Re: less

Thu, 04 May 2006 14:45:27 GMT: "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:

Ruud Harmsen wrote:

3 May 2006 21:11:09 -0400: hrubin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Herman Rubin):
in sci.lang:

We can get an idea from the Vulgate which ones he followed
mostly; one point of difference I recall is the number who
went down to Egypt. There are others.

So far, if I am not mistaken, noone answered my question from what
sources dating from when the Vulgate was translated.

What's your suggestion?

If Jerome lived a lie for 40 years, and didn't translate the Vulgate
from Hebrew, what did he use?

Older Latin manuscripts? (already suggested)
Other Hebrew and Aramaic sources, but we do not know which ones and
what happened to them?
The Septuagint?
A bit of all three?

Hard to say without further evidence. Let's agree we simply do not
know?
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