tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post6672196684192401148..comments2023-10-04T09:50:08.070-05:00Comments on Logismoi: 'Ignorance of Scripture Is Ignorance of Christ'—St Jerome of StridoniumAaron Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-68101132908368831592009-06-29T12:12:48.531-05:002009-06-29T12:12:48.531-05:00Right, and even though St Paul had a number of co-...Right, and even though St Paul had a number of co-authors, they never appear in his icons, either. The only case I know of is St Prochoros with St John. There are very likely others, though.<br /><br />St John Chrysostom and St Augustine both had squads of scribes trained in shorthand, which is how we ended up with so many of their sermons preserved.<br /><br />Another title that should be in my List of Shame (i.e., shamefully unread) is <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Scribal-Culture-Making-Hebrew-Bible/dp/0674024370" rel="nofollow">Scribal Culture and the Making of the Hebrew Bible</a></i> by Karel van der Toorn. I've read various articles on scribal practice, none of which comes to mind (they're usually pretty boring). Then there's the very interesting book by Stanely Stowers <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Writing-Greco-Roman-Antiquity-Library-Christianity/dp/0664250157/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246295253&sr=1-9" rel="nofollow">Letter Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity</a></i>, which was a good read, showing that scribes were involved in most letter writing, reformulating statements and so on. That was the way they did things. It impressed upon me, in addition to the aforementioned multiple co-authors of St Paul, that it would obviously be impossible to determine "Paul's style", as so many claim to have done, and which of the letters are therefore forgeries. The idea that Paul was like some misanthropic professor, squirreled away in his study scribbling away all by his lonesome, has as much to do with Paul as typing on a laptop computer does.Kevin P. Edgecombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16590490181739464401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-43272779153843821382009-06-29T08:49:11.562-05:002009-06-29T08:49:11.562-05:00Yes, in the St Paul of Thebes post, I pointed out ...Yes, in the St Paul of Thebes post, I pointed out that even though St Jerome was aiming for a simple style, he can't avoid literary allusions. I mentioned noticing one of my favourite lines from Virgil, among others.<br /><br />Interesting point about the scribes. They manage never to turn up in the artistic depictions it seems.Aaron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-37911800946547228232009-06-29T01:18:27.474-05:002009-06-29T01:18:27.474-05:00I assure you my translations are not inspired!
Bu...I assure you my translations are <i>not</i> inspired!<br /><br />But I did, while doing those, manage to pick up on Jerome's discursive style and other interesting tidbits of Hieronymiana.<br /><br />For one thing, though he may not have been reading Cicero anymore, he never forgot him. He'd still quote from Cicero. It's obvious that he knew him very well.<br /><br />Also, St Jerome didn't work alone. As he describes in some of the prologues to his translations, he typically hired a secretary, someone to take dictation. He translated on the fly, as it were, and had these hired scribes to do the busy work of the writing.<br /><br />Fun stuff!Kevin P. Edgecombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16590490181739464401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-14730438958452193282009-06-28T19:55:14.468-05:002009-06-28T19:55:14.468-05:00Yes, I definitely would have liked to do one on th...Yes, I definitely would have liked to do one on the Prophet Amos today (or the Prophet Elisha yesterday)! But I had too many other things to post, as one can see...Aaron Taylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17775589009145031773noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714437334790446678.post-87604368414164074372009-06-28T19:25:23.554-05:002009-06-28T19:25:23.554-05:00What? No posts for Metropolitan Jonah of Moscow, ...What? No posts for Metropolitan Jonah of Moscow, the Prophet Amos, or the Martyrs of the Turkish Yoke? I jest...<br /><br />For those on the Julian, when taking into account the usual Sunday Resurrectional service, today was a veritable liturgical potpourri. I can't recall the last time so many major Saints and commemorations had their feastdays fall together.G Sanchezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11797757461858023882noreply@blogger.com