medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Okay. I vote for scrapping both "Vulgate" and "Septuagint" as meaningless words
in a scholarly world.
--V. K.
Quoting John Briggs <[log in to unmask]>:
> > I think "Vulgate" very probably is meaningless. Restricting it to
"Jerome's
> translation" is probably hopeless, especially as that probably wasn't
> exactly what anyone in the Middle Ages actually had in front of them. The
> "Stuttgart Vulgate" seeks to reproduce precisely what Jerome wrote, but as
> changes set in almost immediately, the usefulness of that edition isn't
> readily obvious. I would much prefer to have a 'typical Medieval Vulgate' -
> whatever that might be! (Incidentally, nearly all copies of "The Vulgate"
> loose on the internet are defective copies of the Stuttgart Vulgate.) Even
> the "Clementine Vulgate" underwent changes - particularly in the 20th
> century! The existence of a "Nova Vulgata" suggests that the unqualified
> use of the word "Vulgate" is unwise. (There isn't a single Old Latin
> version either, and seeing that Jerome was revising one or more of them, and
> didn't finish the task because he got interested in Hebrew ... )
>
> John Briggs
>
>
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