The Vulgate Bible, Volume III: The Poetical Books: Douay-Rheims Translation - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674996682 ISBN 13: 9780674996687

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

This is the third volume of a projected six-volume set of the complete Vulgate Bible. Compiled and translated in large part by Saint Jerome at the turn of the fifth century CE, the Vulgate Bible permeated the Western Christian (and later specifically Catholic) tradition from the early medieval period through the twentieth century. It influenced literature, visual arts, music, and education during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and its contents lay at the heart of Western theological, intellectual, artistic, and even political history during that period. At the end of the sixteenth century, as Protestant vernacular Bibles became available, professors at a Catholic college first at Douay, then at Rheims, translated the Vulgate Bible into English, primarily to combat the influence of rival theologies.

Volume III presents the Poetical Books of the Bible. It begins with Jobs argument with God, and unlike other Bibles the Vulgate insists on the title characters faith throughout that crisis. The volume proceeds with the soaring and intimate lyrics of the Psalms and the Canticle of Canticles. Three books of wisdom literature, all once attributed to King Solomon, also are included: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Wisdom. Ecclesiasticus, an important deuterocanonical book of wisdom literature, concludes the volume. The seven Poetical Books mark the third step in a thematic progression from Gods creation of the universe, through his oversight of grand historical events, and finally into the personal lives of his people.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Swift Edgar is a research assistant at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

Angela M. Kinney is a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and research associate at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0674996682
• ISBN 13: 9780674996687
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1232
• Herausgeber: Edgar Swift, Kinney Angela M.
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