ABSTRACT
St Jerome, in many quarters ‘the greatest doctor of the church’, is chiefly remem-bered as one of the most forceful personalities and one of the most important interpreters of the Bible in the early centuries of Christianity. Jerome was probably born sometime in the early 340s ce in the town of Stridon, in Dalmatia, modern Yugoslavia. He died in 420, renowned for his exegetical activity and for living a holy and ascetic life.
