Not to be confused with New American Standard Bible.
New American Bible
Full name
The New American Bible
Abbreviation
NAB
Complete Bible published
1970
Derived from
Confraternity Bible
Textual basis
NT: Novum Testamentum Graece 25th edition. OT: Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia with Septuagint and Dead Sea Scrolls influence. Deuterocanonicals: Septuagint, Dead Sea Scrolls, and some Vulgate influence.
Translation type
Formal equivalence (from the Preface), moderate use of dynamic equivalence.
Reading level
High School
Revision
New American Bible Revised Edition
Religious affiliation
Catholic Church
Webpage
bible.usccb.org/bible
Genesis 1:1–3
In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless wasteland, and darkness covered the abyss, while a mighty wind swept over the waters.
Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light.
John 3:16
Yes, God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him may not die but may have eternal life.
The New American Bible (NAB) is an English translation of the Bible first published in 1970. The 1986 Revised NAB is the basis of the revised Lectionary, and it is the only translation approved for use at Mass in the Latin Church Catholic dioceses of the United States and the Philippines,[1][2] and the 1970 first edition is also an approved Bible translation by the Episcopal Church in the United States.[3][4]
Stemming originally from the Confraternity Bible, a translation of the Vulgate by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the project transitioned to translating the original biblical languages in response to Pope Pius XII's 1943 encyclical Divino afflante Spiritu. The translation sponsored by the U.S. bishops' committee on the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine and was carried out in stages by members of the Catholic Biblical Association of America (CBA) "from the Original Languages with Critical Use of All the Ancient Sources" (as the title pages state). These efforts eventually became the New American Bible under the liturgical principles and reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965).
^"Liturgy: Questions about the Scriptures used during Mass". USCCB.
^"Liturgical Books In The English Speaking World". United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Retrieved 26 October 2011.
^"The Bible". Episcopal Church. 2011-07-11. Archived from the original on 2019-06-19. Retrieved 2019-06-14.
^The Canons of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church: Canon 2: Of Translations of the Bible Archived 2015-07-24 at the Wayback Machine
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