Re: Gutenberg Bible not avail. in plain text?

On 6/20/06, Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> wrote:
> Well, FWIW, there are quite a large assortment of Latin translations and
> retransaltions of the Bible around.  John Calvin reportedly did one himself, and
......
> What edition is the biblegateway one?
I wondered if Henrik might have been comparing
Jerome's Vulgate with the New Vulgate.

The Navarre Bible commentary includes the
New Vulgate along with English or Spanish;
its text for Gen 11:9 is:

Et idcirco vocatum est nomen eius Babel, quia
confusum est labium universae terrae....

That looks the same as the text at biblegateway.com
as far as I've compared them (just in this verse).

I checked the version information at biblegateway.com:

>>The Vulgate present on the Bible Gateway is the fourth edition of
the Biblia Sacra iuxta vulgatam versionem. It was originally published
in 1969, and this fourth edition was released in 1994.
<<

http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/?action=getVersionInfo&vid=4

In other words, it's the New Vulgate
- Jerome's translation revised in the 1960s and later
by modern scholars - though BibleGateway doesn't
use that term.

Apparently there were a number of variations in
the various Vulgate manuscripts in use
before the Council of Trent, which ordered a
standardized text to be compiled by comparison
of the variants: the Clementine Vulgate of 1592.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate

Gutenberg's Vulgate follows
a different manuscript variant in this passage
than was selected by the editors of the Clementine
Vulgate or the Nova Vulgata.

Here is the Clementine Vulgate's text:

11:9 Et idcirco vocatum est nomen ejus Babel, quia ibi confusum est
labium universæ terræ : et inde dispersit eos Dominus super faciem
cunctarum regionum.

http://vulsearch.sourceforge.net/html/Gn.html

Pretty near identical to the Nova Vulgata in this verse,
but different from Gutenberg's Vulgate.

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm