Webb's Easy Bible Names Pronunciation Guide: Featuring every proper name in
the English Bible (including the Apocrypha)
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Who should use this guide? Anyone who desires to pronounce the names of
people and places in the Bible with confidence. Do you read passages of the
Bible in public? This book is for you. In private devotions, do you skip the
difficult names? This book is for you. This book was originally begun as a
pronunciation guide for myself as I was recording the Douay-Rheims Audio
Bible. When I was commissioned to do that work, I was surprised to find that
there was apparently nothing currently in print specifically for the
Douay-Rheims version that could help me to properly pronounce names of people
and places. In order to expedite the narration, I began to compile a list of
names and carefully researched pronunciations, and that list became the book
that you now hold in your hands. Somewhere along the way, I decided to
include the spellings and pronunciations of all the English translations I
could find. As far as I know, every spelling of every name in every English
translation of the Bible is included in this guide. Since the the genesis of
this guide was for the Douay-Rheims Audio Bible, which is a Catholic Bible,
names included in the Apocrypha appear here as well. Great effort has been
made to include every English Bible translation’s names and places in this
work. If the reader would be so kind as to write to me at
[email protected] if the reader is aware of omissions, I will
include additions in subsequent editions of this guide. It is important to
note that in my research, I became aware of the fact that there are differing
opinions on the correct pronunciations of many of the names contained in the
Bible. Often there really is no one “correct” way to pronounce a specific
name. Languages do morph over time, and pronunciations can change. This guide
includes the generally accepted pronunciations in the United States in the
year 2012.