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The Latin New Testament

A Guide to Its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts

By: H. A. G. Houghton

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The Latin New Testament

A Guide to Its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts

By: H. A. G. Houghton

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Latin is the language in which the New Testament was copied, read, and studied for over a millennium. The remains of the initial 'Old Latin' version preserve important testimony for early forms of text and the way in which the Bible was understood by the first translators. Successive revisions resulted in a standard version subsequently known as the Vulgate which, along with the creation of influential commentaries by scholars such as Jerome and Augustine, shaped theology and exegesis for many centuries. Latin gospel books and other New Testament manuscripts illustrate the continuous tradition of Christian book culture, from the late antique codices of Roman North Africa and Italy to the glorious creations of Northumbrian scriptoria, the pandects of the Carolingian era, eleventh-century Giant Bibles, and the Paris Bibles associated with the rise of the university. In The Latin New Testament, H. A. G. Houghton provides a comprehensive introduction to the history and development of the Latin New Testament. Drawing on major editions and recent advances in scholarship, he offers a new synthesis which brings together evidence from Christian authors and biblical manuscripts from earliest times to the late Middle Ages. All manuscripts identified as containing Old Latin evidence for the New Testament are described in a catalogue, along with those featured in the two principal modern editions of the Vulgate. A user's guide is provided for these editions and the other key scholarly tools for studying the Latin New Testament.

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0198744730

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Augustine's Text of John

Patristic Citations and Latin Gospel Manuscripts

By: H. A. G. Houghton

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Augustine's Text of John

Patristic Citations and Latin Gospel Manuscripts

By: H. A. G. Houghton

What sort of Bible did Augustine have? How did he quote from it - and was he accurate? Do Augustine's biblical citations transmit readings not found in any surviving manuscripts? This book is part of a major project on the Old Latin versions of the Gospel according to John, and uses Augustine as a test-case to examine the importance of the evidence provided by the Church Fathers for the text of the Gospels. The early history of the Latin Bible is reconstructed from Augustine's comments in his treatise De doctrina christiana (On Christian teaching). Details are assembled from sermons, letters, and other writings to show how Augustine and his contemporaries used the Bible in the liturgy of the Church, public debates, and in composing their own works. Augustine's own methods of citing the Bible are analysed, and features are identified which are characteristic of citations produced from memory rather than read from a gospel codex. The second part of the book is a chronological survey of the biblical text in Augustine's works, showing how he switched from using the older versions of the Gospel to the revised text of Jerome, which later became known as the Vulgate. Finally, a verse by verse commentary is provided on all the significant readings in Augustine's text of John, assessing their significance for the history of the Latin Bible, and in some cases the Greek tradition as well. Details are also given of Augustine's exegesis of particular verses of the Gospel, making this an indispensable handbook for biblical scholars and church historians alike.

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0191609358

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The Principal Pauline Epistles: A Collation of Old Latin Witnesses

By: H.A.G. Houghton,C.M. Kreinecker,R.F MacLachlan,C.J Smith

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The Principal Pauline Epistles: A Collation of Old Latin Witnesses

By: H.A.G. Houghton,C.M. Kreinecker,R.F MacLachlan,C.J Smith

The earliest Latin versions of the writings of the New Testament offer important insights into the oldest forms of the biblical text, the use of language in the ancient Church and the foundations from which Christian theology developed in the West. This volume presents a collation of Old Latin evidence for the four principal Pauline Epistles (Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians and Galatians). The sources comprise twenty-six Vetus Latina manuscripts, ten commentaries written between the fourth and sixth centuries and four early testimonia collections. Their text differs in many ways from the standard Vulgate version. Created using innovative digital editing tools, this collation makes this valuable data available for the first time and is complemented by full electronic transcriptions online.

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The Latin New Testament

A Guide to Its Early History, Texts, and Manuscripts

By: H. A. G. Houghton

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Commentary on the Gospels

By: Fortunatianus Aquileiensis,Fortunatianus (Bishop of Aquileia)

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Commentary on the Gospels

By: Fortunatianus Aquileiensis,Fortunatianus (Bishop of Aquileia)

The commentary as transmitted in the Cologne manuscript consists of four principal sections: an initial section on the characteristics of the four Gospels (praef., lines 1- 133 of the edition);20 an extensive exposition of Matthew 1:1-2:18, apparently in three chapters (M. long. I-III, lines 134-574); a numbered list of the titles for each of the 160 sections of the full commentary (cap. M. I-CXXVIIII / cap. L. I-XIII / cap. J. I-XVIII, lines 575-755); the commentary itself, treating almost all of the Gospel according to Matthew in 129 chapters (M. I-CXXVIIII) followed by a portion of Luke in 13 chapters (L. I-XIII) and the opening of John in 18 chapters (J. I-XVIII) (lines 756-3306). There is no initial dedicatory letter or statement of authorial intent. The indication of the end of a given section, explicit, is found at the end of the first two parts and also at the end of the whole commentary in the Cologne manuscript (lines 133, 574 and 3306). Nevertheless, the unity of the work is demonstrated by internal connections. In particular, the first seven chapters of the full commentary refer back to the earlier, more detailed treatment of the beginning of Matthew, which itself contains an indication of the commentary to follow and a reference to the preceding introduction.21 The critical edition by Dorfbauer includes, as an Appendix, two passages from the "Pseudo-Theophilus" commentary which may represent borrowings from Fortunatianus in sections missing from all extant witnesses to the commentary ("Excerpta dubia").

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3110524201

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The Oxford Handbook of the Latin Bible

By: H. A. G. Houghton

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The Oxford Handbook of the Latin Bible

By: H. A. G. Houghton

The Introduction provides an overview of the history of the Latin Bible, with a summary of the contents of each chapter in this Handbook and the rationale for their arrangement. It then discusses the terminology for referring to the Latin Bible, along with a mini-glossary of specialist terms in manuscript and textual studies which appear in the chapters. The principal editions of the Latin Bible are introduced, along with other resources for its study such as book series and databases. Finally, the conventions for the Handbook are explained, such as spelling practices for Latin and proper nouns"--

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