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The Message: Catholic/Ecumenical Edition: The Bible in Contemporary Language
The Message Catholic/Ecumenical Edition The Bible in Contemporary Language Author:Eugene H. Peterson, William Griffin Now for the first time and exclusively from ACTA Publications, The MessageŽ features the deuteroncanonical books translated by William Griffin in The MessageŽ: Catholic/Ecumenical Edition. Including the books of Judith, Tobit, Sirach, Wisdom, Baruch, 1 and 2 Maccabees, and additions to Esther and Daniel, all translated in the same contemporary A... more »merican-idiomatic paraphrased style as the other editions of The MessageŽ.
Eugene Peterson's The MessageŽ is a fresh, compelling, insightful, challenging, faith-filled translation of the Bible into contemporary idiomatic American English and is first and foremost a reader's Bible. Eugene Peterson and William Griffin (translator of the deuterocanonical books) have made the Scriptures come alive again by translating them in a way that people can understand what God is trying to say to us today.
This Bible is meant to be read. The MessageŽ is not meant to be a subsititue for your other bible translations. It is meant to sit next to them where you can pick it up and simply start reading. We hope it will send you back to your other translations with new insight and curiosity.« less