What is your View about the Nab Notes?

[TruthisBeauty7]

From a real Catholic Point of view what is your View about the Nab Notes which were supported by Catholic bishops?

[I_Believe]

Originally Posted by TruthisBeauty7

From a real Catholic Point of view what is your View about the Nab Notes which were supported by Catholic bishops?

I don't have a problem with them, but I read the DR and refer to the Haydock notes :
http://haydock1859.tripod.com/id15.html

I had a NAB, but gave it to a friend who is interested in joining the Church.

[scott1228]

My view of the notes is the same as the translation... dim.

I think you would be better off not reading the notes at all than reading those notes. I like to read the Navarre New Testament.

Scott

[Shin]

It is best to stick with the Douay as the translation is based on Catholic thought, the words are given in the sense they are normally used by the Church and tradition in past writings. There are insights you will only arrive at by reading the Douay.

The NAB text is to be used only as an alternative, for comparison, not preferred in general. The NAB notes? Take what is good and toss the rest, if you have the knowledge level to do so -- or ignore them entirely.

Some times the hierarchy is in better shape than other times.

[I_Believe]

Originally Posted by Shin

Some times the hierarchy is in better shape than other times.

That's Golden

[Cluny]

They seem to be rather standard to me--nothing earth-shakingly different from other Bibles.

But the TEXT of the NAB, as I've said elsewhere, tries so hard to be different that it becomes (for me) clumsy and eccentric. I have a difficult time reading it aloud as a liturgical version.

[MikeDunphy]

I think most of the notes in the New American Bible are harmless or even a little helpful, if taken with a grain of salt and only as a supplement to other, more Spiritually-inspired commentary. I question the scholarship on a few of the notes.