[sitetest]

Dear ArrogantBustard,

“I suspect that the job could be handed to third-year Latin students at your local Catholic high school at the beginning of the year, and the job be done ... CORRECTLY ... by April.”

It is true that anyone with a few years of Latin studies isn't inclined to buy the translations of the bishops. I wonder if more than a handful of them know any Latin themselves?

My own third year high school Latin student (well, I guess now he's a rising AP Latin student) often goes to the Vulgate directly rather than deal with the NAB that his school gave him for religion class.

sitetest

[AnAmericanMother]

The NAB is a flippin' abomination. Obviously assembled by a committee with little sense and even less Latin (or Greek).

I read Greek better than Latin (had it more recently), and being raised Episcopalian I was always parsing the KJV which was translated directly from the Greek rather than through the Latin. So I tend to go to the Greek Testament and the LXX. But I'm getting better with the Vulgate!