The Jerusalem Bible (Standard Edition)

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The name " Yahweh" has been replaced with "the LORD" throughout the Old Testament, and the Psalms have been completely replaced with the 1963 Grail Psalter. stop with the request for reviews 2) it needs to have the ability to turn the page versus scrolling down.

New Testament: La Bible de Jérusalem, Eclectic text with high correspondence to the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece with major variant readings from the Majority text and sacred tradition (i.Paperback version of The New Jerusalem Bible is recognised as one of today’s most accurate, clear and modern translations, the fruit of long collaboration between leading biblical scholars. The Jerusalem Bible was once the official translation of the Lectionary in Canada (now it is the NRSV-CE).

I thought that the notes of The Jerusalem would be similar in length to that of the New American Bible Revised Edition. This Bible is suited more for Scripture scholars and those who really want to learn more about different Catholic Bible translation.A quality production overall but, on very rare occasion, have found some of the print characters to be inconsistent or unclear. This claims to be the Reader's Edition (which should contain colour and black and white maps, a Chronological Table, Tables of Measures and Money) but it is actually just the Popular Edition (without the aforementioned extras).

The French portion of the Demonstration Volume is available online, [8] together with a single sample of the English translation. When it comes to Bible translations, readability and reliability are what count; and on both counts, the original JERUSALEM BIBLE stands alone. For all the people around the world who are discovering or revisiting the mysteries contained in the Scriptures, only a clear, understandable Bible translation will do. According to the notes, more weight will be given to the Septuagint in the translation of the Hebrew Bible Scriptures, though the Masoretic Text will remain the primary source. The NJB is one of the versions authorized to be used in services of the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion.

The first edition, containing the New Testament and the Psalms, was published in February 2018, and the full Bible in July 2019. This edition of The Jerusalem Bibleseemed to take another approach that I never encountered before: The verse number is located in the margin. In 1943 Pope Pius XII issued an encyclical letter, Divino afflante Spiritu, which encouraged Catholics to translate the scriptures from the Hebrew and Greek texts, rather than from Jerome's Latin Vulgate. Like its predecessor, the Jerusalem Bible, the New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) version is translated "directly from the Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic.

If you look at bible translation continum charts and the Wikipedia page for the Jerusalem Bible it is not a formal equivalence, it’s a dynamic translation. Formerly a senior lecturer in divinity at Christ's College, Liverpool, he studied at Upholland College in Lancashire, the Gregorian University, and the Biblical Institute in Rome, as well as L'École Biblique in Jerusalem.The Jerusalem Bible translation is a VERY dynamic translation, it’s a “thought-for-thought” translation vs “word-for-word” translation. This French translation served as the impetus for an English translation in 1966, the Jerusalem Bible. All materials contained on this site, whether written, audible or visual are the exclusive property of Catholic Online and are protected under U. This new translation – known as the New Jerusalem Bible – was freshly translated from the original languages and not tied to any French translation (except indirectly, because it maintained many of the stylistic and interpretive choices of the French Jerusalem Bible).