Abstract
Arias Montano is known as the scientific supervisor of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible. But he was also one of the most important biblical intepreters in Renaissance Spain. From his exegetical commentaries, the prefaces to the Polyglot and particularly three treatises of the Apparatus, some of his hermeneutical principles can be gleaned. The author analyses these principles in the context of sixteenth century conception of Hebrew as the primordial and secret language. Special attention is paid to the idioms of biblical Hebrew and the force of the original sounds that can hardly be reproduced in other languages. Montano's insights into the language of the gestures and the body (treatise De Actione) concerning the symbolic actions of the prophets, anticipate modern theories and strategies of communication.
Highlights
Arias Montano is known as the scientific supervisor of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible
The author analyses these principles in the context of sixteenth century conception
Special attention is paid to the idioms of biblical Hebrew
Summary
En cuanto arte de comprender un texto escrito, es una disciplina relativamente moderna ^, Sin embargo, los tratados antiguos de introducción a la Escritura, las reglas y métodos para interpretarla, así como los comentarios exegéticos, son de carácter hermenêutico por naturaleza. Puede decirse que es el primer tratado de semántica bíblica con finalidad hermenéutica: comprender los modismos y semitismos del griego bíblico ^. Junto con los prólogos de la Políglota, forman los pilares en los que basa su interpretación, y constituirán el núcleo de mi argumentación en torno a: a) el hebreo como lengua sacra y primordial, b) sus modismos y efectos sonoros, c) el sentido arcano, y d) el lenguaje del cuerpo, los gestos y la acción, en suma, la comunicación no verbal. Intentaré ilustrar estos apartados de la mano de algunos ejemplos extraídos de sus comentarios bíblicos
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