c. 383 CE: (SAINT) JEROME LEAVES FOR PALESTINE

He leaves Rome for Palestine and begins translation of the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate). From 385 to 420 CE he lives in Bethlehem and takes an active part in religious controversies and in the development of monasticism in Palestine, mainly in the Judean desert.

c. 400 CE (Saint) Jerome (374–419 CE), Catholic Saint (the patron of Catholic theological learning) and Doctor of the Church, joins the newly emboldened Jew-baiters,
demonizing via public diatribe:

“Judaic serpents of whom Judas was the model”

Jerome commissioned the “horned Moses” statue, as well (exhibit later).

387 CE: ADVERSUS JUDAEOS SERMONS
–by (SAINT) JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

“Against the Judaizers”: Eight homilies by Chrysostom, The homilies are quite virulently anti–Semitic.

The Eastern Orthodox Church honors him as a saint and counts him among the Three Holy Hierarchs. The Roman Catholic Church regards him as a saint and as a “Doctor of the Church” (see exhibit for sample excerpts).

According to James Carroll in Constantine’s Sword, p. 191:

“Chrysostom, (c. 349–407), the bishop of Antioch, still revered as the patron saint of preachers, was the master of the sermon genre known as Adversus Judaeos. Such words inevitably led to actions: assaults on synagogues, the exclusion of Jews from public office, expulsions.”