He was the translator of the Vulgate version of the Bible. St. Jerome was born in Dalmatia around 340-342 AD. Having grown up a wealthy pagan, Jerome visited Rome at about 20 and was converted and ...
This Bible is commonly called the Vulgate, the common version. Even after a thousand years, Latin still remained the universal language in Europe. Translating the Bible into the vernacular ...
Due to its favoring of the Latin Vulgate Bible, the Roman Catholic Church maintains close ties to both the ancient Hebrew and Old Greek texts of the Old Testament. Jerome, the celebrated 4th ...
A survey of Greek history from Homer to the Hellenistic period, based primarily on a close reading of ancient sources in translation. The course covers the emergence of the polis in the Dark Age, ...