March 11, 2010

For Your Bible-Quoting Needs

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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 t...

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