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The Douay–Rheims Bible (pronounced or) (also known as the Rheims–Douai Bible or Douai Bible, and abbreviated as D–R and DV) is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the English College, Douai, in the service of the Catholic Church.

The New Testament portion was published in Reims, France, in 1582, in one volume with extensive commentary and notes.

The Old Testament portion was published in two volumes thirty years later by the University of Douai.

The first volume, covering Genesis through Job, was published in 1609; the second, covering Psalms to 2 Machabees plus the apocrypha of the Vulgate was published in 1610.

Marginal notes took up the bulk of the volumes and had a strong polemical and patristic character.

They offered insights on issues of translation, and on the Hebrew and Greek source texts of the Vulgate.

The Catholic Bible is the Bible comprising the whole 73-book canon recognized by the Catholic Church, including the deuterocanonical books.

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.27 billion members worldwide.

As one of the oldest religious institutions in the world, it has played a prominent role in the history of Western civilisation.

Headed by the Bishop of Rome, known as the Pope, the church's doctrines are summarised in the Nicene Creed.

Its central administration is located in the Vatican City, enclaved in Rome, Italy.

The Bible is a compilation of many shorter books written at different times by a variety of authors, and later assembled into the biblical canon.

All but the shortest of these books have been divided into chapters, generally a page or so in length, since the early 13th century.

Since the mid-16th century, each chapter has been further divided into "verses" of a few short lines or sentences.

Sometimes a sentence spans more than one verse, as in the case of, and sometimes there is more than one sentence in a single verse, as in the case of.

As the chapter and verse divisions were not part of the original texts, they form part of the paratext of the Bible.

Biblical studies is the academic application of a set of diverse disciplines to the study of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, the Bible.

For its theory and methods, the field draws on disciplines ranging from archaeology, ancient history, cultural backgrounds, textual criticism, literary criticism, historical backgrounds, philology, and social science.