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Bible (DRA), Complete 1899 American Edition by Douay-Rheims Version (DRV)

Bible (DRA), Complete 1899 American Edition by Douay-Rheims Version (DRV)

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 The Douay–Rheims Bible is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the Catholic seminary English College, Douai, France. It is the foundation on which nearly all English Catholic versions are still based.

It was translated principally by Gregory Martin, an Oxford-trained scholar, working in the circle of English Catholic exiles on the Continent, under the sponsorship of William (later Cardinal) Allen. The New Testament appeared at Rheims in 1582; the Old Testament at Douai in 1609.

The translation, although competent, exhibited a taste for Latinisms that was not uncommon in English writing of the time.
Between 1749 and 1752, English bishop Richard Challoner substantially revised the translation with an aim to improve readability and comprehensibility. It was first published in America in 1790 by Mathew Carey of Philadelphia. Several American editions followed in the 19th and early 20th centuries; prominent among them the Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition Version. - Summary by Bible Gateway

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The narrator’s voice is pleasant to listen to. I don’t agree with all his name pronunciations, but that’s minor. What infuriates me is that the episodes are not listed in any sort of logical order. They’re not in alphabetical order. They’re certainly not in the order they appear in the Bible. All parts of the same book aren’t even listed together. The only order option within the Audible app is oldest first or newest first, which doesn’t help in the least. Unless you fancy listening to random chunks, and I don’t know anyone who wants to read the Bible that way, this makes for a quite frustrating listen.

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