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Literature & Philosophy~342 – 420

Vulgate Bible — translator, scholar, polemicist

The most learned Latin Father and translator of the Vulgate — the standard Bible of Western Christianity for over a thousand years.

Key works

  • Vulgate (Latin Bible translation)~382-405The Bible of the West for 1,000 years
  • Letters~370-420Over 150 letters — theology, invective, scholarship
  • De Viris Illustribus393Biographical dictionary of 135 Christian writers

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