>A well-meaning attempt at acquiring a vulgate resulted in
>the acquisition, instead, of another latin Bible,
>ex interpretatione Theodori Bezae, Cambridge, 1642.
>(reprinted in 1925)
>since I only spent about $ 5, no harm was done, and
>I would be most interested if list members could tell me
>what it is I have got.
I'm guessing by the information you provide that you have (Calvinist)
Theodore Beza's translation of the New Testament, published first in 1557
(although dated 1556), in the reprint of the 1642 Cambridge edition that
the British and Foreign Bible Society published from some time before 1923
(my copy's date) until some time in the 1980's (the last time I saw it
new). It's no longer listed at the American Bible Society site, nor at the
United Bible Society's Latin page:
<http://www.ubs-translations.org/public/seahft/catalog/latin.html>
which leads me to suspect it's not currently being printed.
H. P. V. Nunn says of Beza's work in his _An Introduction to Ecclesiastical
Latin_, "It is interesting to an advanced student to compare this version
with the Vulgate" (p. 6), Beza having generally used a more Classical style
and vocabulary, although with frequent demonstrative pronouns (e.g., John
1:1, "In principio erat Sermo ille, et Sermo ille ...").
The _Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church_ says Beza produced it, with
notes and a his new edition of the Greek text, with the intention that it
be a replacement for Erasmus' editions of the same, which he "considered
doctrinally and textually unsound."
The only copies I've seen of this are bound with the version of the Psalms
done by Tremellius and Junius, from their translation of the Old Testament
published 1575-79.
More information on both Beza's New Testament and the Tremellius and Junius
Old Testament can be found on scattered pages of the third volume of the
_Cambridge History of the Bible_.
>More to the point,
>can anyone identify a Latin bible
(snip)
I regret I'll have to leave that to someone else, or if your library has a
copy of Darlow and Moule's _Historical catalogue of the printed editions of
Holy Scripture in the library of the British and Foreign Bible Society_ you
could try to find it in there.
John
John McChesney-Young ** [log in to unmask] ** Berkeley, California, USA
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