Polemika vokrug «evrejskaja istina» («hebraica veritas») v Rossii v načale XVI veka

VERITAS HEBRAICA POLEMICS IN RUSSIA IN THE 16th CENTURY The expression “hebraica veritas”, which can be found in a polemical writing of Maximus the Greek against the Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives, expresses a concept that had been formulated in late antiquity by St. Jerome to justify the use of the Hebrew originals over the Greek version of the Septuagint for the Latin translation of the Bible. The article shows that Maximus the Greek was aware of the ongoing debate in the West about the Septuagint version and sets out the reasons for his defense of it.