Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Rare tabbed edition. 1966 First edition. Pages in excellent little used condition. No notes or highlighting. Name and small gift message in front. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> This twofold need has long been appreciated and strong action was taken in France when under the influence of the late P?re Chifflot Editions du Cerf appealed to the Dominican Biblical School in Jerusalem to meet it. This led to the production of separate fascicules with a full textual critical apparatus for the individual books of the Bible and with extensive notes. Subsequently in 1956 a one-volume edition appeared which came to be known popularly as La Bible de J?rusalem: a careful system of cross- reference enabled this edition to include all the information from the fascicules which could be useful to the thoughtful reader or to the student. This present volume is its English equivalent. The introductions and notes are a direct translation from the French though revised and brought up to date in some places–account being taken of the decisions and general implications of the Second Vatican Council. The translation of the biblical text itself could clearly not be made from the French. In the case of a few books the initial draft was made from the French and was then compared word for word with the Hebrew or Aramaic by the General Editor and amended where necessary to ensure complete conformity with the ancient text. For the much greater part the initial drafts were made from the Hebrew or Greek and simultaneously compared with the French when questions of variant reading or interpretation arose. (MP)