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The Old Latin (OL) translation of the Greek NT, which existed first in North Africa around Carthage, where Greek was not well known, in the 3rd century c.e. There was no one official version: Bishop Nemesianus of Tubanas, with Cyprian at the Council of Carthage in 256, used a Latin translation different from that used by Cyprian. While one translation might have been the basis, the great variety of readings in the extant manuscripts indicates that the Itala might have involved several independent translations.

Quotations in African church writers tend to be colloquial and unsophisticated, indicating that the OL was primarily for common people. The Itala usually follows the Greek rather literally, with European OL manuscripts not diverging from the Greek quite as much as African manuscripts. The textual character of the Itala is “Western.”

Old Latin manuscripts passed through Italy to Gaul, Great Britain, and Ireland, each region altering the text in view of its own special interests, thus producing provincial OL texts. While the Itala was officially superseded by the Vulgate of Jerome, it appears to have been copied and used to some extent until the 9th century.

Carroll D. Osburn

Prayer Tents Bible References - Prayer Tents

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Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)