New American Bible

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The New American Bible (NAB) is a Catholic English translation of the Bible first published in 1970. 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 was sponsored by the U.S. bishops' committee on the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine and 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). A revision of the New Testament was published in 1986. Since 1998, the NAB with revised NT is the basis of the sole English-language lectionary approved for use during Mass in the United States...

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