What is the Latin Vulgate?
” The name Vulgate simply means common. This was the official Bible of the Catholic Church for over a thousand years. It was translated by Jerome, a brilliant Bible Scholar who spent many years living in Bethlehem and working with the original languages of Hebrew and Greek. Jerome was also called Eusebius Hieronymus and did his translating between 383 and 405 AD. 51. Why so many translations? Bible translations fall under two main themes. Those that are a literal translation and those that seek to put the Bible into an understandable contemporary English. Both methods have strengths and weaknesses. We also have a range of translations due to seeking to present God’s truth in simple through to complex English. Language is also living, this means that words change their meanings with time Thus the need for revision and improving to reflect our current use of language. 52. What is a Study Bible? A Study Bible may have some of the following Bible study supports: * A concordance of where wo
