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Re: Hebrew - Latin - ?

From: lorencrow AT earthling.net (Loren Crow)
To: Andrew C Smith <a.c.smith AT juno.com>
Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: Re: Hebrew - Latin - ?
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:57:28 -0600

At 5:43 AM 3/15/99, Andrew C Smith wrote:
>Is it a working consensus of scholars that Jerome us the Hebrew text, and
>not the LXX, as the basis (Vorlage) for his Vulgate?

Except in the case of the Psalms, where he originally prepared a
translation from the Hebrew (the juxta hebraeos) and had to prepare another
from the Greek (the juxta graecae). According to Pierre-Maurice Bogaert
(ABD 6:800-801), he also worked quite a bit from Origen's _Hexapla_ as an
aid to understanding the Hebrew. Hope this helps.

Loren

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Hebrew - Latin - ?, Andrew C Smith, 03/15/1999
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- Re: Hebrew - Latin - ?, Loren Crow, 03/15/1999