Beyond a Confessional Paradigm? Richard Simon and the Vernacular Bible
This article presents a new account of Richard Simon's work as a biblical translator. Having first contextualised Simon's views on the vernacular Bible in the contested world of late seventeenth-century French Catholic biblical translation, it then examines how they were engaged with and d...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2024
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2024, Volume: 75, Issue: 4, Pages: 678-701 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Simon, Richard 1638-1712
/ Bible
/ Translation
/ Vernacular language
/ French language
/ Catholic church
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| IxTheo Classification: | HA Bible KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBG France KDB Roman Catholic Church |
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| Summary: | This article presents a new account of Richard Simon's work as a biblical translator. Having first contextualised Simon's views on the vernacular Bible in the contested world of late seventeenth-century French Catholic biblical translation, it then examines how they were engaged with and disputed by contemporaries (in particular, Antoine Arnauld). It contends that Simon's novelty did not consist in applying history and philology to the Bible in order to reach a confessionally neutral version, but rather in reconceptualising the relationship between multiple legitimate biblical translations to craft a new form of Catholic vernacular Bible. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046923001689 |