I've seen some YouTube posts lately by some of the Catholic apologists, apparently talking about the best Bible translations (and/or offering rebuttals to Protestant videos on the same topic). I don't actually watch these videos, mind you, because I'm not interested in entering into any debates over it (and I suspect a lot of it has to do with the deuterocanonical books anyway, which, as far as I'm concerned, is a non-issue, since the Church fathers DID read them, and Jesus DID quote them), but as you know, I do have my favorite translations, and some that I feel pretty strongly are no good. In the early days of the Original Church videos, I did a video about this, and I talked about how I have certain test verses, that I use to check a translation. I'll post my video and my test verses later, in case you want to refresh your memory.

For now, those of you who have been following The Journey from the beginning know that when I started, I was using the NABRE as my starting point (and then making fresh translations of my own). But after a while I kept finding places where I was disappointed in the NAB, so then I started using the NRSVCE as my foundational English text.

Well... I just finished a book for Ascension Press (more on that project later) and they made me use the Ignatius Bible, which I always thought was just the NRSVCE - but it turns out it's not. It's a slightly altered version of the NRSVCE called the NRSV-2CE. When I first heard about this, I was like, "what the hell is this?" It's not online anywhere, except in the Ascension app, so it's not on Bible Gateway, which is my go-to browser-based digital Bible. And I thought they were only insisting on it because it's the one Jeff Cavins uses for the Bible Adventure. WELL... it turns out it's also the one Fr. Mike uses for the Bible in a year, and after grumbling about having to buy a copy to use it for writing this book... IT IS MY NEW FAVORITE BIBLE!

More on this to come...