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  • 16 - JEROME AS BIBLICAL SCHOLAR

  • from V - THE BIBLE IN THE EARLY CHURCH
  • Edited by P. R. Ackroyd, C. F. Evans
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Bible
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    01 April 1970, pp 510-541

  • Summary

    Jerome was the greatest biblical scholar of the early Church. Jerome's own first 'little work' was a commentary on Obadiah. From Constantinople Paulinus and Jerome went on to Rome, together with Epiphanius, bishop of Salamis in Cyprus, to take part in the council held by Damasus in 382. Jerome lectured on scripture daily and wrote continuously. Didymus' treatise On the Holy Spirit was translated, as were also more of Origen's biblical homilies. Jerome started on a revision of the Old Latin Old Testament and became increasingly concerned to secure the best Septuagint texts obtainable on which to base it. The Hebraica veritas influenced Jerome in one direction namely, in his view of the extent of the Old Testament Canon. Jerome's major contribution as a biblical commentator was the series of commentaries on the Old Testament prophets who provided him with a practically unworked field.