Modern Scholarship on the Latin Bible

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Abstract Abstract: This chapter presents the development of scholarship on the Latin Bible from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. The predominance of the Sixto-Clementine Vulgate meant that early proposals to revise the Vulgate bore little fruit, although Pierre Sabatier published a scholarly edition of the Old Latin text in the middle of the eighteenth century. The development of New Testament textual criticism in the latter part of the nineteenth century led to the discovery of new manuscripts and major critical editions, most notably the Oxford Vulgate for the New Testament and the Roman Vulgate for the Old Testament. The series of publications related to these editions have provided a steady stream of academic research into individual manuscripts and editorial principles and methodology.