The Vulgate Bible
Subtitle: Douay-Rheims translation
By: edited by Swift Edgar
Contributors: Kinney, Angela M.; Dumbarton Oaks
Series: Dumbarton Oaks medieval library -- 1; 2 pt. A; 2 pt. B-; Dumbarton Oaks medieval library -- 1.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng; lat
ISBN-13: 9780674055346; 9780674996670; 9780674060777
Subjects: Vulgate; Bible; Versions
Work titles: Bible. English. Douai. 2010
Description: "The Vulgate Bible, compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the intersection of the fourth and fifth centuries CE, was used from the early Middle Ages through the twentieth century in the Western European Christian (and, later, specifically Catholic) tradition. Its significance can hardly be overstated. The text influenced literature, visual art, music, and education during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and its contents lay at the heart of much of Western theological, intellectual, artistic, and even political history of that period. At the end of the sixteenth century, as a variety of Protestant vernacular Bibles became available, professors at a Catholic college first at Douay, then at Rheims, translated the Vulgate into English, among other reasons to combat the influence of rival theologies. This volume elegantly and affordably presents the text of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible, beginning with the creation of the world and the human race, continuing with the Great Flood, God{u2019}s covenant with Abraham, Israel{u2019}s flight from Egypt and wanderings through the wilderness, the laws revealed to Moses, his mustering of the twelve tribes of Israel, and ending on the eve of Israel{u2019}s introduction into the Promised Land. This is the first volume of the projected six-volume set of the complete Vulgate Bible." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Vol. 3 edited by Swift Edgar with Angela M. Kinney; v. 4 edited by Angela M. Kinney.

Includes bibliographical references.

English and Latin text on facing pages.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. The Pentateuch; title: v. 2 The historical books; title: v. 4 The major prophetical books / edited by Angela M. Kinney ; introduction by Swift Edgar