What is the catholic bible?

Question

I hear many people saying they have the new catholic bible , which version is it?

Answer 1

The Bible that Catholics read

God Bless You

Answer 2

The Catholic Bible

Answer 3

Okay, seems like no one wants to answer your question.

First, a Catholic bible is any bible approved for use in the proclaimation of the Gospel and the scriptures. The earliest English translation of the bible we have extant comes from the 700's, although it wasn't until Wycliffe that the entire bible was translated by a single person into English. Prior to that people translated them one book at a time. Unlike Protestant bibles, Catholic bibles have what amounts to a quality assurance process. In the United States, the primary approved Catholic bible is the New American Bible and can be found online at http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/

Another primary Catholic bible in use in English speaking countries is the Jerusalem Bible. It is quite beautiful and if you are looking for a poetic bible, it is superior. As an incidental note, Job was translated by JRR Tolkein.

You can buy a print version of the US edition of the New American bible, basically at cost ($6.95) at http://www.amazon.com/New-American-Bible-Catholics-Testament/dp/0529064847/sr=8-1/qid=1169938996/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-4419174-2138020?ie=UTF8&s=books

It is incorrect above in the statements on what Textus Receptus is and on Eastern and Western scriptural traditions.

Textus receptus comes from a peculiar source. If memory serves me correctly, there was sort of a race to publish a Greek bible. Erasmus won by about a month using the texts he received locally (textus receptus). Unfortunately it has turned out, his were highly corrupted 12th century copies, that were incomplete. He actually translated Revelations into Greek from the Latin Vulgate because he didn't have complete texts. Even by 1700 English scholars were becoming aware of how problematic his texts were, however it wasn't until 1890 when a corrected KJV was published. They removed 20,000 errors created by the 12th century manuscript.

Catholic editions use all available texts in all versions of ancient languages that we have, not just the one received locally in Geneva Switzerland 500 years ago. There is some error also above in criticizing the Vulgate. It is still considered among the best translations ever made. Jerome was an excellent scripture scholar. It stands with several other editions in terms of quality, Catholic bibles are not however based upon the Vulgate as the Vulgate is itself a translation and not an early text. We do not have any of the early texts, other than in fragments and in the letters of the early Fathers. The earliest texts are from around 350 that are near complete and that is Codex Vaticanus and Codex Sianaticus. Even these, and they are excellent, are 300 years after the fact almost.

Answer 4

I'm taking classes at my church to become Catholic. We were given a bible called the "New American Bible." I remember wanting to buy a bible at the bookstore & not being able to fing "The Catholic Bible". I have also heard "The Catholic Answer Bible" is good.

Answer 5

anti catholics have published a catholic bible that makes a mockery of the catholic faith, however there are catholic editions for the church. the catholic bible has seven more books in it,martin luther deleted these books and they are not in versions like the kjv or niv etc.........it is interesting to note that from the deleted books,jesus quotes from them over 300 times(the books are found in the old testament). also noteworthy is that martin luther also wanted to get rid of the book of hebrews and the book of revelations he also added the word alone to the bok of romans.

some catholic versions are

nab(new american bible),the revised standard catholic edition, the ignatius bible,the navarre bibile. there are other versions,type catholic bibles in your search engine and you will find more comprehensive lists.

to learn more about the canon of the bible and why there are seven more books etc the majority of catholic websites will cover this and can also be found in your search engine.

Answer 6

The Catholic Bible is the original letters that was the first put into One Book. Today the oldest manuscripts were given to the Vatican from the original Gospel of Luke and John to add to their historic documents from the year 175AD.

The text matches the Catholic Bible versions. All protestant bibles were approved prior to the split from the original. Protestant deleted letters that Jesus used to quote from in the Gospels because they did not match the protestant complaints against the Catholic Church.

Proof in today's news of the historic authenticity of the Catholic bible.

Answer 7

The Catholic Bible that Catholics and Orthodox Christians use is the Septuagint (Greek; also referred to as LXX) version of the Bible while Protestants by and large -- as well as Jews, of course -- use the Masoretic (Hebrew) version which came to be somewhere between 117-138 A.D.

The New Testament was written in Greek -- and in Jesus' time the Greek Septuagint was in use -- by Jesus and his followers.

"The quotations from the Old Testament found in the New are in the main taken from the Septuagint; and even where the citation is indirect the influence of this version is clearly seen." -- Jewish Encyclopedia

"This distrust (of the Septuagint by the Jews after the fall of the Second Temple in 90 A.D.) was accentuated by the fact that it had been adopted as Sacred Scripture by the new faith. A revision in the sense of the canonical Jewish text was necessary." Jewish Encyclopedia

So, dear Protestants -- why do YOU not use the version of the Bible used by Jesus himself????

Answer 8

It is a version not based on honorable Received text - Textus receptus which was used for KJV and mostly for NKJV.
It must be than based on Vulgata, a version that is prescribed by law in Vatican.
There are basically two version of the Bible - eastern and western. Eastern is based on uncorrupted manuscripts, western is based on manuscripts corrupted by philosophers of the first centuries. Some bible representatives of corrupted manuscripts are NIV and NEB.
I would reccomend a very good FREE book on that topic:
http://www.sundaylaw.net/books/other/standish/bibletrans/mbtutoc.htm
Also, let me tell you a nice and true story found in this book, chapter 7:

A layman in New Zealand, Evan Saddler, concerned about the formation of modern Bible versions which he believed to have been prepared from corrupted manuscripts, was challenged by a pastor concerning his competence to make such a judgment. "How many languages do you know?" asked the pastor. Mr. Saddler, a man of good humor, promptly replied, "Two!—New Zealand and Australian."

Unfazed by this humorous rejoinder, the pastor pressed his point. "How can you make yourself an expert on Bible translation if you do not know Greek or Hebrew?" Mr. Saddler replied by asking a question himself. "Do you understand Greek?" When assured that the pastor did, Mr. Saddler requested an analysis of the Greek wording upon which the New International Version translation of Matthew 18:11 was based. The pastor diligently set about his assigned task, but soon discovered that it was not easily fulfilled. Looking up from his Bible in confusion and amazement, the minister exploded, "But there is no Matthew 18:11!" His observation was correct. The tenth verse is present, and the twelfth, but the eleventh is entirely omitted. Quietly, Mr. Saddler replied, "Now what use is your knowledge of Greek when the text is missing?"

Answer 9

"The Apocrypha refers to 14 or 15 books of doubtful authenticity and authority that the Roman Catholics decided belonged in the Bible sometime following the Protestant Reformation. The Catholic Council of Trent (1545-1563) canonized these books. This canonization took place largely as a result of the Protestant Reformation. Indeed, Luther had criticized the Catholics for not having scriptural support fur such doctrines as praying for the dead. By canonizing the Apocrypha (which offers support for praying for the dead in 2 Macabese 23:45-46), the Catholics suddenly had "scriptural" support for this and other distinctively Catholic doctrines.
Roman Catholics argue that the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament) contained the Apocrypha. As well, church fathers like Iranians, Tortellini, and Clement of Alexandria used the apocryphal books in public worship and accepted them as Scripture. Further, it is argued, St. Augustine viewed these books as inspired.
Protestants respond by pointing out that even though some of the Apocryphal books may have been alluded to in the New Testament, no New Testament writer EVER quoted from ANY of these books as holy Scripture or gave them the slightest authority as inspired books. Jesus and the disciples virtually ignored these books, something that wouldn't have been the case if they had considered them to be inspired.
Moreover, even though certain church fathers spoke approvingly of the Apocrypha, there were other early church fathers - notable Origin and Jerome - who denied their inspiration. Further, even though the early Augustine acknowledged the Apocrypha, in his later years he rejected these books as being outside the canon and considered them inferior to the Hebrew Scriptures.
The Jewish Council of Jamie, which met in A.D. 90, rejected the Apocrypha as Scripture. Combine all this with the fact that there are clear historical errors in the Apocrypha (especially those relating to Obit) and the fact that it contains unbiblical doctrines (like praying for the dead), and it is clear that these books do not belong in the Bible. In addition, unlike many of the biblical books, THERE IS NO CLAIM IN ANY APOCRYPHAL BOOK IN REGARD TO DIVINE INSPIRATION.

Answer 10

Peace!
A Catholic Bible is one that has an imprimatur on it.