Jerome – Translation of the Book of Tobit and Judith
Document: | Translation of the Book of Tobit and Judith |
Incipit: | Preface to Tobit: Mirari non desino Preface to Judith: Apud Hebraeos |
Addressee: | Chromatius and Heliodorus |
Date: | 407 |
Latin Text: | R. Weber and B. Gryson, eds., Biblia sacra: iuxta Vulgatam versionem (Stuttgart 1994). [text provided by Douay-Rheims Bible Online] |
English Translation (Preface Only): | Tobit Preface translated by Kevin P. Edgecomb: here. Judith Preface translated by Kevin P. Edgecomb: here. Judith Preface translated by Andrew S. Jacobs: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_preface_judith.htm Preface paraphrased in W.H. Fremantle, “Tobit and Judith” in NPNF2, vol. 6 (New York, 1893), p. 494. |
Notes: | This was eventually incorporated into the Vulgate. |
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