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The Confraternity Bible refers to a biblical translation or revision project that resulted in various editions appearing between 1941 and 1970. It began as a revision of Challoner, and the Old Testament portions were retranslated bit by bit. The result was that "Confraternity Bibles" sometimes had a mixture of books, some revised, some still following Challoner. I've read in several different places that no complete Challoner Bible was published in this period.
This Bible served as a sort of partial stop-over between the period in which the Catholic Church translated from the Latin Vulgate and the later period in which the Masoretic Text and Greek New Testament were used.
It was published by the Confraternity for Christian Doctrine, an official arm of the Catholic Church. It was superseded by the New American Bible and then by a Revised Edition, both continuing the work begun in the Confraternity Bible. Some history can be found here.
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