Vulgate Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Critical value == In translating the 38 books of the Hebrew Bible ([[Ezra–Nehemiah]] being counted as one book), Jerome was relatively free in rendering their text into Latin, but it is possible to determine that the oldest surviving complete manuscripts of the Masoretic Text which date from nearly 600 years after Jerome, nevertheless transmit a consonantal Hebrew text very close to that used by Jerome.<ref name="Kenyon81">{{cite book|last=Kenyon|first=Frederic G.|url=https://archive.org/stream/MN41613ucmf_0#page/n117/mode/2up|title=Our Bible and the Ancient Manuscripts|year=1939|edition=4th|place=London|page=81|author-link=Frederic George Kenyon|access-date=2011-01-06}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page