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Sep 30, 2024 · El Greco depicts him as pointing to the Bible whose translation, of course, is St. Jerome’s greatest achievement. As the Met’s commentary notes, however, El Greco manages to incorporate St. Jerome’s asceticism into the painting by “his gaunt features and long white beard.”.
Sep 27, 2024 · St. Jerome’s legacy as the translator of the Bible and a fierce defender of Scripture endures to this day. His monumental achievement in translating the Bible into Latin made the Word of God accessible to millions, shaping Christian thought and devotion for centuries.
Aug 10, 2021 · Coming in November: The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century. Bloomsbury Publishing will be releasing a new, fully-revised edition of the Jerome Biblical Commentary on November 18th. This will be the third revision of the commentary, which was originally published in 1968.
Jerome translated the Hebrew Bible into Latin over a decade and a half beginning in about 390 c.e. With each translation he included a preface dedicating (in most cases) the translation to a friend or patron and defending his reliance on what he called the hebraica veritas (Hebrew truth) against his many detractors.
The Jerome Biblical Commentary is a series of books of Biblical scholarship, whose first edition was published in 1968. It is arguably the most-used volume of Catholic scriptural commentary in the United States.
- Raymond Edward Brown, Roland Edmund Murphy, Joseph A. Fitzmyer
- 1968
Jerome is remembered primarily for his translation of the Bible into Latin under the patronage of Damasus (304-384), the bishop of Rome (366-384). Jerome's knowledge of Hebrew and extensive classical education made him the ideal man for the task.
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May 5, 2013 · Jerome's place in the history of the Bible is based primarily on his role in the creation of the Vulgate, the standard edition of the Bible in its Latin form. A distinctive component of the biblical scholarship of Jerome is his ability to appreciate the literary quality of the scriptures.
