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Saint Joseph Giant Print Bible-NABRE

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My old Bible was very worn with smaller type. This version is great. I have a difficult time reading for long periods of time if the print is small.

One problem is that the footnotes are still in the smaller type, so I may need a page magnifier for reading the smaller print.

The price is not bad. The binding is excellent quality. I am pleased with my purchase.

This edition is very easy to read even in low light and with the leather cover it will last a very long time making it worth the extra expense.

Very good value. I ordered the large print. With a leather cover. I would highly recommend it. I purchased it for a Catholic Scription Study.

The NAB has been a favorite of mine for my entire adult life. Not only is it a reliable translation, but it is also an absolute treasure for all the annotations it offers. It is also very useful for its cross references. When a statement is actually a quote (or near quote) from other biblical texts, it notes where to find those other texts. It is very good for sermon preparation as well as for personal study and for parish bible classes.

I have bought this bible for myself and also a number of my friends. We are all thrilled with it....the large print is wonderful!!! If you are having trouble now seeing the print in your own bible you will love this one too...it makes it so much easier on the eyes and a joy to read. It makes a wonderful gift!

It is a great bible and the print is large and very readable. The only criticism is that the notes are at the end of the chapter rather than the bottome of each page that they are referring to. But this is really a minor thing. The pages are a bit thin but in a book this size and weight, it has to be. I would certainly recommend it. But if you want index tabs for the Catholic edition, you must order than some where else. The ones on Amazon don't cover all the books in the Catholic Bible. Try [...]

Beautiful bible. It's everything I wanted. I hope others will enjoy it also.

IT SAYS LEATHER BOUND, BUT IT IS REALLY SOUTH BOUND. THE BIBLE IS GOOD. JUST NOT LEATHER BOUND

The New American Bible: St. Joseph Edition is easy to read and the perfect bible for practicing Catholics!

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