The first edition of the New American Bible was published on September 30, 1970.

These efforts eventually became the New American Bible under the liturgical principles and reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965). bishops' committee on the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine and was carried out in stages by members of the Catholic Biblical Association of America (CBA) 'from the Original Languages with Critical Use of All the Ancient Sources' (as the title pages state). Stemming originally from the Confraternity Bible, a translation of the Vulgate by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, the project transitioned to translating the original biblical languages in response to Pope Pius XII's 1943 encyclical Divino afflante Spiritu. The 1986 Revised NAB is the basis of the revised Lectionary, and it is the only translation approved for use at Mass in the Latin Church Catholic dioceses of the United States and the Philippines, and the 1970 first edition is also an approved Bible translation by the Episcopal Church in the United States. The New American Bible ( NAB) is an English translation of the Bible first published in 1970.

389 pages paperback in Large Print.Yes, God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him may not die but may have eternal life. This New Testament will surprise and thrill the reader with its power and inspiration coming from the words of 'Yeshua' ('Jesus' in ancient Aramaic) as He originally spoke them, in a literal and readable English rendering. Aramaic was used in Mel Gibson's film 'The Passion of the Christ' to make the film as realistic and accurate as possible. This translation is derived from the author's Aramaic-English Interlinear New Testament and The Psalms & Proverbs interlinear. Aramaic was the language of the Jews in Israel, the Middle East and in Europe from the 6th century BC and afterward until the Muslim conquests of the 7th century AD. A translation of the Psalms & Proverbs from the ancient Peshitta OT Version is included at the end.

This is a translation (8th edition-2013) of The Aramaic New Testament (Aramaic was the language of Jesus and his countrymen of 1st century Israel) in a literal English prose translation of The Peshitta New Testament.

Aramaic bible in plain english online