Theologie des Alten Testaments

von Dr. Gust. Fr. Oehler, weil ord. Prof. der Theol., Ephorus des evang.-theol. Seminars in Tübingen

Justi Gesenii ... Trost-Predigten : uber etliche dazu sönderlich aussgelesene trostreiche Texte heil. Schrifft altes und neues Testaments.

One hundred twenty-eight sermons; pt. 1, Old Testament; pt. 2, New Testament.

[Last will and testament of Sigismund Born].

Last will and testament of Sigismund Born, Berlin 1897

[Testament von Selig Rosenthal und dessen Ehefrau Regine Rosenthal, geb. Michael].

Handwritten last will and testament (photocopy and typed transcript) of Selig Rosenthal and his wife Regine Rosenthal, née Michael, Gleicherwiesen (Thuringia, Germany), 1860.

The Rise and Fall of a Translational Compound: ‘Only Begotten’ in the English Translations of the New Testament

The present paper is an attempt to account for the emergence of the designation “only begotten” in the English Bible, its widespread use in pre-modern versions, and its gradual and almost complete disappearance from most contemporary translations. A close examination of the origins of this designation, traceable to its Latin cognate unigenitus, first introduced into the biblical tradition by St. Jerome to render selected occurrences of the Greek adjective monogenes, reveals a unique theological inspiration behind it. “Only begotten,” recurring in English translation of the Bible for almost six centuries as an important christological title, has recently been replaced by translational solutions reflecting a more accurate understanding of the underlying Greek word.