{"product_id":"2940012269706","title":"Catholic Douay-Rheims Version Holy Bible (Complete Old and New Testaments) (Douai D-R RHE)","description":"This text comes from multiple editions of Challoner's revised Douay- Rheims Version of the Holy Bible. In 1568 English exiles, many from Oxford, established the English College of Douay (Douai\/Doway), Flanders, under William (later Cardinal) Allen. In October, 1578, Gregory Martin began the work of preparing an English translation of the Bible for Catholic readers, the first such translation into Modern English. Assisting were William Allen, Richard Bristow, Thomas Worthington, and William Reynolds who revised, criticized, and corrected Dr. Martin's work. The college published the New Testament at Rheims (Reims\/Rhemes), France, in 1582 through John Fogny with a preface and explanatory notes, authored chiefly by Bristol, Allen, and Worthington. Later the Old Testament was published at Douay in two parts (1609 and 1610) by Laurence Kellam through the efforts of Dr. Worthington, then superior of the seminary. The translation had been prepared before the appearance of the New Testament, but the publication was delayed due to financial difficulties. The religious and scholarly adherence to the Latin Vulgate text led to the less elegant and idiomatic words and phrases often found in the translation. In some instances where no English word conveyed the full meaning of the Latin, a Latin word was Anglicized and its meaning defined in a glossary. Although ridiculed by critics, many of these words later found common usage in the English language. Spellings of proper names and the numbering of the Psalms are adopted from the Latin Vulgate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1749 Dr. Richard Challoner began a major revision of the Douay and Rheims texts, the spellings and phrasing of which had become increasingly archaic in the almost two centuries since the translations were first produced. He modernized the diction and introduced a more fluid style, while faithfully maintaining the accuracy of Dr. Martin's texts. This revision became the 'de facto' standard text for English speaking Catholics until the twentieth century. It is still highly regarded by many for its style, although it is now rarely used for liturgical purposes. The notes included in this electronic edition are generally attributed to Bishop Challoner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 1610 printing of the second tome of the Old Testament includes an appendix containing the non-canonical books 'Prayer of Manasses,' 'Third Booke of Esdras,' and 'Fourth Booke of Esdras.' While not part of Challoner's revision, the 1610 texts are placed in the appendices of this e-text. Also included are the original texts of two short books, 'The Prophecie of Abdias' and 'The Catholike Epistle of Iude the Apostle,' to give the reader a sense of the language of the first editions in comparison to the Challoner revision. Further background on the Douay-Rheims version may be found in a selection from the preface to the 1582 edition and the original glossary included in the appendices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Holy Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGENESIS\u003cbr\u003eEXODUS\u003cbr\u003eLEVITICUS\u003cbr\u003eNUMBERS\u003cbr\u003eDEUTERONOMY\u003cbr\u003eJOSUE\u003cbr\u003eJUDGES\u003cbr\u003eRUTH\u003cbr\u003eFIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL, OTHERWISE CALLED THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS\u003cbr\u003eSECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL, OTHERWISE CALLED THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS\u003cbr\u003eTHIRD BOOK OF KINGS\u003cbr\u003eFOURTH BOOK OF KINGS\u003cbr\u003eFIRST BOOK OF PARALIPOMENON\u003cbr\u003eSECOND BOOK OF PARALIPOMENON\u003cbr\u003eFIRST BOOK OF ESDRAS\u003cbr\u003eBOOK OF NEHEMIAS, THE SECOND OF ESDRAS\u003cbr\u003eBOOK OF TOBIAS\u003cbr\u003eBOOK OF JUDITH\u003cbr\u003eBOOK OF ESTHER\u003cbr\u003eBOOK OF JOB\u003cbr\u003eBOOK OF PSALMS\u003cbr\u003eBOOK OF PROVERBS\u003cbr\u003eECCLESIASTES\u003cbr\u003eSOLOMON'S CANTICLE OF CANTICLES\u003cbr\u003eTHE BOOK OF WISDOM\u003cbr\u003eECCLESIASTICUS\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF ISAIAS\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF JEREMIAS\u003cbr\u003eLAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAS\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF BARUCH\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF EZECHIEL\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF DANIEL\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF OSEE\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF JOEL\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF AMOS\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF ABDIAS\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF JONAS\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF MICHEAS\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF NAHUM\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF SOPHONIAS\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF AGGEUS\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF ZACHARIAS\u003cbr\u003ePROPHECY OF MALACHIAS\u003cbr\u003eFIRST BOOK OF MACHABEES\u003cbr\u003eSECOND BOOK OF MACHABEES\u003cbr\u003eTHE NEW TESTAMENT\u003cbr\u003eHOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW\u003cbr\u003eHOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MARK\u003cbr\u003eHOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. LUKE\u003cbr\u003eHOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN\u003cbr\u003eACTS OF THE APOSTLES\u003cbr\u003eEPISTLE OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE ROMANS\u003cbr\u003eFIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS\u003cbr\u003eSECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS\u003cbr\u003eEPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE GALATIANS\u003cbr\u003eFIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS\u003cbr\u003eSECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE THESSALONIANS\u003cbr\u003eFIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO TIMOTHY\u003cbr\u003eSECOND EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO TIMOTHY\u003cbr\u003eEPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO TITUS\u003cbr\u003eEPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO PHILEMON\u003cbr\u003eEPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE HEBREWS\u003cbr\u003eEPISTLE OF ST. JAMES THE APOSTLE\u003cbr\u003eFIRST EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE\u003cbr\u003eSECOND EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE\u003cbr\u003eTHIRD EPISTLE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE\u003cbr\u003eEPISTLE OF ST. JUDE\u003cbr\u003eAPOCALYPSE OF ST. JOHN THE APOSTLE\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDICES","brand":"Avalon Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147361861872,"sku":"2940012269706","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940012269706_p0.jpg?v=1763554388","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940012269706","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}