TheVulgata Latinaas Sacred Text: What Did the Council of Trent Mean When it Claimed Jerome's Bible wasAuthentica?
Theodore P. Letis
The crisis caused for the Roman Catholic Church by what has been termed, historians, Northern Renaissance can hardly be overestimated. popular notion that formal breakaway of Protestant Reformation, and activities Luther Calvin, were decisive factors in Rome's fall does not fully capture truth. It was Erasmus who had inspired both branches Reformation movement (and third flank known as 'radical Reformation'), so it received most severe disapprobation Tridentine Index. was, after all, Erasmus's impudence producing a rival Greek text Bible (from manuscripts produced schismatic East) superior to ancient Vulgata Latina lit original conflagration which would become revolution. Hence, one primary tasks appointed Council Trent (1544-63) reaffirm, clearest way possible, dominical sanction Latin over either or Hebrew versions. any case, these newly published editions seen cause all folly fallen on sixteenth-century Church. But just did mean when claimed only could considered 'authentica'? authorial intent uniformly clear enough its contemporaries followed. As mid-twentieth century, however, modern papal encyclical altered Council's meaning. This article surveys history this point attempts provide reader with data recognize historical revisionism taken place since pronouncements. Now give thee also intelligence particular, gentle reader, such thinges behoueth specially know concerning our Translation: We translate old vulgar text, common Greeke causes ... is better than al other translations, but then itself, those places where they disagree. (Preface Rhemes New Testanzent, 1582)
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