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Saint Joseph Bible-NABRE-Apocrypha

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The printing and layout facilitate just about anyone reading and enjoying the experience.

This is a handsome bible. However, if you are purchasing this for someone with poor eyesight and are expecting something with very large print, you may be disappointed. Look for bibles with "very large print" instead if that's your situation.

The book is of good quality, well bound and large print for my short arms. It came very quickly and well packaged

The St Joseph bible was exactly as posted and the book itself was in great condition. The shipping was on time as suggested. The Bible itself has many good features for a beginner, with highlights of the word of God and the understanding of many new terms and the large print is a lttle larger then rgular print. I would recommend this Bible to a new reader of the Bible.

Excellent Bible for the price. Large print which is easy on the eyes

We have five Bibles in our home, and we like this one best. We like the New American translation, the size of the Bible and the print size as well, the binding and cover are very attractive, and the commentary in the St. Joseph's version is very helpful. Moreover, we are surprised that this high quality book is priced quite reasonably.

I am pleased with the size and color of this bible. Two things I don't like: It does not have words of Jesus in red and the "large print" was not as large as I thought it would be. Order Giant print to get a larger print. I decided to keep it since neither of those two things will keep me from reading it. There was nothing in the description to let you know that the red text was not included. The footnotes are great.

I received this book very quickly, I loved it! It is exactly as described! What a great deal ... Thank you.

I really love the book, the print is large and the only thing that would really add is if it had a book mark ribbon.

Recipe for making a New American Bible:

1) Start with a very fine re-translation of the Vulgate in 1941.
2) Add Pope Pius XII's 1943 encyclical letter Divino Afflante Spiritu, encouraging translations in the original languages.
3) Assemble a group of liberal American Catholic Scholars to paraphrase the bible with inclusive, flat, uninspiring language. Knead well.
4) Add a large heaping of disregard by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to guidelines promulgated by the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. Blend until smooth.
5) Simmer for 29 years, and publish in 1970.
6) Next, have the American bishops realize that the just-published New Testament (refer to previous step) paraphrases too much. Retranslate, being sure to use healthy doses of dynamic equivalence for the sake of gender-neutral language to please the twin Baals of radical feminism and political correctness. Place on lowest rack in oven in a pan of water to keep moist.
7) Bake 16 more years and republish. That should bring your bible up to the year 1986. At this point your bible should be very bland and tasteless; that is ok because it is an NAB.
8) Next, have the American bishops realize that Psalms from the 1970 edition are also very lame. Revise Psalms, using inclusive language techniques from steps 3 and 5 to ensure that most Catholics, including Pope John Paul II and other Vatican officials will not be happy.
9) Publish this revised version in 1991, against the wishes of said Catholics (see previous step); this will make it necessary for the Scripture portions included in the liturgy of the English Mass to be revised. That's right, you've published a translation of the bible that cannot be read in mass.
10) As icing, include literary-critical footnotes and commentary by modernists and rationalists that assume a skeptical approach to miracles, prophecies and authorship much of it in direct opposition to Church teaching.
11) You're done! You now have a flat, condescending, putrid translation from a bunch of liberal scholars and bishops with inclusive language that has to be changed to be used in the Mass. Enjoy.

"...It is, not to put too fine a point on it, a wretched translation. It succeeds in being, at the same time, loose, stilted, breezy, vulgar, opaque, and relentlessly averse to literary grace. The bishops had the NAB updated to the Revised New American Bible (RNAB), but Rome had objections to that and hurriedly appointed a committee to fix it up into what might be called the Amended Revised New American Bible (ARNAB), which will soon become mandatory in lectionary use. Technically, the RSV and New Jerusalem are still permitted but, with ARNAB as the mandatory translation of the future, nobody has any interest in printing lectionaries or Mass guides using those versions. There is the additional oddity that you cannot buy an ARNAB Bible, since only the pericopes (liturgical readings) exist in ARNAB-talk. So Catholics do not have a Bible for personal or group reading that uses the same text that they hear at Mass." -- Father John Neuhaus, 2001