11-17-2008, 09:55 PM
Stephen,
To my understanding the New Testament Latin vulgate became the dominate TRANSLATION from the Greek - much in the same way that, today, our English NT TRANSLATIONS dominate in the West (N. America, Europe and many other locations.) Latin was the language of the "clergy" and the language of most of North Africa. Everyone pretty much knew(from their point of view now) that the Greek was the language of the original manuscripts. English is the common language in n. America today and pretty much the street language throughout Europe yet 98% of NT scholars accept the fact the our english translations are based on the Greek manuscript texts.
To my understanding the New Testament Latin vulgate became the dominate TRANSLATION from the Greek - much in the same way that, today, our English NT TRANSLATIONS dominate in the West (N. America, Europe and many other locations.) Latin was the language of the "clergy" and the language of most of North Africa. Everyone pretty much knew(from their point of view now) that the Greek was the language of the original manuscripts. English is the common language in n. America today and pretty much the street language throughout Europe yet 98% of NT scholars accept the fact the our english translations are based on the Greek manuscript texts.