Month: May 2019

The publication date for the British edition of the Revised New Jerusalem Bible has been delayed for about a month. The publication date listed on Book Depository has changed from June 27, 2019 to July 29, 2019. Since this delay is coming so late in the process, I’m guessing (and Continue Reading

Since the beginning of Advent, I’ve been featuring a comparison between the REB and NABRE for the first reading of each Sunday Mass to survey the overall flavor of the REB’s Old Testament translation. We’ve reached a good stopping point for that series, since all the Sunday Mass readings in Continue Reading

Bruce Metzger (1914-2007) was a giant of biblical scholarship, of the sort we are unlikely to see again. A scholar of the Greek New Testament, he was on the board of both the American Bible Society and the United Bible Society and taking part in the judgement of textual variants Continue Reading

As a follow-up to Bob’s excellent comparison between the 1970 and 1986 NAB NT readings for the Easter Vigil, I thought it would be interesting to compare the Confraternity New Testament with the 1970 NAB to see how close or different they are. In theory, the two translations could exhibit Continue Reading

What began as a project trying to discern possible futures of the New American Bible has recently become an investigation of its past. Last time, I looked at the psalms and canticles of the Easter Vigil lectionary. What interested me was the evolution of the NAB Psalter from its beginnings, Continue Reading

At the beginning of February, I reported on the upcoming RSV-CE travel bible from Scepter Press. At the time, Scepter estimated that it would be published in late March or early April. I just received a note from a reader with an updated timeline of late May or early June, Continue Reading