The Christian Bible consists of two sections. The first incorporates Jewish scripture originally written in Hebrew, characterised by Christians as the Old Testament. The earliest Christians adopted a Greek version of this text known as the Septuagint. The second section is a collection of texts concerning the life, teachings and early followers of Jesus of Nazareth, all originally written in Greek and together known as the New Testament. As Christianity spread and handwritten copies of the Christian scriptures multiplied, the Bible was translated into vernacular languages, including Syriac, Coptic, Ethiopian and Armenian. In Western Europe, translations of the Bible into Latin produced by the scholar Jerome (d. 420 CE) became the standard translation for over a thousand years. Known as the Vulgate, or common, version, this text was used in the earliest large-scale work printed in Europe using movable type. In the Middle Ages most Christian biblical manuscripts were selections of books instead of complete Bibles; Gospel-books and Psalters (the book of the psalms) were especially common.