VULGATA: Cuál fue su origen y por qué es tan importante | BITE

Jerome was born around 345 AD in Dalmatia. In 383 AD, Bishop Damasus (366-384) of Rome saw the need to compile the various Latin translations into an official edition. By then, Jerome was already known as a leading Hebrew expert and served Damasus as his secretary and translator. Jerome was commissioned to revise Old Latin, and by 384 he had completed the Gospels and perhaps, a little later, other portions of the New Testament. For the next few years, in Bethlehem, where he had moved, he continued his work translating several Old Testament books. These, however, were translated from the Septuagint and not from Hebrew. But the more Hebrew Jerome learned, the more convinced he became that the final authority for any Old Testament book must come from Hebrew. Consequently, he began a new translation of the Old Testament directly from the Hebrew language. Jerome spent the years 390 to 405 AD translating the Old Testament into Latin directly from Hebrew. He first translated Samuel and Kings. Then the Psalms, which he had previously revised twice. Next came the Prophets and Job, followed by Ezra and Chronicles, and finally the remaining books of the Old Testament. He also corrected the New Testament. For this, Jerome revised the existing Old Latin, but fortunately, he also revised the Greek manuscripts. We don't know which manuscripts he used exactly, but in the gospels, for example, he seems to rely primarily on a text similar to those we have today, which we know as the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus manuscripts. Throughout the Middle Ages, the Vulgate was corrected and widely copied. Later, this version would serve as the basis for all Christian translations in Western Europe. The Vulgate became the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church, and remains so to this day. The use of the Latin Vulgate began to decline after the Second Vatican Council, which took place from 1962 to 1965, when it changed the Church's liturgy, which until then had been practiced only in Latin. SOURCES: Understanding How the Bible Was Created, by Neil R. Lightfoot: https://amzn.to/31J02jW Bible Analysis and Research Techniques: https://amzn.to/2OLSRo1 How Did the Bible Reach Us?: https://amzn.to/2ONGRSW FOLLOW US Website: http://biteproject.com TikTok:   / biteproject   Twitter:   / biteproject   Podcast: https://audioboom.com/channels/4977856 Instagram:   / biteproject   Facebook:   / biteproject   CREDITS Host: Nicolás Osorio. Script: Daniel Clavijo and Giovanny Gómez Pérez. Production: Giovanny Gómez Pérez and Pilar Prieto. Video editing: Fernando Ordoñez. Graphic support: Nayibe Gómez. Music: Envato Elements.