The letters of Jerome : asceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in late antiquity / Andrew Cain.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Cain, Andrew.

Series:

• Oxford early Christian studies.
• Oxford early Christian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420. Correspondence.
• Christian saints--Correspondence.

Physical Description:

xiv, 286 p.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Summary:

In life Jerome's authority was frequently questioned, yet following his death he was venerated as a saint. Andrew Cain systematically examines Jerome's idealized self-presentation across the extant epistolary corpus, exploring how and why Jerome used letter writing as a means to bid for status as an expert on the Bible and ascetic spirituality.

Contents:

• 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.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-272) and indexes.
• Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

• 9780191568411
• 0191568414
• 0-19-172125-5
• 9786612053467
• 1-282-05346-9
• 0-19-956355-1
• 0-19-156841-4

OCLC:

326881739