Jerome and the formation of the Bible
Research into Jerome's life, psychology, personal history, translation work, theological assumptions, and influence on the collection later received as the Bible.
Research
Questions first. Conclusions after study.
The Scattered Flock is built around research that asks how the Bible, church authority, translation, doctrine, and inherited religious structures came to take the forms people recognize today.
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Augustine and inherited doctrine
Study of Augustine's writings and the effect of his ideas on later Christian views of marriage, sexuality, violence, suffering, and authority.
Canon and curation
Questions about which writings were retained, which were left outside the canon, how collections developed, and who gained authority through those decisions.
Translation and context
Comparisons of key words, disputed passages, missing conversational context, punctuation choices, and the doctrinal effects of English translation.
A growing library
This section is intentionally designed to expand. Future articles can be added as separate HTML pages and linked here. Each article can contain notes, source lists, manuscript comparisons, translation tables, and longer explanations of the research summarized elsewhere on the site.
The aim is not to demand immediate agreement. It is to make room for questions people were often discouraged from asking inside institutional churches.