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Jan 6, 2019 · The Vulgate, or Latin form of the Bible, was commissioned by the Bishop of Rome during a time when Latin was becoming the official language of the church. Latin translations existed, but they had been translated from the Geek Septuagint instead of earlier Hebrew translations.
The entire Bible has been translated into over 700 languages, and the New Testament into over 1,500 languages. This list is English-based… that is, I want to list the timeline from the original writings to major or notable modern English Bibles.
Around 382 AD the Pope commissioned his secretary, Jerome, to produce a new translation in Latin, as the Septuagint-based versions were, shall we say, rather messy. Jerome set about the task with reported trepidation, but also with great seriousness.
Aug 1, 2024 · Early Latin translations appeared by 2nd century CE but lacked consistency. Saint Jerome created a standardized version called the Vulgate around 405 CE. Commissioned by Pope Damasus I, Jerome used original Hebrew texts rather than previous Latin versions.
The books of the Bible were very likely written in the cursive style of writing. The cursive (or "running hand") style joins the letters of a word together as when we write today. In addition, the ancients had two other styles of writing: the lapidary (from the Latin word, lapis, meaning stone) and the uncial (from the Latin word uncia, meaning ...
The Bible in Latin: 2nd - 4th century AD. During the 1st century Greek remains the language of the small Christian community, but with the spread of the faith through the Roman empire a Latin version of the Bible texts is needed in western regions. By the second century there is one such version in use in north Africa and another in Italy.
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the earliest translators and translations of the Bible into the four main languages of Ghana—Gã, Ewe, Twi, and Mfantse—during the eigh- teenth to nineteenth century missionary era.