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The Douay-Rheims is actually a decade or two older and the first English translation, if memory serves.
by sdegutis 7y ago
The Douay-Rheims is actually a decade or two older and the first English translation, if memory serves.
- gerdesj 7y agoThis discussion is about the King James Version. You seem to be talking about something else.
- chrismorgan 7y agoTyndale’s was the first printed Bible in English; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_into_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_into_Englis... has more information.
- maxlybbert 7y agoDouay-Rheims is a translation from Latin to English. King James is a translation from Hebrew and Greek to English. But neither translation was the first of their kind. The Wycliffe Bible was translated from Latin in the late 1300s. Likewise, Tyndale started publishing a translation from Hebrew and Greek in 1494. The article is about the discovery about a piece of paper from one of the King James translators. So it’s the earliest handwritten manuscript from the King James translation effort.
- bregma 7y agoMy mother has a copy of the "Breeches" (Geneva) bible, first published in 1557 (sure, hers is a reprint from 1607, regular folk could never afford a first edition). The Douay-Rheims translation was published in 1582. The King James version might be considered definitive by many, but it's nowhere close to the first English translation. In fact, King James' version was less popular than the Geneva bible and wasn't selling well until His Majesty banned the competition and punished those caught with a copy. The famous refugees that migrated from England to America in 1620 on the Mayflower carried Geneva bibles, not King James bibles.