Speaker 2
you tell me what you've said pseudopigrypha yeah I don't I mean I pseudo I understand what that means I know what a pig is but I something tells me I've gotten
Speaker 1
that wrong so pseudopigrypha means false writings and the idea is that these are these are texts that were written in the name of some famous or significant figure from ancient Jewish or or Christian history but that was clearly written well after that time period and so was not written by that historical figure
Speaker 2
such as but for some reason we're not applying that word to Matthew Mark yeah well that
Speaker 1
that's the tyranny of tradition because those things get into the the canon and they're kind of the heart the beating heart of the Christian canon and so pseudopigrypha is as a name that came along much later as scholars were looking at other non canonical stuff so you had that tyranny of tradition but many scholars today think maybe words like canonical and non canonical are problematic in and of themselves they give these texts pride of place in many discussions that about periods that predated their canonization and so that can be problematic as well interesting so if we if we move then into the period following the canonization of the Bible so in the fourth and fifth centuries we already have other translations that are taking place within early Christianity we have the translation of the Bible into Latin and this takes place first I believe around the third century they call that the there's an early Latin translation the Vulgate so the Vulgate is the secondary translation there there are manuscripts of Latin translations that were in circulation for a century before we get to the Vulgate but the Vulgate was translated at the very end up to around 400 CE by a man named Jerome and you can go visit the cave in Bethlehem where he spent 30 years translating his Vulgate but this was
Speaker 2
a trans dudes in their caves caves
Speaker 1
were a big deal back then I gotta get