RT Book T1 The letters of Jerome: asceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in Late Antiquity T2 The Oxford early Christian studies A1 Cain, Andrew 1976- LA English PP Oxford u.a. PB Oxford University Press YR 2010 ED Repr. UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/160363634X AB 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 NO Includes bibliographical references and index CN BR1720.J5 SN 9780199563555 K1 Jerome d. 419 or 20 : Correspondence K1 Jerome : Saint : d. 419 or 20 : Correspondence K1 Christian saints : Correspondence K1 Konferenzschrift