Douay–Rheims Bible

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The Douay–Rheims Bible is an early English translation of the Latin Vulgate produced by English Catholics in exile during the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

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Douay–Rheims–Challoner revision 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bible translation
Catholic Bible
English Bible translation
associatedWith Richard Bristow
Thomas Worthington
William Allen
basedOnEditionOfVulgate Vulgate
surface form: Sixtine Vulgate (for New Testament, with later influence of Clementine Vulgate)
compiledIn Douai
Reims
completeBiblePublicationPeriod 1582–1610
contains Deuterocanonical books
New Testament
Bible
surface form: Old Testament
countryOfOrigin France
editor Gregory Martin
era early 17th century
late 16th century
genre religious text
hasCanonicalStatus approved Catholic translation of Scripture
includesBook 1 Maccabees
2 Maccabees
Book of Daniel
surface form: Additions to Daniel

Additions to Esther
Baruch
Book of Judith
Tobit
surface form: Book of Tobit

Book of Sirach
surface form: Sirach

Book of Wisdom
surface form: Wisdom of Solomon
influenced King James Version
language English
laterRevisedAs Douay–Rheims Bible self-linksurface differs
surface form: Douay–Rheims–Challoner revision
newTestamentPublicationYear 1582
newTestamentPublishedIn Reims
notableFeature Latinized English style
extensive marginal notes
strongly polemical annotations
oldTestamentPublicationYear 1609
1610
oldTestamentPublishedIn Douai
producedBy English Catholics in exile
English College, Douai
purpose to counter Protestant English Bible translations
to provide English Catholics with an authorized Bible
religiousTradition Roman Catholicism
script Latin alphabet
sourceText Vulgate
surface form: Latin Vulgate
targetAudience English-speaking Roman Catholics
theologicalOrientation Catholic
translationType formal equivalence

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Confraternity Bible basedOn Douay–Rheims Bible
Douay–Rheims Bible laterRevisedAs Douay–Rheims Bible self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Douay–Rheims–Challoner revision
King James Version predecessor Douay–Rheims Bible