Timothy Dooley

I am primarily concerned with the impact of St. Jerome and his influential incorporation of 'pagan' literature in the development of early Christian academia. I am interested in the formation of Scripture canon, especially Jerome's Vulgate, and seek not only to understand the prestige the Vulgate had through the Council of Trent but the story of the document's creation. 

I am generally interested in Patristics and Neo-Platonism. I study both the Latin and Greek Fathers and have developed a recent interest in Marcion, Tertullian, and Iranaeus. I have previously written on Eusebius of Caesarea, Origen, and Augustine's relationship with Jerome. 

Classical influences and their vectors in Christianity are of particular interest, from Hellenistic Philosophy to Early Imperial and Silver Age Latin. 

I find that the story of a translation can reveal more than the words it presents. For this reason, I am interested in the history of Early Christian Philology and translation. Jerome and his extensive work in trilingual translation provides an excellent subject for this study.