The first translation
of the Bible from Greek to Latin,
now the
common language (the vulgar or "Vulgate")
of the Mediterranean
world, was made by Jerome, in Rome, in 383-384 AD. He based
his translation on the Hebrew text of the
Palestinian canon, but
translated from the Greek Septuagint canon those
books not
found in the Palestinian canon. Jerome's Old
Testament canon
for the Latin Vulgate contained the books of the
Alexandrian
canon, 46 books.
Old
Testament canon: 46 books
The
Septuagint
The
Alexandrian Canon
383-4
