Jerome's commentaries on the Pauline epistles and the architecture of exegetical authority / Andrew Cain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cain, Andrew, author.

Series:

Oxford early Christian studies.

Oxford Early Christian Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Epistles of Paul--Commentaries--History.

Bible.

Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420. Epistola ad Paulinum presbyterum.

Jerome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (303 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

This monograph provides the first book-length treatment of Jerome's opus Paulinum in any language.

Contents:

Introduction

1: A Choice of Epistles

The Commentaries: Circumstances of Composition

Philemon: Canonicity, Apostolicity, and Utility

Galatians: Law and Gospel and Hebrew Philology

Ephesians: Divine Mysteries Galore

Titus: Canonicity and Clerical Morals

2: The Prefaces: Patronage, Polemic, and Apology

The Art of the Preface

Destination: Rome

Adgrediar opus intemptatum: Jerome contra Marius Victorinus

Negotiating Crisis

3: Ad fontes: Greek and Hebrew Philology

Graeca veritas and the Vetus Latina

Hebraica veritas and the Septuagint

4: The Ascetic Apostle

Meditatio Scripturarum and the Ascetic Life

Championing Chastity

Toward a Monastic Clergy

Hieronymus haereticus

5: Orthodoxy and Heresy

Heretics as the Pernicious "Other"

Marcion and the Unity of Scripture

Christology

The Doctrine of Fixed Natures

6: In Origen's Footsteps: Greek Sources

Commentary on Galatians

Commentary on Ephesians

Commentary on Philemon

Commentary on Titus

A Variorum Approach

7: Between East and West: Latin Sources

Classical Literature

Tertullian

Cyprian

Lactantius

Conclusion

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-266291-0

0-19-193960-9

0-19-266290-2

OCLC:

1272990162