What is the Roman Catholic Bible based on?

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Roman is an epithet first commonly used in England after the protestant revolt to describe the Catholic Church. It is never used by the Catholic Church

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There are many different Bible versions that Roman Catholics use. All of them are based on the highest academic scholarship and reflect the current understanding of the underlying and extant original language texts.

The most well-known bible used by Roman Catholics is the Douay version, which is also the foundation for most subsequent Catholic versions of The Bible.

All or most 'English translation' Bible are compiled from a variety of sources. The Douay (or Douay-Rheims) Bible is based on the Latin Vulgate, which is itself a translation from the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek of the original texts.

Other Bibles such as the

• Jerusalem Bible (JB)
• New Jerusalem Bible (NJB)
• New American Bible (NAB)
• Revised Standard Version (RSV) Catholic Edition
• New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Catholic Edition

... are all 'Roman Catholic' Bibles. Yet, when compared with other Bibles, most readers will see very little difference, the details, doctrines and message being virtually identical in all Bibles, Catholic, Protestant or otherwise.

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Catholic AnswerThe Bible is based on God, Who is the author of Sacred Scripture. The Old Testament Scriptures are taken from the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the Bible in use during Our Blessed Lord's life on earth, most of the references in the New Testament are taken from the Septuagint. The New Testament is based on the Scriptures that were read in the Churches at Mass. The Church decided at Councils in the fourth and fifth centuries which books were truly inspired and belonged in the Bible, and which weren't.