Jerome Bible Translations

Document:	Translation of the Pentateuch, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Esther according to the Hebrew
Reference:
Incipit:	Preface to Pentateuch: Desiderii mei Preface to Judges-Ruth: Tandem finita Pentateucho Preface to Ester: Librum Hester variis
Addressee:	Pentateuch: Desiderius Judges-Ruth: Eustochium Ester: Paula and Eustochium
Date:	completed 404-406
Earliest ms.:
Latin Text:	R. Weber and B. Gryson, eds., Biblia sacra: iuxta Vulgatam versionem (Stuttgart 1994). [text provided by Douay-Rheims Bible Online]
English Translation:	Preface to Pentateuch translated by K.P. Edgecomb: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_preface_genesis.htm Preface to Pentateuch translated by S. Rebenich, pp. 101-104. Preface to Pentateuch summarized in W.H. Fremantle, "Preface to Genesis" in NPNF², vol. 6 (New York, 1893), pp. 488-89. Preface to Joshua-Ruth translated by K.P. Edgecomb: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_preface_joshua.htm Preface to Joshua-Ruth summarized in W.H. Fremantle, "Preface to Joshua, Judges, Ruth" in NPNF², vol. 6 (New York, 1893), p. 489. Preface to Esther translated by K.P. Edgecomb: http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_preface_esther.htm Preface to Esther summarized in W.H. Fremantle, "Preface to Esther" in NPNF², vol. 6 (New York, 1893), p. 491.
Notes:	This was eventually incorporated into the Vulgate. Jerome, Notes on the Additions to Esther by K.P. Edgecomb