{"id":2131,"date":"2018-08-09T11:36:02","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T15:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2018-08-28T09:19:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T13:19:40","slug":"douai-rheims-bible-revolutionary-catholic-text-in-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/2018\/08\/douai-rheims-bible-revolutionary-catholic-text-in-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Douai-Rheims Bible – Revolutionary Catholic\u00a0Text in Context"},"content":{"rendered":"
Counted among the earliest and most influential volumes found in our Rare Book Collection is the\u00a0Douai-Rheims Bible which is the English language translation of scripture\u00a0designed\u00a0specifically\u00a0for Catholic readership\u00a0from the original Latin Vulgate that was created by theologian and historian\u00a0Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus<\/em>, or Jerome\u00a0<\/span>(345-420 AD), the present day patron saint of translators and librarians.<\/div>\n
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The enduring title for this work\u00a0comes from the geographical connections to the adapted work hosted by the English University at Douai (Northern France)\u00a0and Reims, France where the Old Testament and New Testament were evaluated from the translations\u00a0made by St. Jerome centuries earlier.\u00a0 The first mass published volume was created in 1582 which featured the New Testament proper.\u00a0 This served as a prelude to the companion\u00a0Old Testament version that was published in two volumes between 1609-10 by the University of Douai.\u00a0 This particular\u00a0compilation\u00a0illustrated here\u00a0encompasses the Books of Genesis to Job (first volume) and transitions to the Psalms,\u00a0Machabees, and Apocrypha of the Vulgate (second volume) and includes source notes on the translation process via the\u00a0Hebrew and Greek versions of the Latin\u00a0Bible.<\/div>\n
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With a proliferation of Protestant-created bibles including the King James version (1604-11) and many earlier\u00a0examples from the 16th century, the primary rationale for the creation of the Douai-Rheims Bible centered around the need by Catholics in England to create a clearly legible sacred text\u00a0as a means of helping to discourage conversion in\u00a0the face of conversion temptation brought on by\u00a0Counter-Reformation preachers\u00a0and to\u00a0clearly articulate the articles of faith in a\u00a0vernacular\u00a0that could be easily understood and\u00a0interpreted.<\/div>\n
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This work was first\u00a0published through the intercession of Lawrence Killam at Douai and the text once it went through the printing press\u00a0came in a flat case leather binding measuring\u00a06 1\/2 x 9 in.\u00a0 Examples of the title page and frontispiece can be found in the illustrations provided.\u00a0 Subsequent reprints and editions have been made of this trailblazing work making it one of the read religious-centered tomes over since its first appearance over 400 years ago.\u00a0\u00a0For more information contact Alan Delozier, University Archivist\/ Education Coordinator via e-mail:\u00a0Alan.Delozier@shu.edu or by phone at: (973) 275-2378.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Counted among the earliest and most influential volumes found in our Rare Book Collection is the\u00a0Douai-Rheims Bible which is the English language translation of scripture\u00a0designed\u00a0specifically\u00a0for Catholic readership\u00a0from the original Latin Vulgate that was created by theologian and historian\u00a0Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, or Jerome\u00a0(345-420 AD), the present day patron saint of translators and librarians. The enduring title … Continue reading “Douai-Rheims Bible – Revolutionary Catholic\u00a0Text in Context”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":2160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives-and-special-collections","category-rare-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}