2007-09-06 03:11:19 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
New American Bible
The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB)
Either is fine with the RCC.
The Gideons, for the most part, use the KJV, and that is NOT the preferred translation for most Catholics, although it's "better than nothing".
2007-09-06 03:23:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 2⤋
Individual Catholics use a variety of translations, but the Scripture readings at Mass are from the New American Bible. The Giddeon Bible is the King James Version.
2007-09-06 03:43:37 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
The Catholics use different translations currently here in USA. I have both Catholic and Protestant, (and the Book of Mormon) scriptures currently.
The Gideon Bible is a Protestant text. The 2 copies of the Catholic text, are St. Joseph's edition of the New American Bible. I prefer presently the St.Joseph's edtion for another scriptural reason.
2007-09-06 03:51:23 · answer #3 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) is a Catholic translation of the Bible published in 1985. The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) has become the most widely used Roman Catholic Bible outside of the United States. It has the imprimatur of Cardinal George Basil Hume.
Like its predecessor, the Jerusalem Bible, the New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) version is translated "directly from the Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic." The 1973 French translation, the Bible de Jerusalem, is followed only "where the text admits to more than one interpretation." Introductions and notes, with some modifications, are taken from the Bible de Jerusalem.
2007-09-06 03:21:40 · answer #4 · answered by PcCowboy 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Catholics use a variety of Bibles. Personally, I use the Douay-Rheims Bible and the New American Bible - Catholic Edition. I also have a Vulgate, but honestly my Latin isn't what it used to be.
I know more than a few Catholics who use the KJV in addition to others.
As for the Gideon Bible, I haven't seen one in years, but from my memory, they are not the same - Gideon's Bible is a "version" of the KJV.
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CJ: answer the question - or do you have nothing better to do than spread lies and uneducated opinions about the Catholic Church?
2007-09-06 03:25:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
I have the Catholic study version of the NAB.
The Giddeons are a Protestant organization. The only difference, really, is there are more books in the Catholic bible, following the Alexandrian cannon.
These are the 'deutero-canonical' books,l and there is NOTHING apocryphal about them! They are well-known to biblical scholars.
2007-09-06 03:24:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
The Union where my brother works gave him a Bible in Honor of our Mother, wheb she passed away. It is a Catholic Bible (Mom did not like Catholics) and it is indeed 'The New American Bible' In death I don't think it matters that it was a Catholic Bible. Mom was saved, and a Chridtian.
Sadly Mom was mistreated by Grandma because Mom refused to become Catholic. I hold no ill feelings for Grandma.
2007-09-06 03:23:31 · answer #7 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 6⤊ 3⤋
Catholic- Its the only authentic one where the Holy Spirit Remains in tack. Yes there have been revised edition but only for clarity in the English language the meanings stay the same
2007-09-06 03:21:15 · answer #8 · answered by Gods child 6 · 5⤊ 4⤋
they use their own word of GOD with the apocrypha
included. usually in King James edition.
2007-09-06 03:29:33 · answer #9 · answered by Judy E. T 4 · 1⤊ 7⤋