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Biblical languages are any of the languages employed in the original writings of the Bible.Some debate exists as to which language is the original language of a particular passage, and about whether a term has been properly translated from an ancient language into modern editions of the Bible.
However, two fragments discovered in the 20th century, dating from the 4th to 5th centuries, changed scholars' views on the history of the Bohairic text-type. [37] The text-type transmitted by them is so different from later known manuscripts that it has been designated as proto-Bohairic text (cop bo). It even differs in language.
The earliest surviving manuscript with the text for the Oaths of Strasbourg (842), traditionally considered the first Old French text, dates from the 11th century. [121] 882: Balinese: dated royal inscription [122] c. 900: Old Occitan: Tomida femina: c. 959–974: Old Leonese: Nodicia de Kesos: c. 960–963: Italian: Placiti Cassinesi [123]
The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.As of November 2024 the whole Bible has been translated into 756 languages, the New Testament has been translated into an additional 1,726 languages, and smaller portions of the Bible have been translated into 1,274 other languages according to Wycliffe Global Alliance.
The oldest translation of the Bible into a Slavic language, Old Church Slavonic, has close connections with the activity of the two apostles to the Slavs, Cyril and Methodius, in Great Moravia in 864–865. The oldest manuscripts use either the so-called Cyrillic or the Glagolitic alphabets.
Masoretic Text: The Old Testament translation is based on the Hebrew Masoretic text. It follows the edition of Seligman Baer except for the books of Exodus to Deuteronomy, which never appeared in Baer's edition. For those books, C. D. Ginsburg's Hebrew text was used. This Bible version is now Public Domain due to copyright expiration. Judaism
The oldest text of the entire Christian Bible, including the New Testament, is the Codex Sinaiticus dating from the 4th century CE, with its Old Testament a copy of a Greek translation known as the Septuagint. The oldest extant manuscripts of the vocalized Masoretic Text date to the 9th century CE. [1]
Part of the 5th-century Quedlinburg Itala fragment, the oldest surviving Old Testament Vetus Latina manuscript. Vetus Latina manuscripts are handwritten copies of the earliest Latin translations of the Bible (including the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, the Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament), known as the "Vetus Latina" or "Old Latin".
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