What language was the Bible in before latin?

Most of the Hebrew Bible, what Christians call the Old Testament, was originally written in, get this, Hebrew. Parts of some of the later books are in Aramaic. It is possible that parts of the New Testament might be based on Aramaic originals, but the oldest texts we have are in Greek. Saint Jerome translated all this to Latin in around the year 382 to make the text we now call the Vulgate -- because Latin was the "vulgar tongue" of the western Roman Empire at that time. The Peshitta, a translation into Syriac (an Aramaic dialect) was probably done earlier, also from the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. Curiously, the Peshitta is in a language very close to the language of Jesus' time, yet its New Testament appears to be translated from the Greek and not from any older Aramaic versions of the text.