Was the Latin Vulgate the only Bible to survive until our time?

Answer 1

Not by any means. There are many ancient Hebrew and Greek manuscripts that predate the Vulgate that have survived. The Vulgate is a 5th century Latin translation of Hebrew and Greek texts available to Jerome. Since that time many more ancient manuscripts have been discovered.

Answer 2

We have three versions that are much older and copies of a 4th:

Masoretic text (Babylonian OT)
Septuagint (Palestinian OT)
Samaritan text

The fourth comes from the Dead Sea Scrolls. It appears that the scribes tried to bridge the Mas and Sept.

All four of these are much older than the Latin, which I think is actually based on the Septuagint.

We have reason to believe that parts of the OT are based on the original manuscripts. Whoever wrote I Chronicles (c300 BC) seems to have been copying from very old scrolls, and based on the odd places where the lists of names started and stopped, the genealogy scrolls could have been originals that were as much as 1200 years old at that time.

That would mean that, using the Masoretic Text, we are only 2 copies removed from the original scrolls in some places.

Answer 3

The Codex Vaticanus, Codex Siniaticus, and Codex Alexandrinus are 3 Greek Bibles that exist today. They date from the 4th century.
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Answer 4

the original bible was in Hebrew,Greek,and Aramaic.
The old testament was written on scrolls (some) thousands of
of years before Catholicism was thought of.The dead sea scrolls were buried before Catholicism could have written them.

Answer 5

There are many versions that have survived until our time--One in particular--King James Version 1611.