Vox clamantis in deserto: Rhetoric, Reproach, and the Forging of Ascetic Authority in Jerome's Letters from the Syrian Desert

In eight letters (Epp. 6–9, 11–13, 16) that Jerome sent from his monastic retreat in the Syrian desert between c.375 and c.377, he sharply criticized friends who were not as faithful in writing to him as he had been to them. John Kelly, in his influential biography of Jerome (1975), famously read th...

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Main Author: Cain, Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2006
In: The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 500-525
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