2007 Baronius bible

[StPio]

Hello every one, hope you are all having a peaceful Sunday…

A quick question if anyone can help - I have an Amazon gift voucher to spend which is great, and I’m researching all the different books I like the look of - I have a few (too many!) bibles, but would love a Baronius Press Douay Rheims - I can get the large version on Amazon which was published in 2007 (1st edition), however I have read reviews online that some of these early editions had typos. Basically, does anyone have a 2007/1st edition version? and how have they found it?

Many thanks.

 

[JRTJ]

Hi

I bought the large Baronius Press Douay Rheims edition about 2 months ago. I have the 2007 edition and haven’t spotted any typos so far. It’s absolutely great, go ahead with it. You won’t be disappointed, promise!

There might be a few typos here and there (that’s what I heard too) but I haven’t noticed any - having said thus, it’s also true that I haven’t read the whole thing. But I must’ve spent a total of at least 20 hrs reading it so far and no glaring mistakes were found.

 

[Jguerra]

I ordered one and it had a good chunk of the Old Testament misplaced (the book Isaiah interrupted by entire chapters of Psalms and Proverbs). I called the vendor who promptly sent me a replacement. He did not want the defective one returned.

The replacement edition was good to go. I left the defective one at the adoration chapel.

Hope this helps.

Joe

 

[StPio]

Thank you for your replies folks, yep your info does help, so it seems luck of the draw which one gets sent out, one with mistakes or not. Hmm…I wish I could have a good look through it before I bought it though, but still.

 

[mccorm45]

Thank you for your replies folks, yep your info does help, so it seems luck of the draw which one gets sent out, one with mistakes or not. Hmm…I wish I could have a good look through it before I bought it though, but still.

I have ordered from Baronius often and can assure you that they are more than willing to correct any error on their part. So I wouldn’t worry. Perhaps consider ordering directly from them, since you are assured of getting the most recent edition.

 

[Dodge_pursuit]

Bought a Baronius last week. I found one typo already.

No, it’s not the “wicked bible” or anything. But one typo makes me wonder if there are others…

Still a very well put-together bible.

 

[AmbroseSJ]

No Bible is perfect (print setting wise.) Every D/R Bible since 1582 has typos. In the early Bibles they just listed the mistakes at the end for you to correct. Same goes for Challoner’s Bibles. The revisions and new editions of Challoner’s Bibles have more than typos too. Most if not all are missing a verse here and there. See Pope’s “English Versions of the Bible” and Cottons’ “Attempt to show what has been done by Roman Catholics for the Diffusion of the Holy Scriptures in English”

 

[Dodge_pursuit]

So Douay-Rheims bibles are known to have typos? That’s a bummer for Catholics!

I’m no expert but I’ve spent time with a lot of bibles, reading them and selling them – NAB, NIV, KJV, NKJV, ESV and others – and I honestly can’t recall one instance of discovering either a typo or a missing verse. Nelson, Zondervan, Catholic Book, Harper, Crossway, Holman, Oxford, Cambridge, Saint Benedict Press, no typos.

Actually, I take that back… One time, we found three copies of an NAB “Noah’s Ark Bible” from Catholic Book Publishers that skipped a verse in one of the psalms. We called them and they apologized and promptly sent us replacements, no charge.

In any case, we’re seriously spoiled to have so many versions, copies and editions of God’s Word available to us that we can own more than one, carry them around and debate the finer points! Amen?

(NOTE: The typo I found in the Baronius is also found in the Loreto bible but NOT in the Saint Benedict Press Douay-Rheims)

 

[AmbroseSJ]

Dodge pursuit:

So Douay-Rheims bibles are known to have typos? That’s a bummer for Catholics!

No, that is not what I meant. I said that “No Bible” is perfect. There are typos in all of the old Bibles, and they always listed them under “errata.” If you aren’t finding typos or other errors then you just aren’t looking hard enough. Anyway, that is not why we read bibles. Generally typos don’t catch our attention unless they are glaring. Like missing a verse that we particularly remember, or a non-sensical or badly mispelled word etc.

My point was that a typo or two seems like a silly reason to avoid an otherwise good Bible.

Up until the later 18th century all books were hand set. I often find upside down ‘u’ making an ‘n’ or such things. Later when stereo typesetting became common, whatever typo existed in the original hand set version was repeated in the stereotype set. So errors (like a missing verse) which occurs in an 18th century copy of Challoner, is repeated all the way in to the twentieth century, until someone notifies the printing press.

Books are after all, the product of imperfect humans.