The Monk and the Book. Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship. By Megan Hale Williams

As the author of this study is well aware, writing an orthodox biography of Jerome is a prospect that ‘the sensible historian will firmly resist’ (p. 263), simply because we do not have appropriate documentation for what might be called an external approach. Here, we are offered a chronology of Jero...

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Auteur principal: Murdoch, Brian (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Review
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Oxford University Press 2007
Dans: Literature and theology
Année: 2007, Volume: 21, Numéro: 3, Pages: 336-338
Compte rendu de:The monk and the book (Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006) (Murdoch, Brian)
The monk and the book (Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press, 2006) (Murdoch, Brian)
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Résumé:As the author of this study is well aware, writing an orthodox biography of Jerome is a prospect that ‘the sensible historian will firmly resist’ (p. 263), simply because we do not have appropriate documentation for what might be called an external approach. Here, we are offered a chronology of Jerome's career as an appendix, but we do have a great deal of Jerome's own material, and if such crucial questions have to be left unanswered—as, for example, where or why he began to learn Hebrew (his own version is at best unreliably retrospective)—this study presents a number of different insights into the contextualisation and method of Jerome's work.
ISSN:1477-4623
Contient:Enthalten in: Literature and theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frm032