Magnificent edition of the New American Bible that features the largest type of any Catholic Bible in a comparable size. The focus is placed on the text, which is arranged for easy reading. Special Features: * Large, Easy-to-Read 10 pt. Type * Notes at the End of Each Book * Vatican II Constitution on Divine Revelation * Presentation Page * Family Record * Lands of the Bible in Full Color
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New American Bible a Giant Step...,
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This review is from: New American Bible: St. Joseph Edition (Hardcover)
Reading the bible has become a pleasure since obtaining this hardcover with "giant"
print ! No excuse for not picking up to read a daily message or discover how much we don't know about the basis for our beliefs.For Catholics the "Vatican II Constitution On Divine Revelation" is a nice addition, and the " Bible Dictionary " section is an excellent source of useful information; like who beside Noah knew that a "cubit"is the " distance from a man's elbow to the tip of his index finger"! Additionally , each major section of the bible has a "preface" and is followed with footnote explanations. A "Doctrinal Bible Index" at the end of this edition permits the reader to go directly to speecific areas of interest.
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This is hardly Catholic,
By Mclusky (Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: New American Bible: St. Joseph Edition (Hardcover)
I recieved one of these when went into RCIA and immediately noticed that something was off on this Bible. The "How to read the Bible" section is modernist at it's core, telling the reader to look at the Bible as more a bunch of mythological stories than anything else. The prose is very flat and boring and uninspiring. The footnotes are all modernist historical critical interpretations of the text, sapping the spiritual life out of the reading. If the Bible is to be a source of spiritual life than this is not going to cut it, especially if you have any background in a traditional Catholic understanding of things. I strongly urge anyone who reads this to buy the Douay Rheims Bible ( Challoner Edition) from Loreto Press, instead of the New American Bible. This goes great with the watered down sermons and Protestant pop hymns in your average Novus Ordo parish but aside from that it has no place in a traditional Catholic home or environment. You cannot go wrong with the Douay Rheims Bible if you are reading it for growth in the spiritual life. There is nothing Catholic in the NAB aside from some of the traditional artwork in it.
15 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
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Translation is fine, publication is blasphemous,
By J Mark "JM" (Santa Barbara, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: New American Bible: St. Joseph Edition (Hardcover)
HI, this is a beautiful bible, too bad the publisher had to ruin it by inserting a completely liberal, blasphemous 'How to read the bible" section. It is truly disgusting and I'm surprised other reviews have not commented. I guess they have not read that section. The whole essay can be labeled as an attack on the bible, I will only highlight a few more obvious issues. Anything in questions is a direct quote after which i've added some of my comments;
1- Page 23 "We do not possess a biography of Jesus, it is difficult to know whether the words or sayings attributed to Him are written exactly as He spoke them." So we really can't believe what we read in the bible???? 2 - Page 18 Biblical prophets are compared to "Negro" musicians in the following "We would never have produced our jazz music....without our Negro communities that are so sensitive to music rhythm.." 3 -Page 22; Miracles did not necessarily happen, some writers of the bible just put them in to make a point 4- Page 17 "...for Christians, the bible is inspired by God" insinuating that this is only our belief but is not necessarily true 5- Page 33, In the illustration God is show as a man. This is hardly appropriate 6- Page 24 "Most scientists hold that the human species has developed somehow from lower kinds of life" Directly contradicting biblical teaching that God created man 7- Page 18, regarding the book of Judges "..the conclusions which attributed all those atrocities to the command of God were imperfect..." The Church teaching is that all of this was the work of God. This directly challenges the Church teachings 8- Page 17 In answering 'why we should read the bible' "...many of our customs and often our outlook on life...is conditioned by Judeo-christian heritage...you can not possibly understand them without knowing this Judeo-Christian classic; the bible." So the bible is primary a piece of 'classic literature" ??? It then goes on to talk about other 'classic literature'. They should have simply stated that we should read the bible because it is the word of God. But it is obvious the author of this ultra liberal intro does not really believe in the bible. 9- Page 19 "The bible is mans word and God's word..." What does that say? We are left to try to figure out what to believe and what not to believe? The Church teaches that the bible is the complete work of God!! 10- Page 19 Talking about the composition of the bible; "A major disadvantage is that these books are not put together systematically as the books in a modern library." How rude! So the bible has a major disadvantage??? It is imperfect??? This is so anti-Christian 11- Page 20 It talks about how angels, clouds, fire, earthquakes, thunder, war and calamities are all just figures of speech! So another words these things did not really happen! Seems according to this intro there is very little to believe as truth in the bible!!! 12- Page 20 Relating to the Prophets of Israel it states; "These were groups of ecstatic persons...Music and dance heightened their exotic and vaguely exotic religious activities." How rude! These are holy biblical prophets he is degrading! These prophets were chosen by God! There is just too many attacks on our faith to even list on this review! It goes on and on and on undermining the divinity and authenticity of the bible. Catholic Book Publishing should be ashamed to reprint this garbage in the Saint Joseph Edition.
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