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I. Jerome translated the Hebrew MT text into Latin using the lower Chronological numbers: 1. Jerome translated the Hebrew manuscript in 400 AD into Latin and followed the lower Masoretic Genealogical numbers in Gen 5,11.
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The Vulgate is usually credited as being the first translation of the Old Testament into Latin directly from the Hebrew Tanakh rather than from the Greek Septuagint.
Sep 27, 2024 · St. Jerome’s legacy as the translator of the Bible and a fierce defender of Scripture endures to this day. His monumental achievement in translating the Bible into Latin made the Word of God accessible to millions, shaping Christian thought and devotion for centuries.
The study of Hebrew prepared Jerome for his important work – a Latin translation of the Bible from the original (see *Bible, Latin Translations). This translation, together with his translation of the New Testament from Greek to Latin, was accepted as the official version of the Scriptures in the Catholic Church, and is known as the Vulgate ...
Of the Old Testament texts not found in the Hebrew, St. Jerome translated Tobit and Judith anew from the Aramaic; and from the Greek, the additions to Esther from the Septuagint, and the additions to Daniel from Theodotion.
Revision by Jerome of the Old Latin, corrected with reference to the oldest Greek manuscripts available: the Gospels. Jerome’s independent translation from the Hebrew: the protocanonical books of the Old Testament, with the exception of the Psalter. This was completed in 405.
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A Jew who had become a Christian was his instructor in Hebrew (xviii. 10), and Jerome obtained from one of the sect of the Nazarenes at Beroea the Gospel according to the Hebrews, which he copied, and afterwards translated into Greek and Latin (de Vir. Ill. 2, 3).
