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What was the purpose of St. Jerome’s Book of Places?

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José de Ribera: Saint Jerome — St. Jerome *Saint Jerome*, oil on canvas by José de Ribera (Jusepe de Ribera, Lo Spagnoletto), c. 1638–40; in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art.

St. Jerome’s Liber locorum (“Book of Places”) served as a helpful introductory resource for biblical scholars. It was a translation and adaptation of the work by the church historian Eusebius concerning Palestinian place-names.1