New American Bible Revised Edition

New American Bible Revised Edition
Full nameNew American Bible Revised Edition
AbbreviationNABRE
Complete Bible
published
March 9, 2011
Derived fromConfraternity Bible, New American Bible
Textual basis
Translation typeFormal equivalence (from the Preface), moderate use of dynamic equivalence.
Reading levelHigh School
CopyrightConfraternity of Christian Doctrine
Webpagebible.usccb.org/bible

In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth—and the earth was without form or shape, with darkness over the abyss and a mighty wind sweeping over the waters—

Then God said: Let there be light, and there was light.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.

The New American Bible Revised Edition (NABRE) is an English-language Catholic translation of the Bible, the first major update in 20 years to the New American Bible (NAB),[4] which was translated by members of the Catholic Biblical Association and originally published in 1970.[5] Released on March 9, 2011, the NABRE consists of the 1986 revision of the NAB New Testament with a fully revised Old Testament approved by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2010.[4]

The NABRE is approved for Catholic personal use.[6] Although the revised Lectionary based on the original New American Bible is still the sole translation approved for use at Mass in the dioceses of the United States,[7] the NABRE New Testament is currently being revised so that American Catholics can read the same Bible translation in personal study and devotion that they hear in Mass.[8]

  1. ^ "Preface to the Revised New American Bible Old Testament". 2011. Retrieved 31 December 2023. Where the Old Testament translation supposes the received text—Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek, as the case may be—ordinarily contained in the best-known editions, as the original or the oldest extant form, no additional remarks are necessary. Where the translators have departed from those received texts, e.g., by following the Septuagint rather than the Masoretic text, accepting a reading of what is judged to be a better textual tradition, as from a Qumran manuscript, or by emending a reading apparently corrupted in transmission, such changes are recorded in the revised edition of the Textual Notes on the New American Bible.
  2. ^ "Preface to the Revised New American Bible Old Testament". 2011. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
  3. ^ Cahill, Michael (1990). "Review of The New American Bible, Revised New Testament (authorized by Confraternity of Christian Doctrine)". The Catholic Biblical Quarterly. 52 (1): 166–168. ISSN 0008-7912. JSTOR 43718069.
  4. ^ a b "Revised Edition of New American Bible Approved for Publication, Will Be Available in Variety of Formats March 9". USCCB Office of Media Relations. 6 January 2011. Archived from the original on 8 January 2011.
  5. ^ Maher, John (1970-08-24). "Publication of New Bible Translation Announced". Catholic News Service. pp. 18–20. Retrieved 2023-02-06.
  6. ^ "Approved Translations of the Bible". USCCB. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  7. ^ "Liturgy: Questions about the Scriptures used during Mass". USCCB.
  8. ^ Bauman, Michelle. "New American Bible to be revised into single translation". Catholic News Agency. Retrieved 14 January 2015.