It isn’t a Catholic Bible publisher and they don’t publish Catholic Bibles.
So, you are saying that Archbishop Hermann Schäufele of Freiburg-im-Breisgau was wrong to give the first edition an imprimatur?
I’ve read a few pages of the Preface in which it lists various sources such as Eusebius and Pelagius, Eusebius not being a bad guy, but Pelagius most definitely is among the bad guys.
You mean “
Ceterorum librorum Novi Testamente forma Vulgata apud Pelagium vel asseclas eius saeculo quinto ineunte primum invenitur”? It says, “Of the other books in the New Testament *, the Vulgate form is first found with Pelagius and his followers at the beginning of the fifth century.”
This is not a reference to Pelagius as a source for their work, but a reference to Pelagius and company as
witnesses of the Vulgate text type.
The sources for the BSV and NV are listed in pages 37-42. Pelagius is not amongst them.
by happenstance have enlisted some Benedictines to lend some appearances of credibility to their “scholarship,” do you really think I should trust them with the task of furthering authentic Catholic scholarship, namely my own?
Did you miss the whole part about this having been a Catholic project from the beginning? As that same Wikipedia article says, “In 1907 Pope Pius X commissioned the Benedictine monks to prepare a critical edition of Jerome’s Vulgate …] In 1933, Pope Pius XI established the Pontifical Abbey of St Jerome-in-the-City to complete the work.” That is the Abbey to which Weber belonged, the same Abbey which produced
the OT text for both the BSV and the NV.
If I’m looking to spend some money on a Latin Bible, why as a Catholic do I want to drop that money into the hands of Protestants? I’d rather line the pockets of the Vatican Publishing house which is the source for the V2 sanctioned Nova Vulgata.
Given that the OP said that the NV is out of print, I was not aware that it was still available, hence my asking him whether the BSV were acceptable as an alternative.
The Stuttgart version is a Protestant response to V2’s request.
A project sponsored by a Protestant publisher, produced by an interfaith editorial board headed by a Catholic, of a text produced predominantly by half a century of Catholic scholarship, hence the imprimatur.
There ya go: they admit the created a “manual edition” that is** reduced**
, that means some words were taken out to make it smaller, so as to fit easily in the hand.
Um, actually, what they reduced was the critical apparatus, not the text. As they note, they have not referenced absolutely everything, and thus they refer “the serious textual student” back to the full-size variorum editions.
The primary sources are both Roma and OXFORD - Anglican Oxford. Again the fox and the hen house come to mind.
In that case, you might like to read the second paragraph under “NOVUM TESTAMENTUM”
here, particularly regarding what it says about the Nova Vulgata’s connection to the Biblia Sacra iuxta Vulgatam Versionem, i.e. the BSV in question, the Wurttemberg Bible Society, and Protestant scholars.
P.S. It is worth mentioning that the Protestants are expert in using Bibles and Bibles studies to dupe ignorant persons and have done so for hundreds of years. Is this any different or is it aimed at those who think they can out smart the devil?
So, “Protestants are evil; Protestants were involved in this project; therefore, this project is evil”? Wow. In that case, nothing
I say can ever have any merit, can it?*
