Bible, which one is the complete one?

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Now I have several bible versions including a protestant one, but I’m more interested in what was before the latin vulgate. If i’m right, the vulgate was originally for the general public to understand, and I’m sure the early church fathers used something else, because they weren’t the general public.

What exactly is this called? I have the clementine vulgate of 1598 and jerome’s vulgate, what is a superior version to this? A greek version?

IS there a latin version which is not the vulgate?

Thanks for clearing up any issues.
 
I understant that there were incomplete Bible translations like the Aquila to Latin and the Peshitta. Those pre canon compilations had often books missing in the OT and the NT. Meaning that the Churches did not shared all the books them.
 
Not half complete books, incomplete list of books. That is one proof the Early Church was not a Bible only church. There was not even a canon them.
 
So what book say would the Vatican be using as their official version of the Bible?

The latin vulgate?
 
The original would have been Greek with the Septuagint Old Testament and Greek New Testament books.

However, until there was the Vulgate there was no fixed canon and you could (within reason) choose what books to put in your Bible
 
The Vulgate, though possibly it has been improved in translation to match the Greek better but I’m not certain about that
 
The current Latin scriptures used by the Vatican is the Nova Vulgata, a revision of the Vulgate (with an eye toward modern textual and linguistic principles) begun early in the last century and promulgated in 1979.

Prior to the translation of St Jerome, there were multiple Latin versions, of varying completeness, canon, and quality, collectively referred to as *Vetus Latina *(“old Latin”, referring to its priority – The style was more Classical Latin than what linguists today classify as “Old Latin”).

I am not sure you could say it (and again: which?) was used by “the Vatican” because I am not sure you can say the Vatican existed much prior to Jerome’s translation.

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Thanks all,

but why is it still called the vulgate then? I know that there were two versions, one of the commoner and the original greek words.

The latin vulgate was a translation into a simpler form. Meaning, the cross translation from greek to latin would be?? the nova vulgata ?
 
Vugate basically means vulgar. The latin vulgate was called that because it was in the everyday latin spoken then, the common or “vulgar” language.

Just like in some other languages, there is the “high” dialect and the “low” or vulgar one. Ok, maybe that doesn’t make sense right now. When I was stationed in Germany we had to go through a “German head start.” It was learning some basic german to help us get around. One of the teachers said that there was the “proper,” or high, german and then the “low” or everyday german. I guess the same applies to latin.
 
The *vulgus *was a name for the common people. Among several sub-designations of the Latin Language are vulgar Latin (the common, everyday speech) and (more often taught in schools today), what is today called Classical Latin – A precise and composed form, used in many written works and speeches during approximately the century before and the century after Christ – But except when reading aloud or reciting a memorized piece, people probably didn’t speak that way so much.

In the same way, you or I would likely use different styles in writing a formal letter than in everyday conversation*. The *Nova *(new) *Vulgata *is so called, even though it is not not anyone’s common tongue, partly because it retains for the most part the grammar and vocabulary of vulgar Latin and because “Vulgate” has come to be synonymous with the Latin scriptures.

(* Indeed, I went through several revisions in composing this reply)

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