For today only, Tan Books is offering a 25% discount on their upcoming reader’s edition of the Douay-Rheims Reader’s Edition. If you add the coupon LION at checkout you will get 25% off. Date of publication is November 3rd.
Also, Tan has begun listing the types of Bibles they will offer in 2027 in the CAB. You can see this here.
Every time I try to go on the tan books website it says there’s an error and won’t let me on, is anybody else having this problem? I emailed them a while ago now and they said it should be fixed soon.
I can get in, hit the Add to Cart, but it doesn’t do anything and says “this product is unavailable.”
That is weird. It worked for me and I just attempted to add to cart. It all worked. Hmm…
Hmm. I seen someone’s comment, somewhere, saying they’ve sold out on their website, but they’re still available to pre order at target. That’s not much use to me thought because target don’t ship to England.
That is really strange, since I ordered mine this morning and have a confirmation number and invoice.
Maybe it’s my phone being weird, I’m going to try it on someone else’s phone. Thanks for letting me know.
I have the same problem it’s been going on for over a week with my phone.
They have eight different options for the upcoming CAB! Between them, Ascension Press, and all the other publishers, I am going to have some serious decision paralysis. I had a hard enough time deciding which Liturgy of the Hours to pick from! haha
We went from “no good binding/printing options for Catholics” to “decision paralysis” within pretty much the last three years. Wild. What a time to be alive. We’re actually in the timeline with a paragraph-format, red-letter-text Douay-Rheims
I’m really looking forward to what Magnificat comes up with for the CAB, above all. (Yes, I got an email from them indicating they would publish a CAB.)
I am as well. I really like the type setting and printing on the monthly issues and I’m interested to see what they come up with. Hoping for some of that cream colored paper.
When are CAB preorders supposed to open? I thought it was yesterday for TAN.
The CAB Didache Bible is now available for pre-order, and for the first time they are producing an edition with a flexible (synthetic leather) cover! I also like the dark grey color. Other great features include Smyth-sewn binding, 9.5 font, and presumably line-matched like the previous Didache Bibles. Is it safe to say this will be the closest thing to a CAB “Study Bible” that we can expect to be released?
https://theologicalforum.org/books/the-didache-bible-cab-flex-cover/?utm_source=Midwest+Theological+Forum&utm_campaign=087b730a53-EMAIL_Didache_Bible_CAB_Preorder&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4d03dd79d1-3dc43ef37e-1411088462&mc_cid=087b730a53&mc_eid=0ba4869f02
Apparently, the notes from NABRE are going to continue??? I looked up the sample page from the Book of Tobit and the intro and notes for the pages given seem to match exactly my NABRE. I was under the impression that the notes would be entirely brand new. Unless they are just using the current NABRE as an example for formatting?
My understanding was that the notes were only revised for the NT. The CAB will be using the NABRE OT with very minimal changes (aside from the Abbey Psalms).
If it is essentially the same text as what was published in 2011 (let’s be honest, the NT will be 98% or more identical to the 1986 Revised New Testament, just as the 2011 OT is 98% identical to the 1970 OT), then what is the purpose of the rebranding? Is it to mislead people into thinking it is a new translation?
I was curious about your comment that the 2011 nabre OT is 98% same as the 1970 nab OT, so I picked about ten verses at random to check it out. Not a single verse was identical, which I think would be pretty unusual if overall they were 98% identical.
The worst rendering of a verse in the entire NAB is Isaiah 9:5, which remains absolutely unchanged from 1970 to 2011.
Even if they changed absolutely nothing else, they should have changed that, and yet they did not.
The 2011 still says “For a child is born to us, a son is given to us;
upon his shoulder dominion rests.
They name him Wonder-Counselor, God-Hero,
Father-Forever, Prince of Peace.”
Quite possibly the worst rendering of that verse in the history of the English language, and they didn’t change a single syllable, and I’ll bet dollars to donuts it will still say the same thing when the CAB is published next February, not one syllable changed. Why they are wedded to that horrible, ungrammatical, and awkward translation, I have no idea, but whenever I hear it read aloud during the Advent season, I cringe, and a little part of me dies inside.
The KJV rendering: “wonderful counselor, Mighty God, everlasting father, prince of peace”, which I hear every Christmas in Handel’s Messiah oratorio, remains the standard against which all translations of that verse should be measured.
Hopefully Genesis 1:1-2, and Isaiah 9:6 are among those modest changes
Genesis 1:1-2 is an excellent example of OT translations that are made from the assumption that the OT is a Jewish book and so they try to de-Christianize the translation. “A mighty wind” is the same as it says in the New Jewish Publication Society translation.
The sample pic of the page was a huge disappointment. I understand the NABRE / CAB must come with the notes, but visually seeing a page that has more than half the page taken up by notes is frustrating. Put them at the end of each book if they must come with the scripture.
The CAB revision was intentionally conservative, but in my view it represents a marked improvement. I combed through all of the publicly available promotional videos and sample pages for the Liturgy of the Hours, Second Edition, and even from that small sampling, the CAB shows evidence of greater conformity to Liturgiam Authenticam: preservation of biblical imagery and the literary character of the text, dignified sacred language, doctrinal precision, and clarity when proclaimed aloud. No doubt it is a preliminary judgement based on a mere 27 verses, but there is reason for cautious optimism. Below are the CAB verses, with the corresponding NABRE text beneath each for ease of comparison.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQPSQjDeRZWJvFbjfh1G69E9grtpH7dQTHPv-PRxazYQmyWePxx0DT5Z1Pw7NoKeA/pub
That’s awesome. Thanks for sharing – I look forward to actually getting a hold of it!
There are lots of little places where the 1986 NT is really wildly inaccurate, for example, in the parable of the Prodigal Son it says he “came to his senses”, this is really bad, more accurate would be what it says in the RSV “He came to himself”
Is that wildly accurate or just replacing an idiom that was already on its way out when the RSV with a more intelligible idiom, albeit one that is in some ways less satisfactory?
“He came to himself” has never been an English idiom; it is a literal translation of the Greek, and it means something like “he remembered who he really is”; it doesn’t mean he changed his mind, which is what “he came to his senses” means.
By the skin of his teeth is directly from the Hebrew but became an English idiom. “Came to himself” was at one point used as if an idiom before being replaced in the language by the idiom which we now see in the NAB. I think that literally translating Hebrew and Greek idioms is a pretty high bar for translation accuracy.
Is it confirmed that the Abbey Canticles will be in the appendix? I would love to have the option to read Isaiah 9:6 there over the standard NAB style rendering
I think it is in the text.
I was under the impression only the Abbey psalms are actually in the body while the errata gives the impression the rest is in an appendix
The Abbey Psalms will replace the NAB Book of Palms but the Abbey Canticles will be in an appendix instead of within the text of the books they come from. So we STILL aren’t really getting a Bible that 100% matches the liturgy (unless you include the appendix).
My question is if the Abbey Canticles will replace the CAB text in the readings when the new Lectionary comes out, or if there will be two different translations used in the liturgy, one in the readings and another in the canticles used at Mass.
Man that would be an odd experience I think
From Ascension’s website:
What formats of the Ascension’s Catholic American Bible are available?
The Catholic American Bible from Ascension is available in the following editions:
Paperback: $19.99
Leatherlike: Standard Print in black, brown, green, and white or Large Print in black and brown, beginning at $39.99
Standard Leather: Standard Print and Large Print in red, beginning at $59.99
Premium Leather: Standard Print and Large Print in black, beginning at $119.99
Premium Natural Grain Leather: Standard Print and Large Print in black, beginning at $189.99
Maybe this will be better than past efforts have been, but paperback editions of the NABRE are absolutely awful; they won’t stay open so you have to hold them open with both hands at all times, or else the instant one hand lets go, they slam shut. This makes them pretty much worthless for reference or even daily reading. Worse, they are absurdly fragile; they start falling apart after only a few weeks of use.
If I were given a paperback copy, I would take an X-Acto knife and remove all of the pages gradually, one by one, then use a hole punch and put all the pages in a binder. It is the only way to make it readable.