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To: verga; Ruy Dias de Bivar

“Lets be aware of one important facts the “translators can say what ever they like, but it has been documented that significant portions of the King Jimmy have been lifted directly from the D/R. “

You have it backwards...


79 posted on 11/27/2010 3:24:07 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better still)
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To: Mr Rogers
“Lets be aware of one important facts the “translators can say what ever they like, but it has been documented that significant portions of the King Jimmy have been lifted directly from the D/R. “ You have it backwards...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douay%E2%80%93Rheims_Bible The Douay–Rheims Bible (also known as the Rheims–Douai Bible or Douai Bible, and abbreviated as D–R) is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English undertaken by members of the English College, Douai in the service of the Catholic Church. The New Testament was published in Reims (France) in 1582, in one volume with extensive commentary and notes. The Old Testament, which was published by the University of Douai, followed nearly thirty years later in two volumes; the first volume (Genesis to Job) in 1609, the second (Psalms to 2 Machabees plus the apocrypha of the Clementine Vulgate) in 1610. Marginal notes took up the bulk of the volumes and had a strong polemical and patristic character. They also offered insights on issues of translation, and on the Hebrew and Greek source texts of the Vulgate. The purpose of the version, both the text and notes, was to uphold Catholic tradition in the face of the Protestant Reformation which up till then had ovewhelmingly dominated Elizabethan religion and academic debate. As such it was an impressive effort by English Catholics to support the Counter-Reformation. The New Testament was reprinted in 1600, So we are clear your position is that Catholics plagarized a book that would not be published for 29 years. WOW we Catholics are even more nefarious than you give us credit for.

166 posted on 11/28/2010 7:54:38 AM PST by verga (I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
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