Some of your teaching staff and young people may be familiar with Biblical translations other than the one(s) used in your school religious education program. It may be helpful to provide your religion teachers with some background information concerning the various translations and how they came to be.
There are many translations of the Bible, and they have developed over time. The Hebrew Canon was determined in 100 AD, and includes all that the current Old Testament has, except for the books of Tobit, Judith, Wisdom Sirach, Baruch, 1 and 2 Maccabees, the last six chapters of Esther, and Daniel 3:24-90; 13,14. The rabbis did not consider those passages to be divinely inspired.
The Catholic Church added those passages to the Greek translation of the Old Testament, the Septuagint. They are sometimes called "deuterocanonical" because they are not found in the Hebrew canon. Jews and Protestants refer to the ‘extra’ books from the Greek Old Testament as the "Apocrypha."
Late in the third century, St. Jerome translated the Bible into Latin and that version, the Vulgate, was used for centuries. The first Catholic version of the Bible in English, called the Douay-Rheims Bible, appeared between 1582-1609.
The development of modern biblical study and more knowledge of ancient languages made a contemporary English version desirable. In 1943, Pope Pius XII encouraged new translations based on the study and use of original Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts. American Catholic biblical scholars produced the New American Bible from the original translations in 1970.
Paul VI asked scholars to produce a common Catholic-Protestant Bible. Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Protestant, and Jewish biblical scholars produced such a translation. The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Catholic Edition published in 1993 has the approval of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. The "Catholic Edition" has two minor changes, which appear in the books of Esther and Daniel.
Lectionary readings in the United States continue to come from the New American Bible, revised in 1991.
New American BibleSt. Joseph Edition, Large Size
This edition provides easy-to-read type, many photographs, self-explaining maps, a Bible Dictionary, and a doctrinal Bible index. It is designed to be user-friendly for students.
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