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Almost no translations are based on the Latin. Possibly some Catholic ones are, I don't know. Some translators might have looked at the Latin, particularly in
by mcswell 4y ago
Almost no translations are based on the Latin. Possibly some Catholic ones are, I don't know.
Some translators might have looked at the Latin, particularly in hopes of clarifying some of the Hebrew, since we have almost no non-Biblical texts in ancient Hebrew. I guess the assumption there--if anyone did do this--would be that Jerome (the main translator into Latin) was closer to the time that ancient Hebrew was spoken, and might therefore have had access to a better understanding of its meaning. But this idea is mostly speculation on my part.