Confraternity Bible
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The Confraternity Bible is a 1941 revision of Richard Challoner's revision of the Douay Bible. It departs from Challoner's translation in several ways:
- It modernizes the style of Challoner's eighteenth century English.
- It translates from critical editions of the Latin Vulgate, rather than from the Clementine edition.
- When Greek idioms are literally translated into the Vulgate, it paraphrases the Greek idiom, rather than translating direct from the Latin.
- In general, it is a freer translation than Challoner's, and more paraphrastic.
- It restores the paragraph formatting of the first edition of the Douay Bible, which had been removed in the Challoner Revision.
Because it was intended to be used in the liturgy, the translators did not introduce any rendering that would depart from the text of the Vulgate.
A complete revision of the entire Old Testament was never completed; the books that were not from the Confraternity translation still followed Challoner's revision. The earlier versions of the Confraternity should therefore more properly be referred to as the Challoner-Confraternity, or Douai- Confraternity. While many of the books of the Old Testament in 1960s editions of the Confraternity Bible were new translations, by and large, these were translations from the Hebrew, and formed the basis of those books in the New American Bible. The Books of Psalms, which appeared at the same time as the New Testament, was not translated from the traditional Gallican Psalter of St Jerome's Vulgate, but from the new Psalter from the Hebrew promulgated by Pope Pius XII.
It was used in the liturgy in the United States until the early nineteen-seventies, when it was replaced by the New American Bible. The Challoner-Confraternity version continues to be popular with traditional Catholics.
Scepter Publishers [1] have put the New Testament back into print ISBN 0-933932-77-4.
[edit] External links
- Preface to the Confraternity New Testament at The DCL.
