Questions tagged [jerome]
3rd/4th century priest and theologian, and translator of the Vulgate
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In the original editions of the Vulgate, were the apocryphal books separated?
In doing research primarily online, I have been seeing conflicting claims about how deuterocanonical books were inserted into the Vulgate by Jerome.
Some say that in the original manuscripts of the ...
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How did St. Jerome defend the Blessed Virgin's virginity 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘮 in light of Matt. 1:25?
How did St. Jerome defend the Blessed Virgin's virginity post partum in light of Matt. 1:25, which says St. Joseph "knew her not till she brought forth her firstborn son"?
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Why didn't Martin Luther like St. Jerome
In the "Bondage of the Will", Luther mentions St.Jerome, no more or less than 27 times. Having some snarky comments to say about him like: "Jerome is cast in my teeth; a man, (to say no ...
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Why did St. Jerome place Peter's letters after James's letter if Peter was the leader of the apostles and the church?
The Catholic Church believes Peter to be the leader of the apostles. Also, by the time that Pope Damasus I commissioned St. Jerome with the Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible (AD 382), the papacy ...
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What did the earliest version of the Vulgate bible look like?
It seems that the Codex Amiatinus is the oldest most complete version of the Vulgate bible (which misses the Book of Baruch). What did it look like?
Looking up close at the blurry images, the text ...
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Where did St. Jerome say this quote about the manger of the nativity?
I have seen on multiple websites, mostly websites about seeing the Holy Land or otherwise pilgrimage-focused sites, that St. Jerome said:
If I could only see that manger in which the Lord lay! Now, ...
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Did Jerome’s doctrine of Mariology affect his translation?
In a recent Q&A on Hermeneutics.SE, I made an arguement that carried the implication that Jerome's translation of κεχαριτωμένη ('favored one’)† as gratia plena ('full of grace’)† in Luke 1:28 was ...
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What was Jerome's defense for translating the Hebrew word קִיקָיוֹן (kikayon) in Jonah 4:6, etc. into Latin as hedera?
In the Vulgate translation of Jonah 4:6–7, 4:9–10, Jerome translated the Hebrew word קִיקָיוֹן (kikayon) into Latin as hedera, which is the equivalent of the English word "ivy."
Some, including ...
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How did Augustine of Hippo feel about Jerome's Latin translation of the Bible (the Vulgate)?
Augustine and Jerome wrote several epistles to one another. In these epistles, how did Augustine feel about Jerome producing the Latin Vulgate? What were his concerns?
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