What is the first catholic bible in english?

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and, how does it word John 1:1

Is there a tradition of English translations?

Was “In the begining…word was God” a tradition of translation?

What other translation traditions exist?

How about the Isaiah 7:14 virgin rendering?
 
The Venerable Bede (672-735) started a translation of Scripture into Old English (Anglo-Saxon) in the late 7th century. Aldhelm (AD 640–709), translated the complete Book of Psalms and large portions of other scriptures into Old English. In the 11th century, Abbot Ælfric translated much of the Old Testament into Old English.

The Lord’s Prayer in a Northumbrian dialect of Old English from around AD 950 -

Suae ðonne iuih gie bidde fader urer ðu arð ðu bist in heofnum + in heofnas; sie gehalgad noma ðin; to-cymeð ric ðin. sie willo ðin suae is in heofne J in eorðo. hlaf userne oferwistlic sel us to dæg. J forgef us scylda usra suae uoe forgefon scyldgum usum. J ne inlæd usih in costunge ah gefrig usich from yfle

The Lord’s Prayer in the West Saxon dialect of Old English from around AD 990 -

Fæder ure þu þe eart on heofonum, si þin nama gehalgod. To becume þin rice, gewurþe ðin willa, on eorðan swa swa on heofonum. Urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg, and forgyf us ure gyltas, swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendum. And ne gelæd þu us on costnunge, ac alys us of yfele. Soþlice.

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Daniel_Marsh said:
and, how does it word John 1:1

Is there a tradition of English translations?

Was “In the begining…word was God” a tradition of translation?

What other translation traditions exist?

How about the Isaiah 7:14 virgin rendering?
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This is a much more complex question than you think. You have to take into account partial translations, unauthorized translations, translations by Catholics, translations by Protestants (which Catholics believe instituted bias), and translations from the Greek and Hebrew versus translations from the Latin Vulgate of St. Jerome (who had access to many sources that no longer exist). Catholics would turn to the Douai-Rhiems Version, since it was the first authorized English version. It also predates the King James Version of the Bible.
 
Daniel_Marsh said:
and, how does it word John 1:1

Is there a tradition of English translations?

Was “In the begining…word was God” a tradition of translation?

What other translation traditions exist?

How about the Isaiah 7:14 virgin rendering?
Click to expand...
The first bible in english was the Gutenberg Bible
 
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