Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.
VETUS TESTAMENTUM. - A quarterly published by the International Organization of Old Testament scholars, founded at Leiden in 1951.
It may already be counted among the most authoritative organs of Old Testament scholarship. Protestants, Jews, and Catholics contribute to II. It includes articles (averaging 16 pages), brief notes, and reviews, sometimes extensive ones. It is especially devoted to textual criticism and to research applying to the Old Testament the new Orientalist knowledge and
(from Petit de Julleville, Histoire de la langue et littérature française, Paris 1889, p. 556) VEUILLOT, LOUIS - RITATTO.for discussions concerning the manuscripts of the Dead Sea. The articles are written in English, French, and German; unlike the international journals published in Rome, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin are excluded. The publisher is the firm E. J. Brill.
BIBL.: anon., Déclaration, in V. T, 1 (1951), p. 1; on the organization cf. Biblica, 32 (1951), p. XXIII, no. 387.
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“VETUS TESTAMENTUM.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. XII (1954), p. 857. Azione Romana digital edition, https://azioneromana.com/article/vetus-testamentum.
