You are bidding on a CD disk containing the PDF Ebook version of the Douay Rheims Version of the Holy Bible. Because of the large file sizes, it cannot be delivered digitally and will be sent on a CD disk.
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Don't pass up this opportunity to obtain a copy of this rare Bible! Original hardcopy editions have sold on Ebay for hundreds of dollars. With this CD you can read the same pages on your computer, or print out any pages you like at your convenience. Serious students of the Bible should not be without this historical Douay Rheims version. Its rich poetry and accuracy to the original biblical languages make it a must-have for any reference library.
The Douai Bible, also known as the Rheims-Douai Bible or Douay-Rheims Bible and abbreviated as D-R, is a Catholic translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English. The New Testament was published in one large volume with extensive commentary and notes in 1582. The Old Testament followed in 1609 in two large volumes, also extensively annotated. The notes took up the bulk of the volumes and had a strong polemical and patristic character. They also offered insights on issues of translation, and on the Hebrew and Greek source texts of the Vulgate. The purpose of the version, both the text and notes, was to uphold Catholic tradition in the face of the Protestant Reformation which was heavily influencing religion in England. As such it was an impressive effort by English Catholics to support the Catholic Reformation.
Regarded from the point of view of scholarship, the Rheims-Douai Bible is seen, despite its stilted prose, as a particularly accurate version of The Bible; which was just what Catholicism preferred in a time of various and specific religious disputes. It deserves mention in the history of the English Bible because it was one of the versions consulted by the translators of the King James Version (the Authorized Version), especially for the New Testament. Though the Authorized Version is indeed distinguished by the strongly English (as distinct from Latin) character of its prose, some of the Latin vocabulary it used (and used effectively: propitiation Romans 3:25, concupiscence Romans 7:8, emulation Romans 11:14) was derived from the Rheims-Douai. Other words adopted from Latin were introduced into the English language directly by the Douai-Rheims Bible (not through the intermediary of the Authorised Version), and eventually became commonplace in both ecclesiastical and secular vocabularies: "acquisition," "adulterate," "advent," "allegory," "verity," "calumniate," "character," "cooperate," "prescience," "resuscitate," "victim," and "evangelise." (courtesy of Wikipedia)
Having this book on a CD is a dream come true. A wonderful feature of this CD is the ability to "copy and paste" any of the text from its pages into any other computer application/program. Try doing that with a printed book! Everthing on this disk is fully searchable. And with so many pages and chapters to study, having built-in Bookmarks is definitely a time saver!
Do you like audio books? Another time-saving feature not talked about very often is the "Read Aloud" function of Adobe Acrobat Reader. This feature will allow your computer to read the text of the book to you, whether it be one page or the entire book! (Don't be fooled by others on ebay who try to pass off their ebooks as the only ones with this feature, as it will work with nearly any PDF in Adobe Acrobat)
This ebook version of the Douay Rheims contains 73 Books in total, instead of the 66 found in Protestant versions such as The King James. Don't forget, shipping is FREE! I can't STAND it when people charge 2 or 3 dollars or more for shipping, when it only costs 58 CENTS! Don't you stand for it either! Those other guys are ripping you off...and laughing all the way to PayPal!
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