… … … it really did that? I really need to find an English translation that suits my needs. . . . I may have to pull a Peter Kreeft and do it myself (with copious doses of help, of course), if permission can be gained from my Bishop.
Keep me posted on that project. I might be a buyer!
The Navarre Study Bible is excellent.
Im not sure why you’re running around calling people fanatics. It’s something liberals tend to do I think. It’s something the French revolutionaries did too, when they sentenced priests and nuns to the chopping block or firing squad, their official crime was fanaticism for being faithful to Rome and not accepting the oath of the “state church.” How wonderful of you to use such a pretty word in reference to those who want to remain loyal to 2,000 years of church teaching and who want to maintain orthodoxy within their scripture studies.
The Navarre is okay for the old testament. But even it has some modernist, historical-critical stuff here and there that is just stated as fact instead of theory, especially regarding authorship and motivation for certain verses. I’ve found that a large percentage of the study note text can be somewhat useless and boring. Not saying it’s a bad purchase, just saying you might wait for the ignatius old testament (haven’t they got one or two done now?). Also, Fr. Haydock is always a good answer. You could buy that giant behemoth of a douey-Rheims bible with haydock’s notes which take up the bottom half of each page or you could just read them for free online. The age of his notes more or less guarantee orthodoxy (or that at least tends to be the case with things written in the 1800s).
If you are interested in a translation of the Nova Vulgata (I AM primarily a Latinist, you know!), then I will keep you posted. Unfortunately, such a translation cannot be used for the liturgy, but I have found no block for a devotional translation. The pastor of my parish is fully behind and supportive of me in this case, and thinks this will be a great way for me to grow in sanctity (he’s the kind of priest who will hear a confession in the middle of the week if the person just walks in and asks).Keep me posted on that project. I might be a buyer!
Well if I have to choose between fanatically conservative or fanatically liberal. I’ll take fanatically conservative every time, because I know it will not lead astray or tear down my faith.
You better get use to the word ‘chalice’, because the new English Missal that will be used this Advent in the USA uses ‘chalice’ instead of ‘cup’ in the institution of the Eucharist. And as mccorm 45 stated before me, the NAB/RE uses ‘cup’ not ‘chalice’.
I certainly wasn’t calling you a fanatic. Sorry if it seemed that way.
I would replace “liberal” with heretical. If you could rip out the commentary and just have the Bible it would be MUCH better. I was revisting my copy of the NAB the other night for the first time in several years and was amazed at how bad the commentary is. It seems purposely designed to destroy someone’s faith.
I think you may be grossly misinformed.
I’m not sure that there is a mechanism for getting a recognitio unless a bishop’s conference asks for one, and in that case it would only be for a lectionary based on that translation anyway. However, I am not an expert, and I welcome correction from others who know more about it (which wouldn’t be difficult, because I don’t know a lot).
I agree! I checked the concordance for the RSV-CE and looked for every verse that had wineskin or wineskins in it, and there are are 8 (Ps 119:83; Josh 9:4, 9:13; Job 32:19; Mt 9:17; Mk 2:22; Lk 5:37, 5:38). I then checked all these verses in the NAB/RE, and every one of them has wineskin or wineskins.
The Douay-Rheims Version also uses ‘chalice’ instead of ‘cup’!