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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Name in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This 1973 revision was important enough to warrant a completely new edition of the English-language Jerusalem Bible. In this new edition the introductions and notes are drawn from that revision with some additional changes especially in the introductions and notes to the New Testament to take into account further recent advances in scholarship. The biblical text of the first edition was occasionally criticised for following the French translation more closely than the originals. In this edition the translation has been made directly from the Hebrew Greek or Aramaic. Only where the text admits of more than one interpretation has the option chosen by the Bible de J?rusalem been followed unless permission to adopt another view was granted by the editors of that work. The character of the Jeru- salem Bible as primarily a study Bible has been kept constantly in mind. and for that reason accuracy of translation has been a prime consideration. Paraphrase has been avoided more rigorously than in the first edition: care has been taken that in parallel passages (for example in the first three gospels) the similarities and differences should be mirrored exactly in the translation. Key terms in the originals especially those theological key concepts on which there is a major theological note have been rendered throughout (with very few exceptions) by the same English word instead of by the variety of words used in the first edition. At the same time the widespread liturgical use of this version has been taken the same time the (MP)