A posted responded in another forum that the only American Bible is the U.S. Constitution but you never know if it might be accepted elsewhere.If they remove “American” from New American Bible, it would have a better chance of being accepted outside of America.
I’ve read some websites where they try to show the Lord’s Prayer wasn’t properly translated into Greek from Aramaic. I believe there were/are several versions just in the Greek alone.
I note that certain non-Catholics are wont to be 'people of the book." Which book? The Greek dictionary. They run to the dictionary in order to prove that their private interpretation is correct. They might as well use an online translator - and we know how humorous some of those translations can be. Thankfully, we have an authoritative Church so that we are not left in the dark.
Yes…please. How about, per the OP’s request, we all say what we like about our primary Bible translation?(Please let us keep this positive and not put down or trash anyone else’s favorite translation of the Holy Scriptures)
Yes. I like the NABRE as I said previously. I’m no scholar and I don’t know the subtle nuances and differences between the D-R or RSV or the NABRE. I like it because it’s easier to read for me. I’m more likely to read it if I easily understand it. I also like many of the notes. They help me keep the context. Maybe some of them having to do with textual criticism and stuff shouldn’t be paid much attention to…I don’t really get into that. I enjoy reading it and praying it. It’s great for me.
My only experience with the NABRE is on the USSCB site. I like how it reads also. The KJV is what I read a lot of before becoming Catholic, and I was SO glad when hearing and reading the NAB for the first time. The notes have been a big help too. Yeah, some notes have bothered me, but my initial reaction isn’t always the right one. The priest has been a big help lately. He told me about the amount of Bible studying he had in the seminary and has spent a lot of time with the Bible since then. He’s in his 60s now and admits that he doesn’t understand all of it. I think we’re in pretty good company, the Apostles didn’t get everything Jesus said the 1st time around either. Even Mary and Joseph didn’t understand him at least once:
I like to read from my Challoner Bible. I am comfortable with the translation. I grew up with it. It is from the Vulgate which was translated by St. Jerome, and used by the church ever since. That seems like good credentials to me.
I’m not one of those for sure. I grew up with the Good News Translation and I’m immensely grateful for it because I was able to read the Bible at an early age. I did have to outgrow it, going through the NIV, NAB, and Jerusalem Bible before finally settling on the two editions of the RSV-CE.
I wonder how many of us have a preference for the translation we grew up with. Most of the quotes used in the learning material when I was in the RCIA was from the NAB. It was also the translation of the Bible given to us by Dad’s employer when grandma died. And it was the translation used for the Rosary mysteries in the handout we were given in the RCIA.
This is true because outside of America it sounds like it is your own version of the Bible as opposed to a translation of the Bible.A posted responded in another forum that the only American Bible is the U.S. Constitution but you never know if it might be accepted elsewhere.
It might be too that people are starting to realize that American English has different meanings and spellings than U.K. English or Canadian English. Having lived in both London and Chicago, I can definitely attest to that.
I think this speaks to the point that matters most about different translations. Translations can be good only to the degree that they can be understood. An accurate translation in one’s own primary language, but that is written with style and vocabulary that do not allow the reader to understand it, might be worse than a text that is in a language foreign to the reader. Late Medieval translations can lead a reader astray if the reader is not very familiar with the language style, even if the language is the reader’s own primary language.
), which I often take along when I am going to be away from home. I find the NJB a little more “poetic” or at least literary than the NAB, but that’s just a personal aesthetic opinion, and in any case I like both.
I like the language in the Douay-Rheims quite a bit, though mentally translating the book titles (cf. Josue) is a job of work.