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Jerome of Stridon His Life, Writings and Legacy
298 Pages
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Routledge
298 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book assembles eighteen studies by internationally renowned scholars that epitomize the latest and best advances in research on the greatest polymath in Latin Christian antiquity, Jerome of Stridon (c.346-420) traditionally known as "Saint Jerome." It is divided into three sections which explore topics such as the underlying motivations behind Jerome's work as a hagiographer, letter-writer,... Read more
Introduction; I: Hagiography, Letters, Heresy, and the Man; 1: Inventing an Ascetic Hero: Jerome's Life of Paul the First Hermit; 2: Sur Trois Lettres Méconnues de Jérôme Concernant Son Séjour à Rome (382–385) 1; 3: Tertullian in Jerome's Consolation to Heliodorus (Ep. 60); 4: Rethinking Jerome's Portraits of Holy Women; 5: Le Dialogus Attici et Critobuli de Jérôme et la Prédication Pélagienne en Palestine entre 411 et 415; 6: Jerome on Jeremiah: Exegesis and Recovery; II: The Science of Scripture: Philology, Exegesis, and Translation; 7: Jerome, Tobit, Alms, and the Vita Aeterna 1; 8: La Figure des Deux Larrons chez Jérôme; 9: The Rabbinic Vulgate?; 10: How Should We Measure Jerome's Hebrew Competence?; 11: Jerome Keeping Silent: Origen and his Exegesis of Isaiah; 12: L'In Zachariam de Jérôme et la Tradition Alexandrine; 13: The Significance of Jerome's Commentary on Galatians in his Exegetical Production; III: Reception: Fifth through Sixteenth Centuries; 14: The Raven Replies: Ambrose's Letter to the Church at Vercelli (Ep.ex.coll. 14) and the Criticisms of Jerome; 15: The Use and Misuse of Jerome in Gaul during Late Antiquity; 16: Vir Quadrilinguis? Syriac in Jerome and Jerome in Syriac; 17: Jerome and the Jeromanesque; 18: Martin Luther's Jerome: New Evidence for a Changing Attitude
Biography
Andrew Cain is Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Colorado, USA. Josef Lössl is Reader in Patristics and Late Antiquity, and Director, Centre for Late Antique Religion and Culture, School of Religious and Theological Studies, Cardiff University, UK.
’... the latest in an ongoing tradition of conference proceedings on Jerome; it forms an admirably compelling addition to this tradition and will doubtless exert a strong influence over subsequent work.’ Journal of Theological Studies
