The New American Bible and John 1:1

The NAB-St. Joseph's Edition in a footnote at John 1:1 says that, "The Roman writer Pliny mentions the Christians of Asia Minor as singing hymns of Christ as *a god.*

Also, my Catholic Study Bible NAB states, "Lack of a definite article with 'God' in Greek signifies predication rather than identification." According to Webster’s Dictionary, predication means, "to affirm as a quality or attribute."

The NAB also says at Ps. 45:7/Heb. 1:8, "The king in courtly language, is called 'god,' i.e., more than human, representing God to the people."

Catholics of course believe in a Trinity, but the NWDC (New World Dictionary to the New American Bible, 1970) candidly admits, "In the New Testament, the Greek Theos with the article (The God) means the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (see Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:3; 2 Cor. 1:2; etc.). Thus God is almost the name of the first person of the blessed Trinity. Without the article, God designates the divinity, and so is applicable to the pre-existing Word (Jn. 1:3). The term God is applied to Jesus in only a few texts, and even their interpretation is under dispute (Jn. 20:28; Rom. 9:5; Tit. 2:13; 2 Pet. 1:1)."

At Exodus 7:1 the NAB states in the footnote, "God had his prophets speak to men in his name."

Their footnote at Exodus 21:6 admits that "God" can refer to "judges," as does Exodus 22:27.

The footnote at John 10:34 states, "This is a reference to the judges of Israel who, since they exercised the divine prerogative to judge (Dt 1:17), were called “gods.”

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