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

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Main Author: Cain, Andrew
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Series:Oxford early Christian studies.
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Table of 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.