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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807239203321

Autore

Rebenich Stefan

Titolo

Jerome / / Stefan Rebenich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-134-63843-4

0-585-45625-9

0-203-45682-3

1-280-31736-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Early church fathers

Classificazione

11.51

Disciplina

270.2

Soggetti

Christian saints

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Jerome; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Part I Introduction; 1 From Stridon to Aquileia: Between Career and Conversion; 2 Antioch and Chalcis: The Making of an Ascetic Champion; 3 Constantinople: The Formation of a Christian Writer; 4 Rome: High-Flying Hopes and Deep Fall; 5 Bethlehem (I): The Origenist Controversy; 6 Bethlehem (II): The Biblical Scholar; Part II Translations; 7 The Novelist: Letter 1 to lnnocentius; 8 The Theologian: Letter 15 to Damasus; 9 The Chronographer: Preface to the Chronicle of Eusebius; 10 The Epistolographer: Letter 31 to Eustochium

11 The Satirist: Letter 40 to Marcella concerning Onasus 12 The Biographer: The Life of Malchus the Captive Monk; 13 The Biblical Scholar: Preface to the Book of Hebrew Questions; 14 The Literary Historian: Lives of Famous Men; 15 The Translator: The Preface to the Vulgate version of the Pentateuch; 16 The Controversialist: A ainst Vigilantius; 17 The Threnodist: Letter 127 to Principia; 18 The Ascetic Expert: Letter 128 to Pacatula; Part III Bibliography; Jerome's Works; Secondary Literature; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book assembles a representative selection of Jerome's voluminous output. It will help readers to a balanced portrait of a brilliant and complex man who was a major intellectual force in the early church.