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Translating The Bible

The Bible was translated from Greek into 20th Century modern language through many centuries of hard work and determination to help the reader to understand the messages the authors wrote. The New Testament was composed between the years 50-140 CE. The development of the New Testament canon takes place right at the beginning. Greek text was formed from many different versions of survived and copied manuscripts; the oldest surviving being from the book of John Chapter 18, in the year 125 CE. The earliest list of the books of the New Testament was written by Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, in his Easter letter of 367. The Codex Sinaitcus and Codex Vaticanus were the first two fully compiled New Testament copies as a whole.
Around 382 CE, Jerome's translation of the Bible set in stone what we would consider to be the New Testament canon. He translated the Greek text into Latin; known as the Latin Vulgate or vulgar, which remains to be used by the Roman Catholic Church to this day.......


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