Prethodno priopćenje
Jerome's translation of Tobit
Mato Zovkić
; Univerzitet u Sarajevu - Katolički bogoslovni fakultet
Sažetak
Motivated by Pope Damasus, financially supported by several bishops and a group of
educated Christian women of Rome, Jerome performed the task of translating individual Old Testament books from about AD 388 to 405, living and working in Bethlehem. In contrast to most other
Christian scholars of his time, who considered the Septuagint Greek translation inspired and therefore suitable for translating the Bible into Latin, Jerome insisted on Hebrew truth (hebraica veritas)
and hired competent instructors of Hebrew and Aramaic to acquire the necessary knowledge of the
Semitic languages of the Old Testament books. In his letters to benefactors, especially to bishops Cromatius and Heliodorus, who used the Book of Tobit in the pastoral care of their faithful, and in
the Prologues to several translated books or commentaries, he pointed out that the Jewish leaders
and theologians of Jerome’s time did not accept Tobit among the canonical books. He personally
was convinced that Tobit could be used in pastoral activities but as an apocryphon, in the sense of
not belonging to the canon of the Christian Church. Aware that the Apostles used the Septuagint
but did not leave before their deaths any official list of Old Testament books, by treating Tobit as
non-canonical St. Jerome helped the Church of his own time and later times to discern which books
of Jesus’ people should be accepted into the Christian canon. The Vulgate Latin text contained for
centuries additions and omissions that do not exist in the Greek text of Tobit. One ironically criticized addition was a request to newly married believing couples to live in continence for the first
three days after marriage before consummation (Tob Vg 6:18; 8:4-5). The Nova Vulgata, ordered
by Pope Paul VI and promulgated by John Paul II, has been cleansed of this and other additions.
Ključne riječi
hebraica veritas; Pope Damasus; benefactors; instructors for the Hebrew and Aramaic language; Jerome’s letters and Prologues to individual translated books or commentaries.
Hrčak ID:
259759
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Datum izdavanja:
25.6.2021.
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