03193nam 2200565 a 450 991097197760332120251116153347.0978019156841101915684140-19-172125-597866120534671-282-05346-90-19-956355-10-19-156841-4(MiAaPQ)EBC7035774(CKB)24235091700041(MiAaPQ)EBC430709(Au-PeEL)EBL430709(CaPaEBR)ebr10288302(CaONFJC)MIL205346(OCoLC)326881739(Au-PeEL)EBL7035774(OCoLC)781287558(EXLCZ)992423509170004120081103d2009 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe letters of Jerome asceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in late antiquity /Andrew CainOxford ;New York Oxford University Press2009xiv, 286 pOxford early Christian studies9780199563555 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.Oxford early Christian studies.Christian saintsCorrespondenceChristian saints270.2092Cain Andrew476535MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971977603321The letters of Jerome4463237UNINA