Douay–Rheims Bible

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The Douay–Rheims Bible (, US also ), also known as the Douay–Rheims Version, Rheims–Douai Bible or Douai Bible, and abbreviated as D–R, DRB, and DRV, is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into Early Modern English by members of the English College, Douai, as a Counter-Reformation effort. The New Testament portion was published in Rheims, France, in 1582, in one volume, with extensive commentary and notes. The Old Testament portion was published in two volumes by the University of Douai. The first volume, covering Genesis to Job, was published in 1609. The second, covering the Book of Psalms to 2 Maccabees (spelled "Machabees"), and the three apocryphal books of the Vulgate appendix following the Old Testament (Prayer of Manasseh, 3 Esdras, and 4 Esdras), was published in 1610. Marginal notes on translation, and the Hebrew and Greek source texts of the Vulgate, compose majority portions of the edition. In 1589, William Fulke collated the complete Rheims text and notes in parallel...

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