Are you sure? I think he is Protestant than Catholic.
It doesn’t hurt to read the deutrocanonical books. They were often quoted in the NT.
exactly the same, page for page, as the old one I had loved so much!!I like the Douay-Rheims too. The only things I don’t like about it are the different names of some of the books (for example, Osee instead of Hosea) and the different numbering of the Psalms (everybody knows the 23rd Psalm, but in the Douay-Rheims, it’s actually the 22nd). I always make sure I have another translation handy in case the names of the books or numbering of the Psalms messes me up. I like it better than the KJV also, and I have a KJV with the Apocrypha (as well as one without). I do like having the KJV with the Apocrypha because there are a few books that are recognized by the Orthodox Churches but not the Catholic Church that are included in it.I also grew up on the KJV…
I read the Douay & the RSV-CE more than any other versions. I really like the Douay. I do wish that someone would standardize the names of books, & numbering of verses, especially in the Psalms, the way they have in the Ignatius RSV that I have. It would make it easier to naviagate.
I had thought about buying a KJV 1611, which has the *whole *Bible in it, instead of lacking in the OT, but then my nonagenarian Douay took a turn for the worse, & I replaced it with a new Baronius. It is
I like the fact that the Douay follows so close to the Latin. (My mother was a Latin teacher; that is important to me!!) Maybe someday, I will get a Vulgate. In the meantime, I am very happy to use Douay over KJV any day!!
Would you please give us a detailed list of which books you are referring to that are "missing from the Catholic Book?
I read none of them! Instead, I read the Koiné-greek one (Novum testamentum)
From what I can tell, there are some minor differences between the Catholic and Orthodox Canon. Here’s a few examples:lak611 said: Would you please give us a detailed list of which books you are referring to that are "missing from the Catholic Book?
Ditto! I was raised Southern Baptist, but I have only been a confirmed Catholic since Easter. The DR was an easy switch for me, but I still love the KJV.I was raised Southern Baptist, but have been Eastern Catholic for 27 years now. I have read the Jerusalem Bible for many years, but have started reading the DR Bible. I really think it is because I was raised on the old KJ and I connect with the language of the DR. So for myself it is really not hard to understand, it is comfy
Very nice! Thanks for the link.
It is now in my favorites.Thanks for the post! I was not online to answer the question myself.
Not “instead of” but “along side of” at times. Of course, the Douay Bible that most Roman Catholics grew up with is not actually the original Douay-Rheims but is the Rheims-Challoner version, edited in the early 1700’s. It’s practically the only version of the Douay version widely extant, and it was revised to conform with textual sources that the KJV and the original Douay-Rheims did not use. It was also revised in the direction of the stylistically-better KJV translation. Which makes Roman Catholic claims that the Douay Bible is “older than” the KJV a tad dishonest. (Of course, the currently-extant version of the KJV is also a revision; however, the revisions of the KJV affected only spelling changes and minor revisions in grammar; the Challoner revisions to the Douay amount in many places to an actual re-translation). Here’s a wikipedia overview:
King James was not a Roman Catholic. (And he was NOT homosexual, by the way, despite a persistent Internet rumor to the contrary: see the following):
Just a slight correction:
Do you think there are those version online available?
Are you asking if the original 1609 Douay-Rheims and the original 1611 KJV are available online?
Yes