Yes, folks, we have arrived at NABRE release week! If you go to the USCCB website, the NABRE page is already beginning to be updated with information about the upcoming publishers of the NABRE, as well as an entire page on the new NABRE Penitential Psalms and the Suffering Servant Songs of Isaiah, articles, and an NABRE quiz. More to come later.
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I am pleased to see that the Catholic Book Publishing Company releasing the NABRE this month. They currently have the best edition available with their Medium Size Deluxe Gift Edition. It has a leather cover, quality paper and binding (which makes it slightly thicker than some), and gold edges with the fan tab markings for finding the books easily. It also has maps, charts, dictionary, many full color sections with devotions and illustrations from Bible stories, and the 3-year lectionary. Wow, when a Protestant Bible says "Gift Edition", it usually means newsprint bound in cardboard, but that is certainly not the case here. I was hoping to get a World Press edition NABRE with the red-letters and thumb-tabs from CBPC but it doesn't look like that is forthcoming yet, but I think I would be just as well with the other. The CBPC also has the most even text/notes per column spacing I have seen from any publisher. I do wish it had the geographical maps with coordinated index like in the Oxford New Annotated RSV, but I do have something similar in booklet form from Rose Publishing.
Jonny,
Do you have a link to that edition? I tried looking for an NABRE on their site, but with no success.
I was referring to a NAB gift Bible currently available. http://www.catholicbookpublishing.com/ShowProduct.aspx?ProductID=574&DepartmentID=58
I think that the forthcoming Gift Editions mentioned in the USCCB link you provided would probably be of the same quality, only with the NABRE text instead. For some reason CBPC is not advertising the NABRE editions on their website as of yet.
I put a pre-order in at Amazon for the Oxford NABRE large print in leather. I was torn between the St. Benedict Bible and the Oxford. The St. Benedict offered more in the way of maps, lectionary reading listings, etc, but large print won out!
Did I miss something or did does the NABRE quiz omit the answer key?
If it does omit it, it is shockingly sloppy!
Here it is:
http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/quiz-answers.shtml
The slogan is in good fun, and close to some of those that appeared here during your contest, Timothy. And yet to have it be the official one on the USCCB website doesn't seem very appropriate to the seriousness of releasing an updated translation of the Bible...just saying.
Matt,
I'll be honest I don't mind it at all. At least they are trying to do some new things, not the same old stuff. If only some of the other Catholic Bible (license holders) would do the same.
BTW: I wouldn't have mind seeing them go with the Mr. Rogers classic statement: "Won't you be my NABRE." ;)
I would be very greatful if someone would post photographs of their new NABRE - including photo(s) of the inside pages. I'm curious to find out what the notes portions look like in the new addition(s). Especially in the St. Benedict's Press versions - so if you have photos..it would be most appreciated (since the St. Benedict's versions can be tough to find - even in Catholic Bookstores) - and the photos they put on their site leave a little to be desired.
Although I've not had it long, I'm finding that the Ignatius RSV-CE Study Bible (New Testament) is the one I find myself turning to the most (due to the Notes and also the text is so easy on the eyes).
I will probably always keep a few different editions of the Bible around, yet I would love to find a good primary reading Bible - one with some notes and one where the pages are not too transparent. Don't know about all of you, but there is something comforting about coming back to the same edition (same actual book) time and time again.
I'm looking forward to seeing what Catholic Book Publishers do with the NABRE (I suspect that they will make editions similar to what they are doing now with the NAB).
I'm even looking more forward to seeing what St. Benedict Press does with the larger Print version that I hear will be out later this year.
Stephen,
Be sure that I will post some photos once i receive my copies. I ordered a Saint Benedict Press and 2 Oxford editions.
"Won't you be my NABRE" wouldn't be a Biblical pun in the way that "Love your NABRE" is.
I'm fairly impressed by the marketing of this new translation -- it seems that Confraternity has gotten a lot of publicity and awareness for a relatively small cost. If only Ignatius Press could learn from them ....
I ended up ordering the Oxford large print leather edition. However, Amazon is informing that it may not arrive until Friday. It is too bad that the roll-out was not coordinated to have volumes delivered on Wednesday, in the same way that many anticipated books (such as the Harry Potter are delivered on the date of their official release.
Theophrastus,
I agree 100% about Ignatius.
As I mentioned above, I ordered the Oxford editions from
Amazon and also directly from Saint Benedict Press. In both cases, I do not expect them this week. We shall see.
For the record, being the Mr. Rogers fan I am, I considered "Won't you be my NABRE?"
Unfortunately, rolling out all editions at the same time a la Harry Potter requires considerably more market power than the Confraternity can muster!
We are on the eve of a major step in having a standard Bible translation (at least in the United States) for devotional reading, Mass, and Liturgy of the Hours... think of what an awesome day that will be! To be able to have the same readings to memorize on the tables of our hearts... the same our priests would be praying over constantly the year through.
How awful will it be for those pious priests who must knowingly immerse themselves in prayer with the inferior 1970 text in preparing their homilies: because that is what will be read by and proclaimed to the masses....
I know I seem over dramatic, and I would like to imagine that our priests have time to examine a multitude of alternate translations. But now that the former NAB is about to be officially usurped by a superior, more accurate rendition of Sacred Scripture, even to the point of the old edition being permanently removed from publication, how appropriate does it seem to have a complete conversion to take place. After all, isn't the NABRE really the "final" form of a CCD Bible over that has spent over 60 years in process?
I know this will take time, and that there is a lot of red tape... but I pray that this process can be expedited by hard work through the vision of zealous souls working for the good of the Church.
"Love Your NABRE"
Sounds very post Vatican 2 hippie to me. Perfect match for the Ordinary Form and the Charismatic movement. Should have used this logo in the late 60's.
Anonymous - its not that bad!
Harry Potter who?
In an effort to avoid language with unsavory connotations, how does NABRE handle Hebrews 11:37?
Namely, "They were stoned, sawn in two." To which some cynics add, "and felt no pain."
Anon,
The NABRE NT is the revised version from 1986, so it remains the same.
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