Jerome, Chronicle 181a-c
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Context
St. Jerome undertook ro write a universal history of the world early
in his illustrious career. His work translated and annotated the second half of
Eusebius’ work, finished over a half century earlier, which was organized into a
tabulated concordance of chronological schemes (χρονικοὶ κανόνες) ranging from Abraham
to Constantine I; he continued Eusebius in the same format with his own historical
compendium for the years 327-378 C.E. This passage from Jerome’s translation of Eusebius
covers the end of Claudius’ reign, including events in the governorship of Judaea, which
was headquartered in Caesarea, and in the life of St. Paul.
Text
Romanorum Judaeorum
CCVII Olymp(ias) VIIII (181a) Fame facta in Graecia modius sex drachmis V venundatus est X
(b) magna fames Romae VI XI (c) Claudius Felicem procuratorem Iudaeae mittit, VII aput quem
Paulus apostolus accusatus in defensionem XII sui perorat VIII
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Textual Note
Ed. Helm 1956Discussion Note
]Corrigenda Note
Minor corr.Translation
Year of the Romans Year
of the Jews 207th Olympiad [49 C.E.] 9 (181a) When there was a great famine in Greece, 5 one
bushel sold for six drachmas. [50 C.E.] 10 (b) Great famine at Rome. 6 [51 C.E.] 11 (c)
Claudius sends Felix to be procurator of Judaea. 7 [52 C.E.] Before him Paul the Apostle,
standing accused, gives 12 a speech in defense of himself. 8
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Translation Note
Trans. J. L. Rife with ref. to Pearse 2005Works Cited
- 1 Jerome, Eusebius Werke VII: Die Chronik des Hieronymus, ed. Rudolf Helm, Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte 47 (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1956), p: 181a-c.
- 2 Jerome, The Chronicle of St. Jerome: Machine Readable Text, trans. Roger Pearse (Ipswich, UK, 2005)
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Joseph L. Rife, “Jerome, Chronicle 181a-c,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/273.
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