I have been looking for a Caholic Bible thinking their was a choice of the Old or New Testament only. Instead, I find such an assortment I am not sure which to buy.
2007-09-09 13:09:39 · 9 answers · asked by memories88 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
All Catholic Bibles are required to contain the book of Sirach.
Though not included in the Hebrew Bible after the first century A.D., nor accepted by Protestants, the Book of Sirach has always been recognized by the Catholic Church as divinely inspired and canonical.
Here is a link to the book of Sirach in the New American Bible: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/sirach/sirach1.htm
With love in Christ.
2007-09-09 15:49:07 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any Catholic Bible will contain Sirach, unless it is a New Testament only. "The Wisdom of Sirach" may be titled as Wisdom, Sirach or Ecclesiasticus, though, depending on the version. It's the same book though, and of all the deutero-canonical books, it seems to me to be the most indispensable. I recommend it to everyone.
As far as Catholic versions, go with the New Jerusalem Bible, it's head and shoulders over the rest. But if you need something that roughly follows the liturgy, you can take the New American Bible. Hard to recommend it other than that, though.
Peace to you.
EDIT: Hestia, specifically CATHOLIC Bibles will often have the deuterocanonical books integrated into the Old Testament in the same order as the Septuagint. Ecumenical translations (like the New Revised Standard Version) will have a separate Apocrypha section.
2007-09-09 13:17:09 · answer #2 · answered by Orpheus Rising 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no particular "Catholic Bible" that contains the full 73 books of the original Bible. All Bibles contained the 73 divinely inspired books until a few hundred years ago. Today there are still a number of different translations that are complete. The New American Bible is the one used at Mass, but several other translations exist that do not have any of the original texts missing.
2007-09-09 13:39:45 · answer #3 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
New Revised Standard Catholic Edition, New Revised Standard Ecumenical Edition, Revised Standard Catholic Edition, Revised Standard Ecumenical Edition, 1611 King James, 1769 Apocrypha, Confraternity Edition, New Jerusalem Bible, Douay Rheims, Bishop's Bible, Geneva Bible, Tyndale's Bible, Breton's Septuagint...
2007-09-09 13:25:29 · answer #4 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The New American or the New Jerusalem Bible both contain the Deutero-Canonical books (called the Apocrypha by some) - and that would include Sirach.
2007-09-09 13:18:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Any Catholic Bible will have all 46 OT books and 27 NT books; The Douay-Rhiems, the RSV-CE, the NAB, the Jerusalem Bible - any of those are good Catholic Bibles.
2007-09-10 03:25:13 · answer #6 · answered by Daver 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All catholic bibles contain the old and new testament. New american bible.
2007-09-09 13:45:40 · answer #7 · answered by pepgurli 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
New American Bible
2007-09-09 13:15:05 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look for one with the Apocrypha....
2007-09-09 13:17:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anne Hatzakis 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋