The Letters of Jerome: Asceticism, Biblical Exegesis, and the Construction of Christian Authority in Late Antiquity. By Andrew Cain
‘This book offers a fresh interpretation of Jerome’s letters’. So the opening words of Cain’s foreword. The ‘freshness’ is to be found in the interpretation of the letters as tools of propaganda designed to impress the reader with the writer’s know-how as biblical scholar and ascetic saint: Jerome w...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2010, Volume: 61, Issue: 1, Pages: 359-361 |
| Review of: | The letters of Jerome (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2009) (Adkin, Neil)
The letters of Jerome (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2009) (Adkin, Neil) |
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| Summary: | ‘This book offers a fresh interpretation of Jerome’s letters’. So the opening words of Cain’s foreword. The ‘freshness’ is to be found in the interpretation of the letters as tools of propaganda designed to impress the reader with the writer’s know-how as biblical scholar and ascetic saint: Jerome was thereby fishing for the patronage he needed in order to offset his own impecuniosity and finance his studious and self-mortifying otium. The first chapter reflects on the possible contents of the Epistularum ad diversos liber, which Jerome is argued to have put together and disseminated on coming to Rome in 382 as proof of his expertise in asceticism. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp138 |