Desiderius Erasmus (1466?-1534 AD) was an enthusiast of Biblical languages and longed to reproduce them. He met with encouragement from the times, it being the Renaissance and the heyday of humanism....
Saint Jerome wrote the Vulgate. Jerome was a Roman Catholic priest who lived from 347 to 420 AD. He and others consulted original texts in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic to clean up the Latin translation...
These are two different translations of the Bible. The Greek Septuagint is a Greek translation of the Hebrew text completed around 2 BCE. 400 years later, Jerome's Latin Vulgate translated Hebrew and...