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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
Timothy, the publisher, moderator, and all around mensch of Catholic Bible Talk’s predecessor Catholic Bibles Blog has done more than anyone I know in this post-Liturgiam Authenticum world of defending dynamic equivalency as an acceptable way of translating the sacred text. It was my interest in the Knox Bible that Continue Reading
Two years ago, Bishop Robert Barron announced in a podcast that his ministry, Word on Fire, would be publishing a study bible aimed at opening up the Bible’s message to a modern audience. Since that time, Word on Fire has been quietly working to bring the project to press. Today, Continue Reading
Thomas Nelson Catholic Bible Press has released details and product listings for a large print NABRE (New American Bible Revised Edition) which is due to be published on October 6th. Their 2020 catalog (available here) shows that the new edition will feature the same “Leathersoft (R)” imitation leather cover as Continue Reading
Jesus came and stood in their midst, and he said, “Peace be with you.” Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Do not doubt any longer, but believe.” Thomas exclaimed, “My Lord and my Continue Reading
Today is the third installment in comparing the Lexham English Septuagint and Fr. Nicholas King’s translation of the Septuagint. For Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, the reading is taken from Isaiah: Sunday, April 5, 2020 — Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion (Year A)First Reading: Isaiah 50:4-7 Lexham English Continue Reading
The USCCB has now published the Abbey Psalms and Canticles, which includes the Revised Grail Psalms and new translations of the biblical canticles. Have any of you purchased a copy? If so, I’m interested to hear how you like it.
This Sunday, I continue the series I began last week, comparing the Lexham English Septuagint and Fr. Nicholas King’s translation for the first reading at Sunday Mass. Sunday, March 29, 2020 — Fifth Sunday of Lent (Year A)First Reading: Ezekiel 37:12-14 Lexham English Septuagint: “On account of this, prophesy and Continue Reading
Chronicles: Readable as Froissart Luckily for us Catholics, we do not need to be quite so anxious about the “precise sense of the original” than our separated brethren. I am reminded of a comment a friend made: “I’m done studying the Bible. Now I just want to read it.” After Continue Reading
Someone who isn’t a reader of this blog actually read On Englishing the Bible?! It would be years before our precious little grey Baronius paperback, but F.F. Bruce read On Englishing the Bible, which he called a “valuable little book…in which he brought together eight articles and lectures dealing with Continue Reading