Saint Jerome Creates the Vulgate
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- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Religion, Ethics
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Christianity, Christians, Churches, Theology, Theologians, Catholic Church, Catholics, Saints, Prophets
- Curriculum: Middle Eastern History, Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: Palestine
- Date: c. 382-c. 405
Article abstract: Jerome, an influential Christian scholar whose life blended several ideals of late antique Christendom, created a Latin translation of the Old Testament and Gospels, which along with translations of the remaining New Testament books by other scholars, became known as the Vulgate and remained the standard translation of the Bible until the sixteenth century.
Summary of Event
By Saint Jerome’s death, the Roman world in its former glory had come unraveled, and so had Jerome. His life’s pursuit of holiness and spiritual perfection was...
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