

There is also a book available called The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible. This older Hebrew text only exists in fragments today, but the parts that do exist can be read in English at the web site Dead Sea Scrolls Bible Translations. Original Hebrew has more about the differences between the two texts. That older Hebrew text was discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls which are a thousand years older than the oldest Masoretic text manuscript.Įvery book in the Old Testament except Esther is represented in the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the Deuterocanonical books. and translated from Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament which were centuries older than the Masoretic text. Saint Jerome produced the Latin Vulgate in the 4th century A.D. The Masoretic Hebrew text does not contain the Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament. The earliest extant manuscript of the Masoretic text is from the 9th century A.D. Most English Old Testaments are translated from the Hebrew Masoretic text which was produced between the 7th and 10th centuries A.D. The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew (with a few parts in Aramaic). The Latin Vulgate is based on Older Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament


Any discussion of the Douay-Rheims Bible must include the Latin Vulgate. It is an English translation of Saint Jerome's 4th century Latin Vulgate.

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