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Sacred
Scriptures
Compiler:
Chau
T. Phan
Note: There are many versions of the
Bible
in the modern English language.
Below are some of the versions available.
 AUDIO
BIBLE – DRAMATIZED Hear the New Revised Standard Version
[NRSV] in audio format.
The NRSV stands out among the many
translations
available today as the Bible translation that is the most widely
"authorized"
by the churches. It received the endorsement of thirty-three Protestant
churches. It received the imprimatur of the US and Canadian Conferences
of Catholic bishops. And it received the blessing of a leader of the
Greek
Orthodox Church.
Favorite Catholic versions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_English_Bible_translations#Roman_Catholic_translations
- New
American
Bible (NAB). Official Bible of the US Conference of Catholic
Bishops.
Index of all books of the Bible on the USCCB website: http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/
- 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. http://www.catholic.org/bible/
- Revised
Standard
Version (RSV) -- Catholic: http://www.ewtn.com/devotionals/biblesearch.asp
- Christian Community Bible,
Catholic Pastoral
Edition (with notes and commentaries), Claretian & Liguori
Publications.
Imprimatur, Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines. Most
widely
used version by Catholics in Third World countries.
Ecumenical Versions
- Revised
Standard
Version (RSV) http://quod.lib.umich.edu/r/rsv/browse.html
- New Revised Standard Version
(NRSV or NRS). Official
version of the National Council of Churches USA. The NRSV stands out
among
the many translations available today as the Bible translation that is
the most widely "authorized" by the churches. It received the
endorsement
of thirty-three Protestant churches. It received the imprimatur of the
American and Canadian Conferences of Catholic bishops. And it received
the blessing of a leader of the Greek Orthodox Church. The NRSV
is considered by scholars to be the most accurate translation available
today. The Society of Biblical Literature has chosen it as its main
translation,
and it is the translation used by all three of the major academic study
Bibles—the Oxford Annotated Bible, the New Interpreters Bible, and the
HarperCollins Study Bible. Independent university scholars
overwhelmingly
agree that it does the best job of rendering into English the Bible’s
original
Hebrew and Greek. http://www.ncccusa.org/newbtu/aboutnrs.html
- New International Version (NIV)
http://www.ibsstl.org/niv/index.php
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