of this amounts to maybe $125 max. Bibles are super cheap in thrift stores, eBay, Amazon and ThriftBooks - sad, actually.
 
Good gravy. I have only three:
  • RSV-2CE
  • NIV (from when I was Protestant)
  • NABRE (a gift from when I was in RCIA)
For posts here, I use the Douay-Rheims on an app I have. Otherwise, I just don’t read Scripture directly from the Bible all that much. My exposure to it comes from Mass, the Divine Office (lauds and vespers), and books that quote from the Bible. I have been thinking of getting the Baronius Press Douay-Rheims/Vulgate bible, but I fear it will be wasted on me since again, I don’t read it much. I definitely would not be opposed to buying a solid Catholic study Bible though.

EDIT: Maybe something like this? 🤔

Haydock Douay-Rheims Bible
 
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I think I own an RSV CE 2nd edition, NRSV CE, King James, Douay-Rheims, and ESV. Maybe a few others.
 
  • The King James Version, although I will be getting rid of it
  • The New American Bible- St. Joseph’s Edition
 
The way I see it, every translation comes as close as possible to the bullseye. Still, all are translations and have the inherent limitaitons of language and usage - missing the bullseye by just a bit. So IMO, consulting with various translations brackets the bullseye and one can then determine just a little more closely where that bullseye is as well as the intent of the sacred writer.
 
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It’s an awesome book about scripture. It is take a while to read though since it goes step by step through the old testament. Easy reader. Not in a scholastic format.
 
More than I should probably but I love the poetry of the KJV, the mysticism of the DR, and the excellent English of the RSVC.
 
I’m feeling a little guilty here given some responses. In my 63 years of Catholic life I have owned exactly one Bible that I bought myself years back: New American St. Joseph edition. It is dog eared, cover falling apart, and marked up. I love it.
 
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I’m feeling a little guilty here given some responses. In my 63 years of Catholic life I have owned exactly one Bible that I bought myself years back: New American St. Joseph edition. It is dog eared, cover falling apart, and marked up. I love it.
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Nothing at all wrong with that. It sounds like that Bible’s gotten a lot of love.
 
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A few KJVs, precious family heirlooms
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The oldest bible in our family is a KJV that belonged to my mom. She was given it in the 1920’s I believe. Growing up we always referred to it as “the family bible”. In it are contained birth, marriage and death records of people most of my siblings and I never met. It truly is a treasure. It’s been in my oldest sister’s care since mom’s passing in 2005. Odd that she asked for it, as she is an atheist. With a soft heart and nature. 🙂
 
1899 Douay Rheims
1992 Reprint of 1899 Douay Rheims
1941 Confraternity New Testament pocket size paperback
1941 Confraternity New Testament pocket (leather)
1951 Douay-Confraternity
1954 Knox Bible student edition
2011 Baronius Knox Bible reprint
1966 Jerusalem Bible full edition
1968 Jerusalem Bible compact readers edition
1970 New American Bible
2006 RSV-2CE
2006 RSV-2CE pocket New Testament and Psalms
2011 Ignatius Catholic Study Bible NT
2011 NABRE Little Rock Catholic Study Bible
2011 NABRE gift edition
2015 Didache Bibe Ignatius Edition
 
  • Douay-Rheims (Challoner)
  • New English Bible
  • Biblia Vulgata (Latin edition published in Spain, clothbound)
  • Greek-English Old Testament Septuagint (from a book sale, I don’t read Greek)
  • Jerusalem Bible
  • King James Version
  • Polish New Testament (inexpensive paperback, purchased in Poland)
  • Gideon New Testament in German/French/English
  • really old French and Spanish Bibles found in thrift shops (one French, one Spanish)
My son has a copy of the New American Bible given to him in Catholic school but I don’t encourage its use. For homeschool we use either Douay-Rheims or the NEB.

There may be others. I have several boxes of books stored in a closet due to the small size of our house and limited shelving.
 
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