Douay-Confraternity

[Faith_Alight]

I actually enjoy this Bible… it mixes the Douay OT with the Confraternity NT (since the Confraternity OT was never finished).

Is this a good Bible to be reading? Why or why not?

 

[Mattjolley]

is there a noticeable difference in the confraternity translation and the douay, isnt half the OT douay and half is confraternity?

Why did the translation suddenly stop? Was it due to the encyclical encouraging translations from the original texts, if im right wasnt the confraternity a vulgate translation?

 

[mattwcu]

I have several Confraternity bibles. One of them has the Old Testament but my two others, such as my pocket edition, does not. To be honest I find it a much more edifying read than all the others. It still has traditional language but some of the latinisms and odd sentence structures were fixed up. The limited commentary is orthodox.

The Confraternity edition is my favorite.

I believe you can buy the pocket and regular versions just about anywhere, EWTN’s catalog, Scepter Publishers, AllCatholicBooks.com, Aquinas and More…etc…

 

[mattwcu]

is there a noticeable difference in the confraternity translation and the douay, isnt half the OT douay and half is confraternity?

Why did the translation suddenly stop? Was it due to the encyclical encouraging translations from the original texts, if im right wasnt the confraternity a vulgate translation?

Genesis through Ruth I believe are a new translation and are almost identical to what you will find in the NAB, but they are probably much more orthodox. The rest is Douay except for the Psalms which are also newer.

 

[tobinatorstark]

I have heard that it was. I have only come in contact with it a few times, but hadn’t had the opportunity to read it.

 

[Claudius]

I actually enjoy this Bible… it mixes the Douay OT with the Confraternity NT (since the Confraternity OT was never finished).

Is this a good Bible to be reading? Why or why not?

Ok, I know this will sound crazy but why don’t we all learn to read Latin and read from the Vulgate. I know Latin isn’t the hip language it once was but for me, learing Latin and reading the Vulgate was far easier than understanding the Dauy-Reims Bible. I just don’t understand all the old English (almost German in some places) that it has. Latin is a much easier language. I mean it. I can’t for the life of me understand why people think Latin is hard. It is by far the easiest language I have ever encountered. It is simple and straightforward, nothing cryptic about it.

Ok, I know that I am the only person to post here to think this but I just wanted to put that out there.

 

[RedSoxFan]

I actually enjoy this Bible… it mixes the Douay OT with the Confraternity NT (since the Confraternity OT was never finished).

Is this a good Bible to be reading? Why or why not?

Very good reading. You enjoy it and it has Rome’s apporoval.

 

[Jerry-Jet]

Closer to the truth than any other translation out there.

Get one with the Bea Psalter and you’ll have the most accurate translation of the Psalms, too.

Some of the last ones were printed in 1952.

Don’t buy any with newer translations of the Old Testament books–they are just like the NAB except for Genesis.

 

[lanceg]

I actually enjoy this Bible… it mixes the Douay OT with the Confraternity NT (since the Confraternity OT was never finished).

Is this a good Bible to be reading? Why or why not?

This is the very best Bible you can use, with the Douay OT & Confraternity NT. I carry it with me all the time…

 

[thistle]

Ok, I know this will sound crazy but why don’t we all learn to read Latin and read from the Vulgate. I know Latin isn’t the hip language it once was but for me, learing Latin and reading the Vulgate was far easier than understanding the Dauy-Reims Bible. I just don’t understand all the old English (almost German in some places) that it has. Latin is a much easier language. I mean it. I can’t for the life of me understand why people think Latin is hard. It is by far the easiest language I have ever encountered. It is simple and straightforward, nothing cryptic about it.

Ok, I know that I am the only person to post here to think this but I just wanted to put that out there.

You are right. It is crazy. You want 1.2 billion people to learn Latin to the extent they can all read and understand the Bible in Latin!!

 

[Church_Militant]

I have several Confraternity bibles. One of them has the Old Testament but my two others, such as my pocket edition, does not. To be honest I find it a much more edifying read than all the others. It still has traditional language but some of the latinisms and odd sentence structures were fixed up. The limited commentary is orthodox.

The Confraternity edition is my favorite.

I believe you can buy the pocket and regular versions just about anywhere, EWTN’s catalog, Scepter Publishers, AllCatholicBooks.com, Aquinas and More…etc…

I like it too, though I also like my Douay-Rheims Challoner as well.

The Confraternity Bible is better than a lot of them. Like they say in the CAF article on which Bible translation to get, the best answer is…“The one that you’ll read”.

 

[tobinatorstark]

Ok, I know this will sound crazy but why don’t we all learn to read Latin and read from the Vulgate. I know Latin isn’t the hip language it once was but for me, learing Latin and reading the Vulgate was far easier than understanding the Dauy-Reims Bible. I just don’t understand all the old English (almost German in some places) that it has. Latin is a much easier language. I mean it. I can’t for the life of me understand why people think Latin is hard. It is by far the easiest language I have ever encountered. It is simple and straightforward, nothing cryptic about it.

Ok, I know that I am the only person to post here to think this but I just wanted to put that out there.

You are right. It is crazy. You want 1.2 billion people to learn Latin to the extent they can all read and understand the Bible in Latin!!

I love the Latin language as well and it is a slow process in learning it. I feel compelled to pray in Latin when I am really feeling the Holy Spirit. I don’t believe that the Vulgate is for everybody. The point of 1.2 billion people learning Latin is quite absurd. I have started because I was compelled to. I still stick with my Douay-Rheims English Translation and read it alongside my Vulgate. I personally would like to get a Douay-Confraternity. It is probably the best outside the Douay-Rheims itself. Newer translations are alright, but I started reading the NAB and got so far along, something just was missing

 

[jpy15026]

Some of the last ones were printed in 1952.

Don’t buy any with newer translations of the Old Testament books–they are just like the NAB except for Genesis.

Found this post that I saved when I was looking for my Confraternity,Might have even been yours JerryJet

The Confraternity translation was done under the auspices of the U.S. bishops and was originally planned as a revision of the Douay-Rheims (except for the Psalms which were to follow Pope Pius XII’s new Psalter from the Hebrew).

The New Testament was published in 1941 after five years of work. However, after Pope Pius XII’s encyclical on scripture studies, Divino afflante Spiritu in 1943 encouraged consideration of the original texts, the bishops overhauled the Confraternity project and the Old Testament was translated from scratch from the original Hebrew.

As OT books were completed, various editions of the Confraternity Bible were published with the Douay translation used for the gradually shrinking remaining portions of the OT that had yet to be translated.

• The Confraternity translations of the Books of Genesis to Ruth were first published in 1952;
• The Wisdom (or Sapiential) Books, Job to Sirach, in 1955;
• The Prophetic Books, Isaiah to Malachi, in 1961.
• The remaining books were finished by 1969, but these never appeared under the Confraternity name as far as I know. They were added to the existing Confraternity OT,
• Genesis was completely retranslated, other minor changes were made and a new translation of the New Testament from the Greek was added. The result was the 1970 New American Bible (NAB).
• The NAB was now the new official bible of the U.S. bishops. That is why the hybrid Confraternity version went away.