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