Catholic Bible-OE: Douay-Rheims

The best version, I love it so much.

The bible arrived well packaged and the day after I ordered it as promised. It is the most amazing and authentic edition of the bible and I am so grateful that I was able to get one. So impressed that I gave it to a family member and ordered another one today!!!

A lovely bible with beautiful pictures and maps This is the full bible used before the 'Reformation.'Note that the cover is a bit slippery on the fingers. I think that it is best put into a bible jacket.

No comment needed , you either want it or need it , However , a very good edition .

The original and the best Bible in the world

An excellent version of the now non-litergical Catholic bible, still much cherished by many.

The Bible I received as in a perfect new condition. It was every thing I wanted, I am very pleased indeed.

Love it. It is the only correct bible.

Another nice Bible to my collection.if I would have more money I would have purchased a leather bound colour bible

"The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims-[Challoner] Version", in this fine-looking and handy edition from "Saint Benedict's Press, published in association with TAN Books", as they print it, is essentially a refurbishment (perhaps more than totally a facsimile reprint) of the Douay-Rheims-Challoner Version as it had circulated widely at the turn of century (i.e., of the 19th into the 20th) in an American variant of the Bp. Richard Challoner's text. I own, among the various editions of the Douay-Rheims-Challoner Version in my personal library, one from the John Murphy Company, of Baltimore, copyrighted in 1914, which is very similar to what TAN has published for several decades, the pagination aligning but with slight variations here and there in line endings within the double columns.For a widely distributed U.K. variant, one of several over the years, of Challoner's text, there are fairly common ones that the Catholic Truth Society (C.T.S.), London, in small but stubby editions, published. In my own book collection, I have a 1956 edition (1960 printing), with slight updatings to Challoner's text as the British Roman Catholic bishops in England had authorised it anew at the time. Challoner texts of the Douay-Rheims Bible appeared in mix-and-match editions based upon one or more of Challoner's own original wording and his later variants of it, so that the Douay-Rheims-Challoner Version never was standardised into an identical text, but the variations are, in fact, quite minor, so far as the average reader would find them to be. The American text that TAN Books reprinted over the years, in various hardback and paperbound editions, is as good as any of them.The Saint Benedict/TAN edition is a beautifully produced, enhanced reprint that has freshened up the appearance in page lay-out and cleaned up the lettering from the source's font to bestow an almost thoroughly modern look to it. The result is, indeed, one of the most attractive Bibles, especially of those issued as paperback books, that I ever have seen. In addition to the extra features at the end of the volume that one finds also included within the J. Murray edition mentioned above, all quite useful, especially to traditionalist and other Roman Catholics but to other Christian readers, as well, are some newly added ones, namely (but not mentioned here entirely in the sequence in which they appear in this Saint Benedict Press edition) some newly drawn maps, simpler (but, alas, much less detailed) than the ones in J. Murray's edition, four pages of "Beloved Prayers Which All Catholics Should Know by Heart" (providing one with some worthwhile spiritual and memory exercise!), and a list of "The Succession of Popes" down to Benedict XVI, but not further to the current Pontiff (as of late 2016), Pope Francis the Talking Mule, concluding with some stunningly well reproduced oil paintings by a major and some minor masters (Albertinelli, Maino, Bloch, and El Greco).The extra features retained from the source edition are yet more useful and precious to the Christian reader, specifically consisting of "Historical and Chronological Index[es] to the Old Testament [and] to the New Testament, [etc.]", a not separately headed brief, alphabetically arranged, topical index, and "A Table of All the Epistles and Gospels [read within the liturgy, be it noted in the old single-year cycle] for All Sundays and Holidays throughout the Year and Also of the Most Notable Feasts of the Roman Calendar", and a list of the books (and number of their chapters) of the Old Testament (including within that sequence, of course, the Deuterocanonical writings, which Anglicans, Lutherans, and other Protestants, and the sectaries call "Apocrypha") and of the New Testament.I have praised elsewhere, in other Amazon reviews, Bp. Richard Challoner's superb translation, which considerably improved upon the original Douay-Rheims Version, integrating much of the wording found in the classic Authorised ("King James") Version that Anglicans, other Protestants, and sectaries use as the most standard Bible among their ranks, so I shall not belabour, here too, the defense of the Douay-Rheims-Challoner Version per se in this review. Challoner's decision to conform the Douay-Rheims Bible as much as possible (from a Roman Catholic point of view) to the A.V. (K.J.V.) Bible saved the Douay-Rheims Version from obsolescence, enabling it to be, right down to the present day, the best Roman Catholic Bible of all in English, before or since Challoner's own times, despite the many (and less worthy) rivals to it that have appeared, especially in post-W.W. 2 decades of the 20th and 21st centuries. May the attractive paperback publication (and the hardback- and leather-bound ones, as well) from Saint Benedict's Press meet the needs today of Roman Catholic and other Christians, too, for a reliable as well as handsomely-printed Bible.

The content is perfect. Just unhappy that it arrived with damage 💔

Excellent Bible.

La entrega valió la pena. Tiene una calidad muy buena a pesar de ser de portada rústica y tiene un texto fiel a la versión irlandés impresa en América en 1899.Muy recomendada.