The PigPen's Resplendent Kaffeeklatsch

[RiverNotch]

So far as I know individual books of both the Greek and the Latin can be older, and the Latin manuscripts made before the Vulgate are all demonstrably translations of the Greek rather than the proto-Masoretic---St. Jerome's translation work was more or less a revision. Then there's the New Testament, which was demonstrably written in Greek, not in Latin, so much of it more or less quotes the Greek than the Latin (I believe only the Johannine books quote the proto-Masoretic slightly more than the Greek---but, again, they never outright quote the Latin). And then there's just the matter of trusting the historical record, where we just know the Greek is older than the Vulgate by at least five hundred years, as they are claimed to have been made during the time of the Ptolemies, while St. Jerome definitely lived after the Emperor Constantine.