Question

Who translated the Old and New Testament from Hebrew and Greek into Latin?

a) Martin Luther
b) John Wycliffe
c) St. Augustine
d) Jerome

Answer 1

The monk Jerome translated the Old and New Testament into Latin, producing the Vulgate, the main biblical text in Europe until the 16th century.

Step-by-step explanation:

The translation of the Old and New Testament from Hebrew and Greek into Latin was undertaken by Jerome, a monk who produced a Latin version of the Christian Bible known as the Vulgate. This translation became the main edition used in Europe until the sixteenth century. It was not until 1442, during the Renaissance, that the definitive 'final' version of the Bible was established by the Western Church, which included determining the canonical books of the Old Testament.

Martin Luther, on the other hand, was involved in the Protestant Reformation and translated the Bible from Latin to German to make it more accessible to ordinary people, but he was not responsible for the earlier Latin translation.