03629nam 2200601 a 450 991046513860332120200520144314.01-282-05346-90-19-156841-49786612053467(CKB)2560000000300864(EBL)430709(OCoLC)326881739(SSID)ssj0000087990(PQKBManifestationID)11395624(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000087990(PQKBWorkID)10071451(PQKB)10351998(StDuBDS)EDZ0000074625(MiAaPQ)EBC430709(Au-PeEL)EBL430709(CaPaEBR)ebr10288302(CaONFJC)MIL205346(EXLCZ)99256000000030086420081103d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe letters of Jerome[electronic resource] asceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in late antiquity /Andrew CainOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (301 p.)Oxford early Christian studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-956355-1 0-19-172125-5 Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-272) and indexes.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.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. - ;In the centuries following his death, Jerome (c.347-420) was venerated as a saint and as one of the four Doctors of the Latin church. In his own lifetime, however, he was a severely marginalized figure whose intellectual and spiritual authority did nOxford early Christian studies.Christian saintsCorrespondenceElectronic books.Christian saints270.2092Cain Andrew476535MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465138603321The letters of Jerome2457169UNINA