Full Description
Jerome (c. 345-420) was one of the greatest Bibilical scholars of antiquity. Among his achievements was his Latin translations of the Bible `according to the Hebrew', or iuxta Hebraeos. This translation came to constitute the major part of the Vulgate, the standard Bible of Latin Christendom. The author here considers the origin of this project through an analysis of the Quaestiones Hebraicae in Genesim, a commentary on the book of Genesis published at approximately the same time as the first instalments of the translation. The primary focus of the book is the question of Jerome's dependence on Greek scholarship both before and during his own time.
Contents
The Old Testament Text before Jerome; Jerome and the Old Testament text; the Version "iuxta Hebraeos" and the "Quaestiones Hebraicae in Genesim"; the literary genre of the "Quaestiones"; Jerome and his Greek exegetical sources; Jerome and his Jewish sources; summary and conclusion.
