As versões alemãs da Bíblia em comparação

• Autor(a) principal: Herold, Bernardo Jerosch
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/gaudiumsciendi.2013.2584

The German versions of the Bible in comparison. Abstract: The various German translations of the Bible and their genesis along the history are presented. In the first place are mentioned the manuscripts and the Greek, Latin, Gothic, ancient English and German versions existing before the 15th Century. This is followed by an explanation of the role played by the Protestant Reformation of the Church in the 16th Century and the invention of printing with movable characters as reasons for the creation of new translations. The texts which were used in the translations are described, namely the masoretic text of the Hebrew Bible and some of the Septuaginta for the Old Testament and the critical edition by Erasmus of Rotterdam of the Textus Receptus for the New Testament. The translating work of Luther and the Zurich workshop and their respective context within the History of the Reformation are reported, as well as the importance of Luther’s translation as a model for the translation in other languages of countries, which followed the Lutheran Reformation. The German versions are compared with each other and with versions in other languages of countries following the Calvinist Reformation. The consequences of Luther’s version on the development of a German National identity are analysed. The main German translations presently used are quoted and briefly characterized.