CATHOLIC TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLEby Bill Chamberlin

The following are most of the different Catholic Translation of the Bible:

1582 Douay-Rheims Version N.T.1609 Douay-Rheims Version O.T.1610 Douay-Rheims Version Holie Bible1719 Cornelius Nary N.T.1749 Richard Challoner Revision of Douay Bible1783 Bernard MacMahon N.T.1786 An English Divine Holy Bible Translated from the Latin with Explanatory notes

by Clement XIV 1791 Bernard MacMahon Revision of Challoner/Douay Version1792 Anonymous N.T.1811 Rev. Geo. Leo Haydock The Holy Bible1812 John Worswick (Editor) N.T.1815 Thomas Rigby Revision to Challoner/Douay Version N.T.1822 Rev. Dr. Hamil Holy Bible1825 Eugene Cummiskey Holy Bible1825 Daniel Murray Revision of Challoner/Douay Version1836 John Lingard Four Gospels1838 Dr. Denvir Holy Bible1849 Bishop Francis Patrick Kenrick

Holy Bible 7 Vols.1849 Bishop Francis Patrick Kenrick

Four Gospels1850 James McMahon The Pictorial Catholic N.T.1884 F. Oakeley and T.G. Law Holy Bible1898 Francis A. Spencer Four Gospels1899 John Murphy Holy Bible1913 Westminster Version N.T.1918 Fr. Charles J. Callan Gospels1922 Fr. Charles J. Callan Epistles1929 Fr. Charles J. Callan Psalms Explained for Priests & Students1934 Westminster Version O.T.1937 Fr. Charles J. Callan N.T.1937 Francis Aloysius Spencer N.T.1941 Confraternity Version N.T.1944 Fr. Charles J. Callan Psalms Translated from the Latin in Light of the Hebrew1944 Ronald Knox N.T.1948 Confraternity Version Holy Bible1948 Ronald Knox O.T. 1949 Fr. Charles J. Callan The New Psalter of Pius XII1954 James A. Kleist & Joseph L. Lilly

N.T. from the Greek1956 Ronald Knox Holy Bible1964 Anchor Bible used some Catholic Translators/editors1965 Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition N.T.1966 Revised Standard Version - Catholic edition Holy Bible1966 Jerusalem Bible (Translated from the French)1969 The Bible Reader (Interfaith including Catholic)

1969 Mary Perkins Ryan Psalms1970 New American Bible1971 Sister Rose Agnes MacCauley Twenty Psalms (Vision 20/20)1973 Common Bible (Interfaith including Catholic)1979 Today's English Version (American Bible Soc.) Catholic Edition1982 Kenneth Taylor Living Bible - Catholic Edition1982 Sister Marilyn Brokamp Psalms for Children1985 Jerusalem Bible (Translated from the Hebrew/Greek)1988 Christian Community Bible1991 Sacra Pagina (Multi volume translation)

N.T. (Some individual books)

CATHOLIC TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE12-26-93

I have over a series of six articles shown you how we know that theSacred Scriptures are inspired by God, how the scriptures werepreserved through time, how accurate they are today after centuriesof copying, I have talked about the Apocrypha and Apocryphal, I havetried to impress on you the extent in which God has gone to assure usthat He truly loves each and every one of us and has left us atreasure in which we can truly learn how to have hope, peace and lovein our daily lives.

I pray that I have clearly pointed out to you how rich we really arewhen it comes to having God's Written Word for us to read and learnfrom.

Last week I listed most of the different Catholic Englishtranslations (51) that I knew about. As we prepare ourselves to readthe daily scriptures for this coming week, I thought it appropriateto share with you a list of a few more Catholic Bible translations.640 St. Aldhelm Portions of the Bible in Anglo-Saxon673 St. Bede Portions of the Bible in Anglo-Saxon1505 John Fysher Psalms1635 John Hawkins Seven Penitential Psalms1650 Anonymous (Manual of Prayers)

Seven Penitential Psalms1681 Henry Hare Paraphrase on Psalm 151700 Thomas Caryll Psalms1730 Dr. Witham N.T. (3 editions)1786 Alexander Geddes N.T.1792 Alexander Geddes Holy Bible1811 G. Haydock N.T.1825 H. Rutter Epistle of St. Jude1828 W. Curray Epistles to Timothy & Titus1897 S.F. Smith Gospels & Acts1920 Msgr. Patrick Boyal Psalms (2 Vols)

That is a total of sixty-six different Catholic Bible translationsin English that I was able to find in my book I had published. I havelisted these for you in order to show you that we Catholics have hadmany different translations available to us since the Reformation. Ofcourse most protestants don't know that fact.

Another reason I wanted to list these for you is that many haveasked me what Bible should they buy to read. It's true that most ofthe translations I listed are out-of-print. But as can be seen fromlast week's list, many are still available and will always beavailable.

I don't just have one or two Bibles at home that I read and usedaily. I have 1285 different English translations that I read and use.As a matter of fact, I have read from cover to cover 9 differentcomplete Bibles, 22 different N.T., 4 different O.T.

I won't expect you to have read that many, but if you use thefollowing weekly readings for a period of three years you will haveread most of the entire Bible through.

So why not start today? Find your Bible, dust it off, open it, findtoday's scripture reading and start. (If you need help, call me at693-0440 in the mornings.)

Bill Chamberlin