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Bonaventura Ubach

Bonaventura Ubach

Spanish Benedictine and orientalist (1879–1960)

Bonaventura Ubach i Medir, or Buenaventura Ubach Medir,[1] (Barcelona, 2 April 1879 - Montserrat, 19 February 1960) was a Benedictine monk of the Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey, orientalist and biblical scholar.

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As a traveler and student of the territory and languages of the Middle East, he compiled a large collection of archeological material.[2] It is exhibited in the Museum of Montserrat and was a decisive contributor to its creation. In 1929, he began the project of the Biblia de Montserrat, a translation of the Bible into the Catalan language.[3]

Biography

After entering Santa Maria de Montserrat Abbey in 1894, he was ordained a priest in 1902.[4] He traveled to Jerusalem in 1906 and studied in the École Biblique where he met Marie-Joseph Lagrange. In 1907 he was named professor in the Syriac seminary of Jerusalem, and when he returned to Montserrat in 1910, he laid the foundations for the orientalist museums of the monastery. He was a professor of the Syriac language and the Hebrew language at the Anselmianum in Rome from 1913 to 1922. He lived in the Middle East, where he collaborated with the Syriac Catholic Church in producing an edition of liturgical texts with Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem II Rahmani. After leaving Jerusalem, he participated in a regionalist project led by Francesc Cambó and the Fundación San Dámaso to produce a Bible in the Catalan language. Subsequent disagreements led him to abandon the project and direct his own project in producing the Biblia de Montserrat.[5] In 1928, he acquired 200 Egyptian papyri, considered to be the first private collection of such manuscripts in Spain.[6] He returned to Montserrat in 1951, where he regularly celebrated liturgy according to the Syriac Rite.[7]

Works

  • El Sinaí: viatge per l'Aràbia Pètria cercant les petjades d'Israel (1913; second edition 1955; third edition 2011[8])
  • Legisne toram? (1919)
  • La Bíblia. Versió dels textos originals i notes pels monjos de Montserrat[9]
    • El Gènesi (1926)
    • L'Èxode (1927)
    • Levític (1927)
    • Els Nombres (1928)
    • El Deuteronomi (1928)
    • El Psalteri (1932)
    • I i II de Samuel (1952)
    • Litúrgia siríaca de Sant Jaume (1952)
    • Dietari d'un viatge per les regions de l'Iraq (1922-1923) (2009)[10]

References

  1. [1]
    Amalia Zameño (2006). "Los manuscritos árabes de la Biblioteca de la Abadía de Montserrat". In Fundación El legado andalusí (ed.). Los manuscritos árabes en España y Marruecos. p. 120. ISBN 9788496395169.
  2. [2]
    Maigí, Raül. El llegat del biblista arqueòleg, El Punt, 14 de enero de 2008
  3. [3]
    Massot i Muntaner, Josep. Els creadors del Montserrat modern: cent anys de servei a la cultura catalana, L'Abadia de Montserrat, 1979, Vol.3 Biblioteca Serra d'Or, p.95-96, ISBN 84-7202-337-0, 9788472023376
  4. [4]
    Gironell, Martí (December 2010). Las aventuras de un monje. Barcelona: Sapiens. pp. 4–49. ISSN 1695-2014.
  5. [5]
    Riera i Milà, José M.[dead link], Fundació Catalunya-Amèrica Sant Jeroni de la Murtra (acceso 16-11-09)
  6. [6]
    Tudela i Penya, Montserrat. La papirologia: una ciència de futur de la mà del passat, Revista del Col·legi Oficial de Doctors i Llicenciats en Filosofia i Lletres i en Ciències de Catalunya, núm. 129, Enero de 2008
  7. [7]
    Janeras, Sebastià. Els cristians de l'Iraq[dead link], Hoja Diocesana Solsona-Vic, 9 de abril de 2006, p.4
  8. [8]
    Edición facsímil del libro «El Sinaí» de Bonaventura Ubach
  9. [9]
    La Bíblia. Versió dels textos originals i notes pels monjos de Montserrat Archived 2010-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, Casal i Vall, 1990 (Primera edición:1970), ISBN 99913-1-005-3
  10. [10]
    Reseña del libro Dietari d'un viatge per les regions de l'Iraq (1922-1923)

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