[soc.religion.christian] E-sources of the Bible, in various translations

news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer) (02/27/91)

In <Feb.25.09.32.54.1991.1790@athos.rutgers.edu> appears:

>[I have a list of online bibles that I'll send to him separately.  I
>don't know of any FTP-able Bible other than KJ.  For copyright reasons
>there aren't likely to be.  The LDS don't really have a separate
>translation.  Joseph Smith made some inspired changes to the KJV, but
>it seems that they use standard translations most of the time,
>particlarly the KJV.  --clh]

Copyright reasons can't be the explanation for the unavailability of the 
old Douay-Rheims (Catholic) translation - it dates from about the same 
time (give or take a century) as the King James Version.  I suspect that 
the reason for its unavailability in electronic form is just that no one 
has bothered transcribing it yet.