LEADER 03629nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910465138603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-05346-9 010 $a0-19-156841-4 010 $a9786612053467 035 $a(CKB)2560000000300864 035 $a(EBL)430709 035 $a(OCoLC)326881739 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000087990 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11395624 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000087990 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10071451 035 $a(PQKB)10351998 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000074625 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC430709 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL430709 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10288302 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL205346 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000300864 100 $a20081103d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe letters of Jerome$b[electronic resource] $easceticism, biblical exegesis, and the construction of Christian authority in late antiquity /$fAndrew Cain 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (301 p.) 225 1 $aOxford early Christian studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-956355-1 311 $a0-19-172125-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [229]-272) and indexes. 327 $aIntroduction -- '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. 330 $aIn life Jerome's authority was frequently questioned, yet following his death he was venerated as a saint. Andrew Cain systematically examines Jerome's idealized self-presentation across the extant epistolary corpus, exploring how and why Jerome used letter writing as a means to bid for status as an expert on the Bible and ascetic spirituality. - ;In the centuries following his death, Jerome (c.347-420) was venerated as a saint and as one of the four Doctors of the Latin church. In his own lifetime, however, he was a severely marginalized figure whose intellectual and spiritual authority did n 410 0$aOxford early Christian studies. 606 $aChristian saints$vCorrespondence 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aChristian saints 676 $a270.2092 700 $aCain$b Andrew$0476535 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465138603321 996 $aThe letters of Jerome$92457169 997 $aUNINA