The Vulgate is an early 5th-century Latin version of the Bible, largely the result of the labors of Jerome, who was commissioned by Pope Damasus I in 382 to make a revision of old Latin translations. By the 13th century it had come to be called versio vulgata, which means "a commonly used translation", and ultimately it became the definitive and officially promulgated Latin version of the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church.
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The Vulgate is an early 5th-century Latin version of the Bible, largely the result of the labors of Jerome, who was commissioned by Pope Damasus I in 382 to make a revision of old Latin translations. By the 13th century it had come to be called versio vulgata, which means "a commonly used translation", and ultimately it became the definitive and officially promulgated Latin version of the Bible of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Vulgate is a compound work, only some parts of which are due to Jerome.
Jerome did not embark on the work with the intention of creating a new version of the whole Bible, but the changing nature of his program can be tracked in his voluminous correspondence. He had been commissioned by Pope Damasus in 382 to revise the Old Latin text of the four Gospels from the best Greek texts, and by the time of Damasus' death in 384 he had thoroughly completed this task, together with a more cursory revision from the Greek Septuagint of the Old Latin text of the Psalms. How...
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