Dictionnaire hébreu-latin-français de la Bible hébraïque de l'Abbaye de Ramsey (XIIIe s.)
By: édité sous la direction de Judith Olszowy-Schlanger ; avec la collaboration de Anne Grondeux et de Philippe Bobichon ... [et al.].
Contributors: Ramsey Abbey; Longleat House (Warminster, England)
Series: Corpus Christianorum. Continuatio Mediaevalis. Series in-4⁰ -- 4; Lexica Latina medii aevi -- [4]; Corpus Christianorum -- 4.; Corpus Christianorum -- 4.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: lat
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9782503526539
Subjects: Hebrew language; Dictionaries; Early works to 1800; Latin
Description: This work constitutes the critical edition and in-depth study of a unique dictionary of Biblical Hebrew written by Christian scholars at Ramsey Abbey in East Anglia, during the third quarter of the 13th century. Each of the Hebrew entries in the dictionary (over three thousand five hundred, alphabetically arranged) has been translated into Latin, as well as Old French (in more than a thousand cases) and also into Middle English (in three cases). These translations are illustrated by quotations from the Vulgate, which are in turn corrected according to the literal meaning of the Hebrew Bible or its Jewish interpretations. Rather than follow the patristic tradition of Hebraism and engage in anti-Jewish polemics, the Christian authors of this exceptional work actually turned to Jewish Rabbinic and Medieval sources, including the Aramaic targumim, midrashim, Rachi's commentaries, ibn Parhon's dictionary of Hebrew roots and so on. Building on the grammatical approach of the Spanish school, they elaborated a genuine philological work where the Hebrew Bible was used to correct the Vulgate, and more generally where the knowledge of the Hebrew language served to access and understand the original text of the Bible.
Notes: Edition of  a Hebrew-Latin-French dictionary that comprises a portion of the manuscript Longleat House 21.

Series numbering within the series Lexica Latina medii aevi from publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [cxxi]-cxxvi)and indexes.

Text of the medieval dictionary primarily in Latin, with entry words in Hebrew; introduction and appendices in French.