Joe Pope wrote:
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> This for Jennifer Lockhart,
> The origin of Interpretation of Hebrew Names is not easy to fathom.
> For research I suggest Repertorium Biblicum Medi Aevi by F. Stegmuller vol
> 5 page 234 item 7709. It gives many additional references and suggests
> Cardinal Stephen Langton as the author. Then there is "Stephano Langton
> (d.1228) e la Tradizione delle sue opere" published by Aschendorf of
> Munster page 33 paras 1.4.2.1 : 1.4.2.1.2; and 1.4.2.1.3 again
> suggesting Stephen Langton.
> The trouble is that the whole body of Langton's works is no longer
> known precisely. Thus it has to be determined whether Langton was cribbing
> from Bede who might have cribbed from Saint Jerome.. I wish you every
> success and very much look forward to a report in time.
> Joe Pope
I would add that in all liklihood Jerome was cribbing from his
predecessors, on the Greek side, if not the Latin. See for example
Epiphanius (Jerome's contemporary), Eusebius and before him Origen, and in
general the Philonic tradition. Philo seems to have had access to a
wealth of such etymological information (Lester Grabbe did a monograph on
the subject), and probably to handbooks that contributed to the
development of the Christian "Onomastic" tradition; indeed, fragments of
such works have been found among the papyri as well.
A fascinating topic.
Bob
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