380 CE: THE EASTERN CHURCH FATHERS PILE–ON

Vitriolic slander and demonizations of the (minority) Jews ratchet–up significantly via Christian luminaries and would be luminaries, across the Roman Empire, as Christianity is now “official.”

The book, Holy Hatred, p. 20, by Robert Michael, notes–

“Christian writings were part of a theological war to the death, and beyond. Although several Church Fathers knew individual Jews, they portrayed Jews as satanic adversaries. They imagined that Jews insulted Christ and the Blessed Virgin each day in their synagogue prayers. For these crimes, Christian theologians argued, Jews must suffer continual punishment on earth and eternal damnation in the afterlife, unless they sought salvation through the one true faith, Christianity. They proclaimed that the Jews are, have always been, and will always be, paragons of evil.

Christian theologians depicted the Jews as hateful to make Judaism repulsive to the Christian faithful or pagans. The stubborn persistence of Judaism and Jews constantly questioned Christian claims of earthly and spiritual triumph.”

382 CE: VULGATE

–Latin translation of the Bible (directly from the Hebrew) commissioned by Pope Damasus I.

Completed early in the 400s largely due to the efforts of Church Father Jerome.

The Vulgate became the official Bible (translation) of the Roman Catholic Church.