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The David Bentley Hart Translation of the New Testament — Guest Post by Bob Short (Part 4)

Posted On May 28, 2020 By Marc11 Comments

In this episode, Hart revisits things he first communicated in his “Christ’s Rabble”, the article for Commonweal where he introduced many of the concerns that would consume him from 2017 to present: The New Testament’s animus toward the accumulation of wealth as such, universalism, and the inaccuracy of the “magisterial Continue Reading

The David Bentley Hart Translation of the New Testament — Guest Post by Bob Short (Part 3)

Posted On May 23, 2020May 19, 2020 By Marc8 Comments

In this third installment on the David Bentley Hart version of the New Testament, we will be discussing the introduction to his translation. David Bentley Hart provides us with 22 pages of introduction to his New Testament—pages which offer us tremendous insight into this unusual translation as well as to Continue Reading

The David Bentley Hart Translation of the New Testament — Guest Post by Bob Short (Part 2)

Posted On May 20, 2020May 19, 2020 By Marc15 Comments

In this installment, we look at some of the introductory material. I go on and on about a couple obscure things, but bear with me! The Dedicatory Unless you are into academic theology or monitoring the Twitter accounts of British theologians who like to show you pictures of placid ponds Continue Reading

The David Bentley Hart Translation of the New Testament — Guest Post by Bob Short (Part 1)

Posted On May 16, 2020May 14, 2020 By Marc19 Comments

David Bentley Hart has emerged as quite the controversialist these last few years, and I suppose it’s time to bring the controversy to the pages of Catholic Bible Talk with a multi-part review of his translation of the New Testament. In 2016 David Bentley Hart was an Eastern Orthodox academic Continue Reading

New Editions of the ESV-CE in Development at the Augustine Institute

Posted On May 14, 2020 By Marc48 Comments

Many thanks to two readers who alerted me to this news. The National Catholic Register recently interviewed Dr. Tim Gray and Dr. Mark Giszczak of the Augustine Institute about their newly-published Augustine Bible (ESV-CE). Here’s a link to the transcript. The interview covers a wide range of topics related to Continue Reading

In-Depth with the New Catholic Bible (Part 3 — Footnotes and Introductions)

Posted On May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 By Marc15 Comments

The giant print edition of the New Catholic Bible (NCB) organizes the footnotes at the end of each biblical book. There are no separate cross-references, although the footnotes frequently refer to parallel passages or cross-references. Similar to most editions of the NABRE, the NCB uses an asterisk (*) in the Continue Reading

In-Depth with the New Catholic Bible (Part 2 — Translation)

Posted On May 5, 2020October 7, 2021 By Marc42 Comments

According to the short, one-page introduction to the New Catholic Bible (NCB), the goal of the translators was to “render as perfectly as possible a translation of literal or formal equivalence. Numerous translations were consulted and decisions were made by consensus according to accepted principles of textual criticism.” What does Continue Reading

In-Depth with the New Catholic Bible (Part 1)

Posted On May 3, 2020May 1, 2020 By Marc14 Comments

In late October of 2019, I reported on the recent release of the complete New Catholic Bible (previously called the New Catholic Version) by Catholic Book Publishing Company. This project was in progress for several years. The Psalms were published in 2002, followed by the complete New Testament in 2015, Continue Reading

Eastern Orthodox Bible Zippered New Testament

Posted On May 1, 2020 By Marc17 Comments

Thanks to a reader for sending me a link to this edition. The Eastern Orthodox Bible (EOB) is currently a work in progress, although it has gone well past its original goal to have a completed bible by the year 2008. It is intended “to provide an English text of Continue Reading

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