[B-Greek] Parallel Greek-English Bibles (Not Interlinear)

Stephen C. Carlson scarlson at mindspring.com
Mon Jun 20 20:24:44 EDT 2005


At 12:07 PM 6/18/2005 -0400, Schmuel wrote:
>Even though this was a month ago, and perhaps technical, wouldn't the Rheims 
>have been translated from the Latin Vulgate text ?  In a scholarly work you 
>could show a Greek equivalent to the Latin but it was not the base text used 
>by the translators.

The Rheims was translated out of the Latin Vulgate but "diligently
conferred with the Greeke."  In the mid 1700s, it was further
revised by Challoner to be closer to the KJV.  The KJV itself has
a few places where they translate the Latin instead of the Greek.

Stephen Carlson 
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