Chapter 42 (Silence after Compline), vss 3b and 4 state: "Someone should
read from the Conferences or the Lives of the Fathers or at any rate
something else that will benefit the hears, but not the Heptateuch or the
Books of Kings, because it will not be good for those of weak understanding
to hear these writings at that hour; they should be read at other times."
Thomas Sullivan, OSB
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John B. Wickstrom [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
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> Subject: Re: Comments, anyone..., Song of Songs
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> Doesn't the Rule of Ben edict also suggest that Kings not be read by the
> younger monks?
>
> Graham Williamson-Mallaghan wrote:
>
> > >Watson does not mention any earlier complete excisions.
> >
> > The Bowdlerisation of the Song of Songs (and what a great
> > way to get any healthy adolecent to go off and read the
> > thing) is reminiscent of Ulfilas' Gothic Bible, of the mid
> > C4th. Ulfilas entirely left out the Book of Kings, on the
> > grounds that the Goths already had sufficient experience of
> > both kings and warfare, and neither were to be encouraged
> > in peoples becoming a serious danger to the Romans.
> >
> > What other examples of late antique and medieval (or later)
> > Biblical censorship can anyone send into the list?
> >
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