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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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)
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