Episode 1: Introduction to the Vulgate

In Episode 1, Dr. Junius Johnson introduces the Vulgate translation of the Bible: who made it, when was it made, why was it made, when was it adopted, etc.

Show Notes

• You can download the reading plan as a pdf here.

• The music in the introduction is Auf, schmetternde Töne der muntern Trompeten (“Awake, Blaring Sounds of Lively Trumpets!”) (BWV 207a) by Johann Sebastian Bach. The piece was probably premiered in 1735. This recording is made by Brass of an arrangement for brass quintet by Hubert Meixner.

• The image for this episode is the beginning of the Gospel of Mark from the Codex Amiatinus Vulgate, held in the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (available here).