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.