Meaning of hebraica veritas | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The traditional Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Jewish Bible, viewed as its original, correct, and authoritative text.
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2. Saint Jerome's Latin Vulgate translation of the Jewish Bible, viewed as a faithful and authoritative rendering of the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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Examples

“It is impossible to understand the book of Job without consulting the hebraica veritas.”

““Once again it becomes apparent that the Christians, however devoted to the hebraica veritas, could not be so bold as the Jews; for their interpretations were always subject to censorship by the custodians of an infallible tradition that was partly independent of Scripture.””

““Jerome had gone to Palestine to study the Hebrew language at its source and produce a new translation of the Bible from a restored hebraica veritas.””

““With the rise of towns and universities, the interest of Christian scholars in the Hebraica Veritas rose.””

““Guy returned to Salomon’s a week later. ‘It is audacious of me to ask you for a favor that will only waste your time, but I have come to think that to truly understand scripture, I must ascertain the Hebraica veritas from the original Hebrew.’””

““In a pair of chapters on the neglected story of how Hebrew figured in the Christian imagination, Mr. Glinert tells how Christians learned Hebrew both to access ‘hebraica veritas,’ or Hebrew truth, and to monitor the Jews in their midst ‘with the goal of mastering the mischief and the falsehoods of the Jews,’ as a 14th-century writer put it.””

“At this point the Old Latin versions are almost incoherent: we must follow Jerome's hebraica veritas instead.”

““Jerome began it, offering hebraica veritas, and Greek truth also, but in Latin.””

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