Jerome was born at Stridon on the border of Dalmatia and studied in Rome, where he was baptized. After a spell as a hermit in the Syrian desert, where he learned Hebrew, he served as secretary to Pope Damasus, who asked him to revise the Latin Gospels.
From 386 until his death in 420 he lived in a monastery at Bethlehem, translating most of the Old Testament directly from the Hebrew and writing commentaries and a great many letters. Learned, devout and famously sharp-tongued, he quarrelled with several contemporaries, including his old friend Rufinus.
Jerome in the library (1 work)
- Jerome: Letters and Select Works — 1893
The letters of the Vulgate's translator — on Scripture, controversy, and the ascetic life — with prefaces to his biblical translations and select treatises.