The letters of Jerome: asceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in Late Antiquity
Introduction -- The voice of one calling in the desert -- Epistularum ad diversos liber : structure and contents -- Hieronymus eremita : the textualized saint -- Rhetoric and reproach -- An ascetic conversion story in letters -- Introducing ... Jerome -- A pope and his scholar -- Jerome on Damasus o...
| Summary: | Introduction -- The voice of one calling in the desert -- Epistularum ad diversos liber : structure and contents -- Hieronymus eremita : the textualized saint -- Rhetoric and reproach -- An ascetic conversion story in letters -- Introducing ... Jerome -- A pope and his scholar -- Jerome on Damasus on Jerome : revisionist reminiscences --The great commission --The correspondence : Hebrew verity and ambrosiaster -- Claiming Marcella -- Ad Marcellam epistularum liber : structure and contents -- Hagiography, hermeneutics, Hebrew, and heretics -- Sealing a spiritual and scholarly legacy -- Expulsion from Rome -- Theological controversy -- The gathering storm : Blesilla's death -- The beginning of the end -- The disgrace of a false charge -- Paula's seducer? -- The case against Jerome : trial and conviction -- Exile of a prophet -- The embattled ascetic saga -- Jerome's personal, theological, and ecclesiastical profiles -- Jerome's spiritual advice -- Legitimization -- The exegetical letters -- Remembering Fabiola, defending Hebrew verity -- From Bethlehem to the furthest reaches of Gaul -- Ep . 120 to Hedibia (Bordeaux) -- Ep . 121 to Algasia (Cahors?) -- Cultivated image |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0199563551 |