[B-Greek] latin Bible

John McChesney-Young panis at pacbell.net
Wed Sep 28 22:21:17 EDT 2005


Stephen Payne wrote:

> A complete Nova Vulgata (hardback) is hard to come by... and fairly 
> expensive if you can find one.  However, there happens to be one available 
> through ABEBooks for about $100. 

It's much cheaper through the publisher:

http://www.paxbook.com/texec/catalogue02.jsp?cat=B37

although you won't find the Nova Vulgata used much if at all anywhere 
but in very recent Roman Catholic liturgical books and in the Navarre 
Bible Commentary series. It's essentially the Clementine text of the 
Vulgate, slightly altered to match the Vatican textual critics' notion 
of the original texts and to fix the Latin on occasion. Its reason for 
existence was to supply an authorized Latin scriptural text for 
_editiones typicales_ of liturgical books. For the older traditional 
ecclesiastical text, I think the only edition of the Clementine text in 
print is the one published by BAC in Spain:

http://www.bac-editorial.com/home.htm

(It should be somewhere there, but the web site isn't very easy to 
navigate.)

It's available more conveniently in the US from the American Classical 
League:

http://tinyurl.com/c96vk

There have been hundreds if not thousands of editions of the Vulgate 
since the Gutenberg Bible was published, and 19th and 20th century 
editions are, if not exactly common, at least not particularly rare and 
can sometimes be found used in the $15-30 range from bookstores and on 
eBay. A caveat: Be advised that the Bagster edition of the Vulgate (19th 
c., perhaps reprinted into the 20th) lacks the 
Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical books.

The standard critical version of the Vulgate is the Stuttgart edition 
already mentioned by Kevin Woodruff, distributed in the US by the 
American Bible Society. (Actually, the standard critical edition might 
rather be considered the _editio major_ of Wordsworth and White for the 
NT and the many (expensive) volume Roman edition of the OT, but for most 
practical purposes it's the Stuttgart.)

I see that Eisenbraun's is selling the Stuttgart edition for $56, a few 
dollars less than the ABS:

http://www.eisenbrauns.com/wconnect/wc.dll?ebGate~EIS~~I~VULGATA

John

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