1582 Rheims New Testament; PB; reprint (once banned, rare ); Recusants
$ 23.76
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paperback 8 x 5"; 578 pp St Edmund's Press Couer d'Alene, Idaho 2018 This is the original text before the Challoner revision. The footnotes and commentaries are not included. Spelling has been updated for modern usage. This is not a photographic facsimile edition. Modern typesetting was used. The current text was printed by Burns and Oates in 1926 and now reprinted in 2018 “ Every corner of England was searched for those books (Rheims New Testament) — the ports were laid for them, Paul’s Cross is witness of burning many of them, the Prince’s proclamation was procured against them; in the universities by sovereign authority colleges, chambers, studies, closets, coffers and desks were ransacked for them.” Which New Testament is the most banned and hunted in western history? It is a New Testament you have never heard of — and yet perhaps you have! Answer: The Rheims New Testament of 1582. There’s no doubt that a New Testament by the name of Rheims (or “Douay-Rheims” in the case of the entire Bible), will be found in many contemporary Catholic bookshops, and even well-stocked Protestant stores, as well as on the Internet. But those so-called “Rheims” were actually re-written by Bishop Richard Challoner and though they bear the name “Rheims,” churchmen ranging from Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman to Scripture exegete and translator Msgr. Ronald Knox, have protested against calling the Challoner New Testament, “Rheims.” The original and true Rheims first published by fugitive Catholic scholars in France, is a slavishly faithful translation of St. Jerome’s Latin Vulgate . It has been out print for nearly a hundred years. We have faithfully printed verbatim the text of the original, but in modern type and spelling, with easy-to-read, large print. Our edition includes a new introduction by historian Michael Hoffman, and another by Benedictine scholar Gilbert Roger Hudleston, O.S.B. This is the New Testament that would not die. The Latin Vulgate in English, the authentic voice of Britain’s repressed and hunted Catholics, has returned to print. Smuggled into Britain more than four hundred years ago, it is the magnum opus of the English Counter-Reformation. (from the current publisher, Michael A. Hoffman)
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