Biblical Hebrew Forum

[AMK Judaica <amkjudaica AT hotmail.com>]

Dr. Rea,

 

You wrote, "So there was no tradition of copying and studying of the Hebrew 
texts by the Christian Church." 

 

There was a very strong Christian Hebraist movement in early modern 
Europe--with medieval precendents--that most certainly studied Hebrew texts.

While I don't know about Christian scribes copying Hebrew texts--although I 
suspect you are correct--, there was a tradition of copying in the sense of 
printing. Many (most?) of the early Hebrew Bibles were printed by Christians. 
(This includes standard Bibles, rabbinic Bibles and polyglots, all in the 
same century as the Council of Trent you refer to.)

 

Have a good weekend,

Ari Kinsberg

Brooklyn, NY (sojourning in Israel)


> 
> 
> But also within the church those that did read the Hebrew scriptures did not
> read them in Hebrew, they read them in translation, primarily Latin. In the
> link below there is some relevant information, one important point is that
> at the Council of Trent in 1546 the Vulgate was declared to be the only
> recognised Bible for the church. This was just a statement of the situation
> which prevailed at the time. So there was no tradition of copying and
> studying of the Hebrew texts by the Christian Church.
> 
> http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/religionandthought/p/prvulgate.htm
> 
> 
> Bill Rea Ph.D., ICT Services, University of Canterbury \_
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> Phone 64-3-364-2331, Fax 64-3-364-2332 /) Zealand
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