Tuesday, July 15, 2008

I asked whether the New American Bible's revised Old Testament would be out early next year as anticipated, and Fr. Boadt said he had every reason to think so.

He acknowledged that a few publishers are poised to produce it or related resources. The 4/15 deadline to publishers was pushed to 6/15 and, as of last week, nothing had been received. But, with only two books still being worked, he expects things to move along.

I told him that I've been looking forward to the revision for a long time.

He mentioned, yet again, the editor's1 decision to move chunks of text around in the 1970 edition, a judgment he clearly disagrees with.2 I said it's a reason for people to distrust the NAB translation altogether ... and the liturgy that uses it. He shook his head, "People think it's all connected but it isn't. Completely different committees are responsible for each piece."

1 Skehan?

2 E.g., Hosea 2:1-3 was moved to the end of chapter 3 as well as a reordering of verses in chapter 2, the latter done without explanation. I have "the red book," Textual Notes on the New American Bible, Old Testament only, but it's really terse and usually just lists where other versions were followed, LXX, V, P, etc., instead of the MT.

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