Jeromu

Mt. Jeromu alivyochorwa na Caravaggio.

Jeromu au Yeronimo (347-420) alikuwa padri, mmonaki na mtaalamu wa Biblia, aliyemudu vizuri lugha zote za Biblia pamoja na Kilatini.

Anaheshimiwa kama mtakatifu, babu wa Kanisa na mwalimu wa Kanisa.

Sikukuu yake inaadhimishwa kila tarehe 30 Septemba.

Maisha

Alizaliwa mwaka 347 huko Strido, sehemu za Dalmazia (leo Korasya).

Alisomea Roma, mwaka 379 kisha kupewa upadri na askofu Paulino wa Antiokia alikwenda Konstantinopoli alipokamilisha ujuzi wake wa lugha ya Kigiriki chini ya Gregori wa Nazianzo.

Baada ya kuishi kama mmonaki miaka 3 akarudi Roma (382), alipoteuliwa na Papa Damaso I kuwa karani wake.

Baada ya papa huyo kufa, upinzani dhidi yake ulizidi, akahamia Mashariki ya Kati, alipoanzisha monasteri kadhaa za kike na za kiume akaishi katika mojawapo hadi kufa (420).

'Vulgata'

Vulgata, tafsiri ya kwanza ya Biblia ya Kikristo katika Kilatini ndiyo kazi yake muhimu zaidi. Aliianza kwa agizo la papa Damaso I mwaka 382, akaimaliza baada ya miaka 23. Tafsiri hiyo ilitumika kama msingi wa tafsiri nyingine nyingi hadi karne ya 20.

Vyanzo

• J.N.D. Kelly, "Jerome: His Life, Writings, and Controversies" (Peabody, MA 1998)
• S. Rebenich, "Jerome" (London and New York, 2002)

Viungo vya nje

• "St. Jerome" by Louis Saltet, in The Catholic Encyclopedia (1910)
• Jewish Encyclopedia: Jerome
• St. Jerome - Catholic Online
• The Story of St. Jerome and the Lion
• St Jerome (Hieronymus) of Stridonium Orthodox synaxarion

Maandishi kwa Kilatini

• Maandishi yake yote katika Patrologia Latina ya Migne pamoja na faharasa
• Chronological list of Jerome's Works with modern editions and translations cited
• Opera Omnia (Complete Works) from Migne edition (Patrologia Latina, 1844-1855) with analytical indexes, almost complete online edition

Google Books' Facsimiles

• Migne volume 23 part 1 (1883 edition)
• Migne volume 23 part 2 (1883 edition)
• Migne volume 24 (1845 edition)
• Migne volume 25 part 1 (1884 edition)
• Migne volume 25 part 2 (1884 edition)
• Migne volume 28 (1890 edition?)
• Migne volume 30 (1865 edition)

Tafsiri za Kiingereza

• English translations of Biblical Prefaces, Commentary on Daniel, Chronicle, and Letter 120 (tertullian.org)
• Jerome's Letter to Pope Damasus: Preface to the Gospels
• English translation of Jerome's De Viris Illustribus
• The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary
• Lives of Famous Men (CCEL)
• Apology Against Rufinus (CCEL)
• Letters, The Life of Paulus the First Hermit, The Life of S. Hilarion, The Life of Malchus, the Captive Monk, The Dialogue Against the Luciferians, The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary, Against Jovinianus, Against Vigilantius, To Pammachius against John of Jerusalem, Against the Pelagians, Prefaces (CCEL)