New American Bible Revised Edition

The New American Bible Revised Edition is a substantial revision of the New American Bible, undertaking a major revision of the entire NAB Old Testament and Psalms while retaining the 1986 New Testament unchanged. It is a complete Catholic Bible, translated from the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, with an Old Testament base drawn from modern critical texts and a translation philosophy that may be described as moderate formal and contemporary. Its predecessors and base translations are the NAB of 1970, the first complete Catholic Bible rendered into English from the original languages by American Catholic scholars, and the NAB New Testament of 1986. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops describes the edition as the culmination of nearly twenty years of work. As with earlier editions in the series, it is widely used in Catholic study, teaching, and devotional reading in the English-speaking world.