Jerome and the Jews

by William L Krewson

Book Overview

Jerome rocked the boat in which the early church had been comfortably settled for two hundred years. He upset Christian tradition by arguing for the priority of the Hebrew Old Testament over the supposedly inspired Greek Septuagint. He learned Hebrew from a Jewish teacher and translated the Old Testament directly from Hebrew into Latin. Not only did his new Latin translation create turmoil, but the inclusion of Jewish interpretations in his commentaries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498218245
• ISBN13: 9781498218245
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"