https://thedouayrheims.com Articles on the history, language, and legacy of the Original Douay-Rheims Bible of 1582–1610. en https://thedouayrheims.com/history/the-douay-rheims https://thedouayrheims.com/history/the-douay-rheims The first complete English Catholic translation of Sacred Scripture, rendered faithfully from the Latin Vulgate by English scholars in exile. https://thedouayrheims.com/history/origins https://thedouayrheims.com/history/origins How a community of English Catholic exiles, driven from their homeland by persecution, produced the first complete English Catholic translation of Sacred Scripture. https://thedouayrheims.com/history/translation-philosophy https://thedouayrheims.com/history/translation-philosophy Why the Douay-Rheims translators chose Saint Jerome's Vulgate over the original Greek and Hebrew, and what their fierce fidelity to that choice gave and cost them. https://thedouayrheims.com/history/annotations https://thedouayrheims.com/history/annotations The notes that accompanied the Rheims New Testament were a sustained, scholarly engagement with Protestant readings of Scripture, and they changed everything about how the book was received. https://thedouayrheims.com/history/rheims-1582 https://thedouayrheims.com/history/rheims-1582 The political world that greeted the Rheims New Testament in 1582, and the Protestant refutation that spread it further than its authors could have imagined. https://thedouayrheims.com/history/forbidden-bible https://thedouayrheims.com/history/forbidden-bible Catholics who produced the English New Testament at Rheims were forbidden to read it without a special license. The history of the Church's restrictions on vernacular Scripture, and the theology that lay behind them. https://thedouayrheims.com/history/challoner https://thedouayrheims.com/history/challoner How Bishop Richard Challoner transformed the Douay-Rheims Bible in the eighteenth century, and why the distinction between the original and the revision matters. https://thedouayrheims.com/history/after-challoner https://thedouayrheims.com/history/after-challoner The proliferation of competing editions after Challoner, and why Cardinal Wiseman declared the name Douay-Rheims an abuse of terms. https://thedouayrheims.com/history/america https://thedouayrheims.com/history/america From Maryland in 1634 to the Catholic communities of the nineteenth century, how this Bible crossed the Atlantic and took root in a new world. https://thedouayrheims.com/history/original-tongues https://thedouayrheims.com/history/original-tongues How the Church moved, over four centuries, from requiring the Vulgate as the basis for all translation to mandating direct use of the Hebrew and Greek originals. https://thedouayrheims.com/history/influence-on-kjv https://thedouayrheims.com/history/influence-on-kjv The specific debt the King James Version owes to the Catholic Bible, in phrases, in vocabulary, and in scholarly precision. https://thedouayrheims.com/history/scripture-for-all https://thedouayrheims.com/history/scripture-for-all How the Catholic Church encourages all the faithful to read Scripture, and the guidance it offers for reading well.