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From: tim@unc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: You gotta be kidding.....
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Date: Thu, 27-Oct-83 21:18:21 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 27 21:18:21 1983
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All the Bibles discussed here have been, if I am not mistaken, Protestant
versions of the Bible, created and verified by Protestants, and thus missing
a few of the chapters of the Catholic versions.  What do people think of the
major Catholic editions in terms of scholarliness; that is, accuracy?  What
is important to me in a Bible is its faithfulness to the original source,
since I have even less faith in revisers of holy books than their authors.

The Bible I use is The Jerusalem Bible, given to me long ago in the
underground warrens of St. Charles Catholic Preparatory Academy.  Not being
a scholar of Hebrew, Aramaic, or Septuagint Greek, it is difficult for me to
verify claims by reference to the original, so I wonder what others think,
and on what grounds their beliefs are based.
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Tim Maroney, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
duke!unc!tim (USENET), tim.unc@csnet-relay (ARPA)