Uniquely American, this popular translation is the easiest to understand Catholic edition of the Bible. This modern translation was prepared by over 50 scholars to capture the thought and individual style of the inspired writers while still making this translation easy to use for all ages.

The New American Bible is the perfect Bible for your Catholic family and friends. It's the official Catholic Bible — as authorized by the Bishop's Committee of Christian Doctrine.

• Concise, authoritative notes
• Revised New Testament and Psalms
• Family register and full-color maps (2405 and 2406 editions only)
• Chronological listing of Christ's miracles and discourses
• List of the Popes
• Book introductions
• Cross references
• Footnotes
• Maps
• Presentation page
• Red letter (except 2401)

Regarded throughout the English-speaking world as the standard English translation of the Holy Scriptures, the JPS TANAKH has been acclaimed by scholars, rabbis, lay leaders, Jews, and Christians alike. The JPS TANAKH is an entirely original translation of the Holy Scriptures into contemporary English, based on the Masoretic (the traditional Hebrew) text. It is the culmination of three decades of collaboration by academic scholars and rabbis, representing the three largest branches of organized Judaism in the United States.

Not since the third century B.C.E., when 72 elders of the tribes of Israel created the Greek translation of Scriptures known as the Septuagint, has such a broad-based committee of Jewish scholars produced a major Bible translation. In executing this monumental task, the translators made use of the entire range of biblical interpretation, ancient and modern, Jewish and non-Jewish. They drew upon the latest findings in linguistics and archaeology, as well as the work of early rabbinic and medieval commentators, grammarians, and philologists. The resulting text is a triumph of literary style and biblical scholarship, unsurpassed in accuracy and clarity.