Showing posts with label Bible. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bible. Show all posts

Saturday, February 20, 2021

Lutheran Latin Guide to the Hebrew Old Testament: Reineccius' Janua

Christian Reineccius, Janua Hebraeae Linguae Veteris Testamenti: in qua Totius Codicis Hebraei Vocabula una cum radicibus & Grammatica vocum difficiliorum analysi comparent (Lipsiae: Sumpt. Haered. Lanckisianorum, 1704).

Back in college (Concordia University Nebraska) I was blessed to learn Hebrew well from Dr. Mark Meehl, but as time goes on, you have to either use your language abilities or lose them! Hebrew is still there in the back of my mind somewhere, but since I work with Luther's German and Johann Gerhard's Latin nearly every day, that's much easier. 

To get back into reading the Hebrew Old Testament, I've found this book to be very helpful. It goes through the text verse by verse and gives the definition and form of every difficult Hebrew word, while also indicating the roots of most words. If your Latin is better than your Hebrew, and if you want a good free resource, try this!



Friday, August 28, 2020

Altenburg Bible

My friend Matthew Carver asked me yesterday if there was a good Lutheran resource that has a devotion or summary of each chapter of the Bible. Indeed there is! The Altenburger Bibelwerk is a special Bible that has prefaces for each chapter of the Bible written by Franz Vierling (1538-1611) and prayers at the end of each chapter written by Luther's assistant Veit Dietrich (1506-1549). Carver found an online copy from the 1700s that also has short poems before and after each chapter written by David von Schweinitz (1600-1667). In the 19th c. this was republished in America (I think) for use by LCMS Lutherans. There's a nice review of it in Der Lutheraner. We had a copy of this at the CPH library, and I perused it from time to time, but now I have a PDF on my tablet, and you can have a PDF for free, too. There are other editions of it, but this is the one I have. Enjoy!

Altenburger Bibelwerk:

Biblia, Das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrift, Alten und Neuen Testaments / Nach der deutschen Ubersetzung D. Martini Lutheri, Nebst Dessen Geist-reichen Vorreden und Rand-Glossen; Jmgleichen mit M. Viti Dieterichs Summarien, Und Francisci Vierlings Vorreden, Dann Mit des Herrn David von Schweinitz Historisch- und Moralischen Versen über jedes Capitul der Heil. Schrift, erläutert: Samt vielen locis parallelis, oder gleich-stimmigen Schrift-Stellen, Und Einem Dreyfachen Register (Braunschweig: Meyer, 1722).

Review in Der Lutheraner.