Jerome, Preface to Ezra: now online in English

Roger Pearse

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Aug 12, 2004, 4:27:16 PM8/12/04

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Mark DelCogliano has translated the preface St. Jerome did for his
translation of Ezra into English. He has very kindly made it available
online and in the public domain:

<http://www.tertullian.org/fathers#Jerome>.

Please take copies and circulate them freely, use for any purpose etc.
The more the merrier.

All the best,

Roger Pearse

Inger E Johansson

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Aug 12, 2004, 9:01:38 PM8/12/04

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Roger,
Please send a thank to Mark DelCogliano. Nice of him to translate it and
good of you to help us to it.

Inger E

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Roger Pearse

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Aug 13, 2004, 10:11:53 AM8/13/04

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I will. It's very nice that he's done it and even more so that he's
made it available to us all. His footnotes are really useful also. I
gather he's going to have a shot at Eusebius, De solemnitate
paschalis, also.

There seem to be quite a few of Jerome's prefaces to books of the
bible untranslated. If anyone else is reading this and fancies having
a go at them -- they're quite short -- I'd be glad to publish them
through the additional fathers collection.

All the best,

Roger Pearse

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John Briggs

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Aug 13, 2004, 11:27:51 AM8/13/04

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Roger Pearse wrote:
>
> There seem to be quite a few of Jerome's prefaces to books of the
> bible untranslated. If anyone else is reading this and fancies having
> a go at them -- they're quite short -- I'd be glad to publish them
> through the additional fathers collection.
>

What I find mildly ironic is that there doesn't seem to be a reliable text
of the Vulgate (apart from the Clementine Vulgate and the Nova Vulgata) on
the Web. All I can find are defective copies of the Stuttgart Vulgate.
--
John Briggs

Thomas Bushnell, BSG

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Aug 13, 2004, 2:56:26 PM8/13/04

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"John Briggs" <john.b...@ntlworld.com> writes:

> What I find mildly ironic is that there doesn't seem to be a reliable text
> of the Vulgate (apart from the Clementine Vulgate and the Nova Vulgata) on
> the Web. All I can find are defective copies of the Stuttgart Vulgate.

Copyright annoyance, of course, scholars claiming copyrights on a work
which is not original.

John Briggs

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Aug 13, 2004, 5:38:33 PM8/13/04

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It might be extremely original, depending on whether or not it represents
what Jerome actually wrote :-)

But the net result is surely the opposite of what was intended, in that all
the copies in circulation are defective.

In any case, what would be really valuable, instead of an 'ideal' text of
Jerome's time, would be a representative medieval text.
--
John Briggs

Roger Pearse

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Aug 14, 2004, 5:51:56 AM8/14/04

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"John Briggs" <john.b...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<X55Tc.2529$Nc5...@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net>...

Are the Latin texts of the prefaces actually online anywhere? I
haven't access to the text or I'd be tempted to have a go myself.

Jim Sheffield

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Aug 14, 2004, 2:30:59 PM8/14/04

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"Roger Pearse" <roger_...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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I am looking for a translation of his introduction
to Chronicles. Thanks!

Jim