If there is one issue that makes you want to discover or rediscover and read the Bible, it is that of the "ecumenical translation of the Bible", a collaboration of many specialists and translators! The Bible had never benefited from the convergence of so many talents! The introductions to various books that make it up are exciting; notes, more numerous than in any other translation, are particularly interesting! Finally, this work has had two revisions, one in 1988 and one in 2004.Pour convenience, you can buy the New Testament separate, but in the 2000 edition only, since it does not appear that there after that date, in complete edition of course, the Old and New Testament separated!