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March 11, 2010
For your Bible-quoting needs
For the medievalist in your life who has Bible-quoting needs - my favorite Douay-Rheims online!
I'm not a slave to the idea, but lots of medievalists prefer to quote the Douay-Rheims version because it is a translation of the Vulgate, close enough to the Vulgate version of Jerome that it is occasionally more representative of the versions medieval people would have known; however, there are all kinds of qualifiers, like which version of Psalms you use - and in my period there are still lots of copies of the Old Latin (the Vetus Latina - speaking of which here's a great site for that!) knocking around.
Really, the idea that there was one, standard version of scripture before the invention of printing is problematic. Printing standardized things a lot - though it opened other cans of worms.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at March 11, 2010 12:51 PM
Comments
Stilted though some of the language may be, the DR really has a beautiful version of Psalm 117--even more graceful than Msgr. Knox' version, of which I'm quite enamored.
Posted by: Bruce at March 11, 2010 8:14 PM