Jerome

De viris illustribus (On Illustrious Men) is a collection of short biographies of 135 authors, written in Latin, by the 4th century Illyrian author Jerome.^[1]. He says that he wrote this work at Bethlehem in 392.^[2] The work consists of 135 chapters, each consisting of a brief biography. Jerome himself is the subject of the final chapter as Chapter 135. A Greek version of the book, possibly by the same Sophronius who is the subject of Chapter 134, also survives. Many biographies take as their subject figures important in Christian Church history and pay especial attention to their careers as writers. It "was written as an apologetic work to prove that the Church had produced learned men."^[3] Sir Thomas Malory wrote the most famous fictional biography of the Middle Ages with Le Morte dArthur about the life of King Arthur. ... Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Illyria Illyria (disambiguation) Illyria (Anc. ... “Saint Jerome” redirects here. ... Central Bethlehem Bethlehem (Arabic بيت لحم   house of meat; Standard Hebrew בית לחם house of bread, Bet léḥem / Bet láḥem; Tiberian Hebrew Bêṯ léḥem / Bêṯ lāḥem; Greek: Βηθλεέμ) is a city in the Bethlehem Governorate of the West Bank under Palestinian Authority considered a central hub of Palestinian cultural and tourism... This article outlines the history of Christianity and provides links to relevant topics. ...

Contents

Listed below are the subjects of Jerome's 135 biographies. The numbers given are the chapter numbers found in editions. This is an article on biographies. ...

Saint Peter, also known as Simon ben Jonah/BarJonah, Simon Peter, Cephas and Kepha — original name Simon or Simeon (Acts 15:14) — was one of the Twelve Apostles whom Jesus chose as his original disciples. ... Saint James the Just (יעקב Holder of the heel; supplanter; Standard Hebrew YaÊ¿aqov, Tiberian Hebrew Yaʿăqōḇ), also called James Adelphos, James of Jerusalem, or the Brother of the Lord[1] and sometimes identified with James the Less, (died AD 62) was an important figure in Early Christianity. ... Matthew the Evangelist (מתי, Gift of the LORD, Standard Hebrew and Tiberian Hebrew: Mattay; Septuagint Greek: Μαθθαιος, Matthaios) is an important Christian figure best known as one of Jesus Twelve Apostles. ... For other uses, see Saint Jude (disambiguation). ... Paul of Tarsus (b. ... Barnabas was an early Christian mentioned in the New Testament. ... Luke the Evangelist (לוקא, Greek: Loukas) is said by tradition to be the author of both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, the third and fifth books of the New Testament. ... Mark the Evangelist (מרקוס, Greek: Μάρκος) (1st century) is traditionally believed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark and a companion of Peter. ... Look up John, john in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Shepherd of Hermas is a Christian work of the first or second century which had great authority in ancient times and was considered by some as one of the books of the Bible. ... Philo (20 BCE - 40 CE), known also as Philo of Alexandria and as Philo Judeaus, was a Hellenized Jewish philosopher born in Alexandria, Egypt. ... Bust, traditionally thought to be Seneca, now identified by some as Hesiod. ... A representation of Flavius Josephus, a woodcutting in John C. Winstons translation of his works Josephus (37 – shortly after 100 AD/CE)[1], who became known, in his capacity as a Roman citizen, as Flavius Josephus[2], was a 1st-century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and royal... Justus of Tiberias was a Jewish author and historian living in the second half of the 1st century AD. Little is known about his life. ... Pope Clement I, the bishop of Rome also called Clement of Rome and Clemens Romanus, is considered to be the fourth pope, after Anacletus, according to the Roman Catholic tradition. ... Icon of Ignatius being eaten by lions St. ... Saint Polycarp of Smyrna (martyred in his 87th year, ca. ... Papias (working in the 1st half of the 2nd century) was one of the early leaders of the Christian church, canonized as a saint. ... Quadratus of Athens was a Christian apologist who presented his defense of Christianity to Hadrian (ruled 117 - 138) while the emperor was in Athens being initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries. ... Origen (Greek: ÅŒrigénÄ“s, 185–ca. ... Felix Marcus Minucius was one of the earliest if not the earliest, of the Latin apologists for Christianity. ... Pamphilus, presbyter of Caesarea (late 3rd century – martyred February 409), chief among Biblical scholars of his generation, was the friend and teacher of Eusebius, who recorded details of his career in a three-book Vita that has been lost. ... Eusebius of Caesarea Eusebius of Caesarea (c. ... The Church Father and Saint Methodius of Olympus (? – c. ... Hilarius or Hilary (c. ... Pope Damasus I ( 305-383) was Pope from 366. ...

Jerome's account of his own literary career

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After giving his biographies of the 134 other subjects, Jerome gives an account in his final chapter of his own literary career. He lists among his works: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... “Saint Jerome” redirects here. ...

• Life of Paul the monk
• one book of Letters to different persons
• an Exhortation to Heliodorus
• Controversy of Luciferianus and Orthodoxus
• a chronicle of universal history with 28 homilies of Origen on Jeremiah and Ezekiel, which he translated Greek to Latin
• On the Seraphim
• On Osanna
• On the prudent and the prodigal sons
• three questions of ancient law
• Homilies on the Song of Songs two
• Against Helvidius
• On the perpetual virginity of Mary
• To Eustochius on maintaining of virginity, one book of formal letters of instructions to Marcella
• a consolatory letter to Paula On the death of a daughter
• three books commentaries on instructional letters of Paul to the Galatians, likewise three books commentaries on moral instructions to the Ephesians
• On the epistle to Titus one book
• On the epistle to Philemon one book
• Commentaries on Ecclesiastes]
• one book of Hebrew questions on Genesis
• one book On places in Judea
• one book Hebrew names
• A pair on the Holy Spirit
• one book into Latin of 39 homilies on Luke
• Psalms 10 to 16
• seven books on the captive Monk
• Life of a blessed Hilarion

Jerome explains in this last chapter of 135 about himself that he also translated the New Testament from the Greek and the Old Testament from Hebrew into Latin. In addition he says on how many Letters he wrote To Paula and Eustochium he did not know for he wrote daily. Additionally he says he wrote two books of explanations on Micah, one book on Nahum, two books On Habakkuk, one on Zephaniah, one on Haggai and many others on the prophets. Jerome further explains he is a student of Eusebius, from Strido, which is on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia that was taken by the Goths. He explains the present year is the fourteenth of the reign of Theodosius I, being the year 393 (last year of the Ancient Olympic Games). Jerome was from southern Europe and in his mid-forties when he wrote the above. He wrote exclusively in the common Latin language of that from the Latium region of Rome. The word Hebrew most likely means to cross over, referring to the Semitic people crossing over the Euphrates River. ... Saint Jerome, Saint Paula, and Saint Eustochium, by Francisco de Zurbarán Saint Paula (347-404) is the patron saint of widows. ... Micah or Micha (מִיכָה, Standard Hebrew Miḫa, Tiberian Hebrew Mîḵāh) is the name of several people in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament). ... Nahum (נחום) was a minor prophet whose prophecy is recorded in the Hebrew Bible. ... Habakkuk or Havakuk (חֲבַקּוּק, Standard Hebrew Ḥavaqquq, Tiberian Hebrew Ḥăḇaqqûq) was a prophet in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. ... Zephaniah or Tzfanya (צְפַנְיָה Concealed of/is the LORD, Standard Hebrew Ẓəfanya, Tiberian Hebrew ṢəpÌ„anyāh) is the name of several people in the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. ... Eusebius is the name of several significant historical people: Pope Eusebius - Pope in AD 309 - 310. ... Map of Dalmatia, in present day Croatia highlighted Dalmatia (Croatian: Dalmacija, Italian: Dalmazia) is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, in modern Croatia, spreading between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Gulf of Kotor (Boka Kotorska) in the southeast. ... Position of the Roman province of Pannonia Pannonia is an ancient country bounded north and east by the Danube, conterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia. ... Invasion of the Goths: a late 19th century painting by O. Fritsche, is a highly romanticized portrait of the Goths as cavalrymen. ... An engraving depicting what Theodosius may have looked like, ca. ... Ruins of the training grounds at Olympia // her myth tells of the hero Hercules, who won a race at Olympia and then decreed that the race should be re-enacted every four years, while another claims that Zeus had instated the festival after his defeat of the Titan Cronus. ... Southern Europe is a region of the European continent. ... Vulgar Latin, as in this political graffiti at Pompeii, was the way that ordinary people of the Roman Empire spoke, which was different from the Classical Latin used by the Roman elite. ... Latium (Lazio in Italian) is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzo, Marche, Molise, Campania and the Tyrrhenian Sea. ...

References

1. ^ Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religion
2. ^ Life of Tertullian from Jerome's De Viris Illustribus
3. ^ Louis Saltet, "St. Jerome," Catholic Encyclopedia, New York: 1910.

• The Catholic Encyclopedia, Published 1910 in New York by Robert Appleton Company.
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopedia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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Original text and translations

• Jerome's De Viris Illustribus: original Latin text (includes an informative introduction, in Latin)
• Jerome's De Viris Illustribus: English translation
• Jerome's De Viris Illustribus: early Greek version

External links

• Early African Apologists
• External Evidence: Jerome
• Jerome's De Viris Illustribus of Matthew, Mark, Luke
• Catholic Encylopedia: Gennadius of Marseilles (continuator of Jerome's De viris illustribus)
• A Manuscript of Jerome's De Viris Illustribus Belonging to the General Theological Seminary in New York