Hebraica Veritas Versus Septuaginta Auctoritatem: Does a Canonical Text of the Old Testament Exist? - Paperbackby Ignacio Carbajosa (Author), Paul Stevenson (Translator), Adrian Schenker (Foreword by) At the end of the fourth century, Jerome decided to translate the Old Testament into Latin from the Hebrew manuscripts that were available to him, and not from the "traditional" Greek text. This fact provoked a reaction from Augustine, who considered that the Greek translation of the LXX must be the starting point of every translation, since it had the authority