Tuesday, December 03, 2024
The Princes of His People
Arnaldo Momigliano, "A Medieval Jewish Autobiography," in his Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism. Edited and with an Introduction by Silvia Berti. Translated by Maura Masella-Gayley (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), pp. 109-117 (at 113):
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In the language of the Psalms with which he had been familiar since his early childhood Hermannus could claim that God "de stercore pauperem erexit et eum cum princibus populi sui collocavit" (see Ps. 112:7-8).I don't have access to Gerlinde Niemeyer, ed., Hermannus quondam Judaeus, Opusculum de Conversione Sua (Weimar: Böhlau, 1963 = Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Quellen zur Geistesgeschichte, Bd. 4). But the Vulgate of Psalm 112(113):7-8 reads:
Suscitans a terra inopem, et de stercore erigens pauperem: ut collocet eum cum principibus, cum principibus populi sui.Also, the edition of Hermannus' Opusculum in Patrologia Latina, vol. 170, cols. 803-836 (at 835, from cap. XXI) reads:
Ecce enim misericors et miserator Dominus de stercore pauperem erexit, et eum cum principibus populi sui collocavit.This leads me to think that princibus in Momigliano's quotation could be a misprint for principibus.
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