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English-speaking Roman Catholics have never produced a first-class Bible of their own. The Douay Version, their standard since 1609, was written in Douay and Rheims, France, by exiles driven from England and cut off from English libraries. Worse, in 1546, the Council of Trent had required, in effect, that all official translations be made from St. Jerome's 5th century Latin Vulgate text, rather than from manuscripts in the original Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. The King James Version, published by Protestants in 1611, has always overshadowed the Douay among scholars and laymen...
...Catholic Biblical scholars under the sponsorship of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, which directs the religious training of Catholic children outside parochial schools. Since the translators followed the original Greek rather than the Latin Vulgate, they had to sacrifice some sonorous phrases familiar to Catholic ears from the Douay version and from a prewar Confraternity New Testament that was based on the Vulgate. Instead of "Amen, amen, I say to you," Jesus' teaching is prefaced by "I solemnly assure...
...Catholic Bibles have historically evolved like two separate streams that shift course from time to time but never quite join. The best-known Protestant translations of Scripture in English, the King James and Revised Standard versions, come essentially from the original Hebrew and Greek; such Catholic editions as the Douay and Knox Bibles follow St. Jerome's 4th century Latin Vulgate. For centuries, the churches have stressed the differences. Now the two streams seem destined to join in a common Bible that would be acceptable to all Christians...
...DOUAY: "In the beginning God created heaven, and earth...
...Bible study groups for their parishioners. Non-Catholic scholars readily grant the quality of such modern Catholic Bibles as the English translations prepared by the late Monsignor Ronald Knox and the U.S.'s still-incomplete Confraternity editions, both of which were designed to replace the classic but archaic Douay version. A religious bestseller (more than 1.000,000 copies) is the French Jerusalem Bible, translated by the staff of Ecole Biblique, a respected center for Biblical research run by the Dominican order in the Jordanian section of Jerusalem...