Thesiss

St. Jerome wrote his Vulgate translation from the Hebrew under considerable duress. Early Church figures such as Justin Martyr, Pseudo-Justin, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Eusebius of Caesarea, Cyril of Jerusalem, John Chrysostom, Theodore of Mopsuestia, Epiphani…

Despite the important role played by St. Jerome (331–420) in the history of translation, his own translations have suffered some neglect when it comes to detailed investigations of his theory and praxis. In particular, the distinction he espoused between his ordinary sense-for-s…