[B-Greek] Judith 13:19 textual variant

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Tue Sep 9 12:51:29 EDT 2003


At 14:22 09/09/2003, Susan Jeffers wrote:

>I tried looking up the Vulgate on Perseus, but what they have at Judith 
>13:19 doesn't match the context of the verse in the NRSV or Rahlfs at all 
>-- it's something about Holofernes and the Assyrian military.   In 
>BibleWorks the Vulgate for Judith 13:19 looks about twice as long as it 
>needs to be and also doesn't seem to bear much resemblance to the NRSV 
>verse; I read just about no Latin, anyway!

Susan:
If you check with a printed copy of the Jerusalem Bible, you will find that 
in the verse numbering for Judith 13 the number 19 is in ordinary Roman 
type, but with 25 in italic type immediately below it. This is how the JB 
distinguishes places where the Vulgate numbering differs from the Greek. 
Incidentally, the first note ( in the study edition ) for Judith remarks 
that " the Vulgate text differs considerably from the Greek ".

  -- and here is the Vulgate of Jd 13:25 ( courtesy Bible Windows ):

 >>  13:25 quia hodie nomen tuum ita magnificavit  ut non recedat laus tua 
de ore hominum  qui memores fuerint virtutis Domini in aeternum  pro quibus 
non pepercisti animae tuae  propter angustias et tribulationem generis 
tui  sed subvenisti ruinae ante conspectum Dei nostri  <<

Happy wrestling with the Latin <g>

Regards,

Maurice


Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie





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