Ross Clark
2024-09-30 09:48:21 UTC
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PermalinkIt's the feast day of St.Jerome, who's the patron not only of
translators and interpreters, but also "Bible scholars, archivists,
librarians, military linguists [?], encyclopedists and students." (Crystal)
Jerome's translations made up the standard Latin text of the Bible (the
Vulgate).
The UN has a St Jerome Translation Contest (2005-), for "the best
translations into Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish and
German".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome