Latin versions of the Bible

The Latin versions of the Bible or Bible Latina are translations of the Bible into Latin.

Ancient Italy or Vetus Latina

It comes from the Septuagint or Seventy Version for most of the Old Testament books and from the Greek originals for the New Testament books. It was in use during the Western Roman Empire from the 2nd to the 5th century. That is, it was not a direct translation from the Hebrew.

Vulgate

Towards the end of the 4th century, Pope Damasus I commissioned a new Latin version from Saint Jerome. It sticks very closely to the Hebrew texts. This version was definitively imposed in the 7th century. The term Vulgate would refer to Vulgata editio (disclosed edition).

Veteris et Novi Testamenti nova translatio

La Veteris et Novi Testamenti nova translatio, was the translation of the Bible into Latin, closest to the Hebrew text and published for the first time in 1528 and published on several occasions.

Vatablo Bible

The Vatablo Bible was a compilation of Vetablo's commentaries with two translations, the Vulgate version, with the Santes Pagnino version, revised by the doctors of the University of Salamanca.

Beza

During the Protestant Reformation, Theodore Beza produced a new Latin version of the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the apocryphal Gospels. Given the low demand for Latin Bibles among Protestants, their translation never achieved wide circulation, despite which, both its text and its abundant exegetical notes, influenced the Geneva Bible (English translation of 1560, half a century before the King James version).

Latin Bible of Leuven

Critical edition prepared by the University of Louvain using 30 manuscripts. Leuven Latin Bible

New Vulgate

The Nova Vulgata Editio is a modern revision of the Vulgate, in the light of new manuscript discoveries and critical editions, intended as an official text for the Latin liturgy. The preparation of the Neovulgata began in 1965, under the pontificate of Paul VI. John Paul II promulgated it on April 25, 1979 with the Apostolic Constitution Scripturarum Thesaurus. A second edition appeared in 1986.