how many catholic bibles are there? can i find a list?

Answer 1

Probably you cannot.

A Catholic bible is one which has been checked for quality assurance by a bishop or his censor. The number of hand made bibles and translations throughout the centuries would be staggering even before the printing press. The earliest bibles we have in English are from the 8th century. Luther had made the 97th translation into German of the bible.

The current Catholic bible for use in the United States is the New American Bible and can be found at http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/

This is the current authorized translation for proclamation in the US Church.

Any bible can be a Catholic bible if a Catholic bishop will confirm it for use in the public reading of scripture. The Roman part of the Catholic Church reads the entire bible once every three years during the Sunday service, or once every two years in the daily service with certain parallel passages excepted to avoid duplication.

If a list exists, it only exists among scholars and I doubt one exists there. There are currently 400,000 variant readings in the New Testament from the oldest documents. They do organize them by scriptural families of tradition, but I doubt a canonical list exists.

Each local church has an official bible for proclamation, more than one if it serves multiple language groups. Each "particular" church also has a liturgical language, a language which is used as the base language for the celebration of scripture and communion.

So, for the Church of Antioch, the base service is in Aramaic or in Arabic, in the Church of Rome it is Latin (even if the service is in English it is checked against the ancient services which of course would have been in Latin), for the Greeks it is Greek, for the Russians it is Old Church Slavonic and so on. Each of these groups have services left to them from the apostles and it is these services which form the base of the local Catholic service. The three base groups of services are those left by James, Mark and Peter.

I mention the services because the scriptures and the services are intimately intertwined. The services are almost entirely quotations of scripture from beginning to end. But the scriptures exist within their celebration and are not truly independent of their public reading.

Answer 2

There are dozens.

There are even "Catholic" versions of Protestant Bibles with the additional Catholic writings added in.

Here is one person's top ten list: http://catholicism.about.com/od/catholicentertainment/tp/tpcathbibles05.htm

Here is the on-line version of the Bible used in all U.S. Catholic Masses: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

Look under Fiction in the library

Answer 4

There are probably literaly millions in print!