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The Church Fathers · c. 391–393

Hebrew Questions on Genesis

Quaestiones Hebraicae in Genesim

Jerome · c. 347 – 420

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What it is

Not a commentary but a list of places where the Greek and Latin Bibles have gone wrong and the Hebrew says something else, with the rabbinic explanations Jerome had picked up from his Jewish teachers at Bethlehem — including that the ark's window was a precious stone, and what Adam's rib actually says.

Why it lasted

The first work by a Christian to treat the Hebrew text as the court of appeal over the Septuagint, which is the decision that produced the Vulgate and set the Western canon on a different footing from the Eastern one. Augustine wrote to beg him not to do it.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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