St. Jerome's Scholarly Revolution and the Genesis of the Vulgate

Jerome's studies of the Scriptures were revolutionary because, for the first time in Christian history, a scholar was engaging deeply with the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible rather than relying on the widely used Greek translation, the Septuagint. The Septuagint was the version of the Old Testament that had been translated into Greek centuries earlier, and it had become the standard for Christian worship and scripture. However, Jerome, influenced by his studies in the original language...