Message catholic ecumenical edition

'Now for the first time The Message features the deuterocanonical books translated by William Griffin in The Message: 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 American-idiomatic paraphrased style as the other editions of The Message.

Features
Complete text of the Message Bible, including the books of Judith, Tobit, Sirach, Wisdom, Baruch, 1 and 2 Maccabees, and additions to Esther and Daniel
''The Story of the Bible in Five Acts'' overview of the Bible
8-point text size
9.25'' x 6.25'' x 2.25''

Eugene Peterson's The Message 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) make the Scriptures come alive again by translating them in a way that we can understand what God is trying to say to us today.'