Eusebius Hieronymus, called Jerome (c 342 -420) was commissioned by Pope Damasus to begin translating the New Testament from Greek into Latin. He continued the task after Damasus' death and began the translation of the Old Testament from both Greek and Hebrew, completing this by the year 404. This was the Vulgate or "common" Latin Bible of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Jerome, who is described as "the best Hebrew scholar" of the early church and who completed the Latin Vulgate in 405 C.E., took a definite stand against such Apocryphal books and was the first, in fact, to use the word "Apocrypha" explicitly in the sense of noncanonical as referring to these writing
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Saint Jerome was an ancient priest, who lived from 347 to 420. He became famous for his theological and historical writings. He is probably best known for translating the Bible into Latin.
Saint Jerome translated The Bible.
Two contributions made by Saint Jerome were translating the Bible and making monasteries for refuge for people who left their homes and came to the Holy Land while Italy was under attack from the nomadic tribes.
Saint Jerome
Saint Jerome was a Christian scholar and theologian known for translating the Bible into Latin from its original Hebrew and Greek manuscripts. The New Testament is the second part of the Christian Bible, which includes the teachings and life of Jesus Christ, as well as the early Christian church's writings. Jerome's translation of the Bible, known as the Vulgate, became the standard Latin version used in the Catholic Church for centuries.
Vulgate is a Latin translation of the Bible by Saint Jerome.
Saint Jerome translated the Bible to Latin so that is could be more widely used and read.
In his painting of St. Jerome and the Angel, Simon Vouet a master portraitist, captured the Saint in a rather disconcerted state. St. Jerome's facial expression seems to suggest that he may be slightly frustrated by the immense task of translating the Hebrew and Greek transcripts that would form the Bible. The Angel appears to be calming St. Jerome and the skull on the table is an indicator of St. Jerome's position as a (Latin) Doctor of the Church.
This was done by Saint Jerome.
Saint Jerome was a Christian scholar and theologian who is best known for his translation of the Bible into Latin, known as the Vulgate, which became the definitive version of the Bible for centuries. He also wrote extensively on theology, biblical commentary, and asceticism, and is considered a Doctor of the Church for his contributions to Christian scholarship.
Saint Jerome was a Catholic priest, he also became a Doctor of the Church. His greatest work in his life was the translation of the Bible into Latin.
It is believed that St. Jerome made a similar statement, "ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ." St. Jerome was a prominent early Christian theologian known for his translations of the Bible into Latin.