Christian Community Bible (New Cover): Small, Hardbound, Index (2024)

2013:

Biblical scholars, linguists, editors and copy editors from different countries worked together for several years for a completely new revised edition of the Christian Community Bible (CCB), which is what you now have in your hands.

This new revised edition of the CCB has the following main features:

● All biblical cross references have been verified, with some removed and new ones added.

● Words beginning in either capital or lower case are now spelled consistently.

● It has brought the text closer to the original languages in a number of passages.

● A biblical pronunciation guide is added in the glossary.

● The verse references are cited in the commentary when texts are quoted for easy reference.

● New commentaries on the Psalms, thanks to the Grail Society for allowing us to use their commentaries.

● A very careful revision of the text of the four Gospels even as many of these small changes already appeared in recent editions.

● A new layout of the complete Pastoral Bible though the "pastoral approach" to the Bible remains unchanged:

●   fidelity to the original languages;

●   introductions to and commentaries on the text following the great tradition of biblical scholarship as

●   a tool to help the reader to understand the text better and to relate it with one's life and faith;

●   English rendition for readers who have English as a second language.

2023:

Ten years later we are adding the following updates:

●   Change the word Yahweh with "the Lord".

The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments issued a letter on June 29, 2008, which included a number of directives on the translation and the pronunciation of the Divine Name as signified in the sacred tetragrammaton in the Liturgy. The directives indicate that the name of God in the form of the tetragrammaton is neither to be used nor pronounced in the Liturgy, and that the translation of the Divine Name, in accord with Liturgiam authenticam no. 41, is to be rendered by the equivalent of Adonai/Kyrios, in English, “Lord.”

●   Fonts are now of the same size. In previous editions, we placed in smaller fonts some texts from the Old

●   Fonts are now of the same size. In previous editions, we placed in smaller fonts some texts from the Old

●   Testament, which, in general, are not used in the liturgy.

●   Proper names: all proper names have been revised and their spelling standardized when necessary.

Copyright © 2023 Bernardo Hurault

 

Editors and copy editors: Patricia Grogan, FCJ, Roger Butland, Adolph Dias, Ma. Susana C. Basmayor, Miriam Cruz, John Ledesma, SDB, Alberto Rossa, CMF

 

Imprimatur: Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines by Cirilo R. Almario, Jr.

Chairman, Episcopal Commission for the Biblical Apostolate

 

Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 4.3 x 2 inches

ISBN: 9789887668220