Bible

This page provides direction on good  Bible resources for Catholics!

The document below explains the Church’s position on Bible interpretation, the sources it pulls from in disseminating meaning to the Faithful of the Church and Church doctrine.

 http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/PBCINTER.HTM

 This document gives recommendations for the type of Church approved Bible to use for study of scripture.

http://www.catholic.com/library/Bible_Translations_Guide.asp

 The Bible online – The New Jerusalem Bible – most recommended by scholars for those interested in understanding and learning more about scripture

From www.catholic.org – the New Jerusalem Bible – can read all verses in the Bible, accessed by Book, chapter and verse with click on notations (underlined highlights) from Bible scholars and Church teachings

http://www.catholic.org/bible/

 New Jerusalem Bible

The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) is a Catholic translation of the Bible published in 1985. The New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) has become the most widely used Roman Catholic Bible outside of the United States. It has the imprimatur of Cardinal George Basil Hume.

Like its predecessor, the Jerusalem Bible, the New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) version is translated “directly from the Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic.” The 1973 French translation, the Bible de Jerusalem, is followed only “where the text admits to more than one interpretation.” Introductions and notes, with some modifications, are taken from the Bible de Jerusalem.

Source: The Very Reverend Dom (Joseph) Henry Wansbrough, OSB, MA (Oxon), STL (Fribourg), LSS (Rome), a monk of Ampleforth Abbey and a biblical scholar. He was General Editor of the New Jerusalem Bible. “New Jerusalem Bible, Regular Edition”, pg. v.

 Watching translations of the Bible (this taken from the New Jerusalem Bible) –  words can mean different things – here the word “left” is used instead of “give up” – entirely different meaning.

 Matthew 19:29

²⁹ And everyone who has left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children or land for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times as much, and also inherit eternal life.

 This reference is a Catholic resource of over 2,000 scripture passages that explain and defend the Catholic Faith  – scriptural references for the Catholic Faith (ie. sources of our Traditions and traditions)

 http://www.scripturecatholic.com/