Western Civilization I / Unit 8 WC1 0716 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Latin West, Greek East: Jerome's Vulgate
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The idea
The New Testament was written in Greek, the East's language of state and church. Jerome translated the Bible into Latin, the Vulgate, about four hundred, read in the West until the sixteenth century. The Western Old Testament canon was fixed in fourteen forty-two.
In practice
The Vulgate is witnessed; Jerome's name and the anchor's four ten are not.
Where people slip
Universal in name, divided by language.
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