Who translated the Bible from Hebrew and Greek to Latin?
There are several Old Latin versions. These probably appeared from the latter part of the second century C.E. onward. The whole Bible in Latin seems to have been used in Carthage, North Africa, at least by 250 C.E. The Hebrew Scriptures were translated into Old Latin from the Greek Septuagint (not yet revised by Origen), but the Christian Scriptures were rendered, not from a translation, but from the Greek. Various translations may have been made, or at least a number of translators worked on the Old Latin version. Scholars usually refer to two basic types of Old Latin text: the African and the European. No complete manuscripts are extant; only about 30 fragments. The most well known may be the scholar/translator known as Jerome. Jerome’s Latin name was Eusebius Hieronymus. He was born about 346 C.E. in Stridon, in the Roman province of Dalmatia, near the present-day border between Italy and Slovenia Jerome received Pope Damasus’ full support. The pope had good reason to encourage Jero
