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...verily, English-speaking Christians in search of Scripture suffered, not long ago, few perturbations. Protestants reached for the Authorized, or King James, version of 1611. Roman Catholics consulted the Douay-Rheims translation, first issued in 1609 but revised during the 18th century to resemble or duplicate in most particulars the memorable cadences and phrasing of the King James. For some two centuries, readers of either of these Bibles could feel that the word they sought was the Word, that they had access to the linguistic unity enjoyed by humankind before the Tower of Babel, "And the whole earth...
...AMERICAN BIBLE (1970). A rigorously contemporary, sometimes spare, U.S. Catholic rendition. Also a translation from the original languages, it and the Jerusalem Bible are supplanting the Douay-Rheims Bible, a Catholic version contemporary with, but inferior to, the King James...
...N.A.B.'s narrative passages are the major beneficiaries of the decision to stress clarity over resonance. Douay...
...born. One of these states that the New Testament word for the "brothers" of Jesus could mean either blood brothers or merely relatives, but the N.A.B. sides with the latter. In Acts 17:26, the N.A.B. follows other translations in saying that mankind comes from "one stock" instead of Douay's "one man." In Douay, 1 Corinthians 9:5 said that the Apostles had "a right to take about ... a woman, a sister," but the N.A.B. says candidly that what they had was "the right to marry...
Missing Dicta. Despite the imprimatur of Washington's conservative Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle, the N.A.B. enshrines many Protestant critical theories that have won wide acceptance in Catholic seminaries in the past 20 years. The Douay preface once reminded everyone that since God inspired the Bible, it could have no "formal error," and that the church must be the ultimate interpreter. These dicta are now missing. In other departures from Douay, the N.A.B. questions the Bible's strict historical accuracy, avoids old insistences that Matthew (which contains key passages bearing on Catholic dogma) was the earliest Gospel...