The letters of Jerome
Subtitle: asceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in late antiquity
By: Andrew Cain.
Series: Oxford early Christian studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199563555
Subjects: Jerome, -- Saint, -- d. 419 or 20 -- Correspondence; Christian saints -- Correspondence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The voice of one calling in the desert; title: Epistularum ad diversos liber : structure and contents; title: Hieronymus eremita : the textualized saint; title: Rhetoric and reproach; title: An ascetic conversion story in letters; title: Introducing ... Jerome; title: A pope and his scholar; title: Jerome on Damasus on Jerome : revisionist reminiscences; title: The great commission; title: The correspondence : Hebrew verity and ambrosiaster; title: Claiming Marcella; title: Ad Marcellam epistularum liber : structure and contents; title: Hagiography, hermeneutics, Hebrew, and heretics; title: Sealing a spiritual and scholarly legacy; title: Expulsion from Rome; title: Theological controversy; title: The gathering storm : Blesilla's death; title: The beginning of the end; title: The disgrace of a false charge; title: Paula's seducer?; title: The case against Jerome : trial and conviction; title: Exile of a prophet; title: The embattled ascetic saga; title: Jerome's personal, theological, and ecclesiastical profiles; title: Jerome's spiritual advice; title: Legitimization; title: The exegetical letters; title: Remembering Fabiola, defending Hebrew verity; title: From Bethlehem to the furthest reaches of Gaul; title: Ep . 120 to Hedibia (Bordeaux); title: Ep . 121 to Algasia (Cahors?); title: Cultivated image.