Jerome
As a scholar, writer and ascetic, Jerome was a major intellectual force in the early Church and influenced the ideals of Christian chastity and poverty for many generations after his death. This book assembles a representative selection of his voluminous output. It will help readers to a balanced portrait of a complex and brilliant, but not always likeable man.
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Jerome
As a scholar, writer and ascetic, Jerome was a major intellectual force in the early Church and influenced the ideals of Christian chastity and poverty for many generations after his death. This book assembles a representative selection of his voluminous output. It will help readers to a balanced portrait of a complex and brilliant, but not always likeable man.
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Jerome

Jerome

by Stefan Rebenich
Jerome

Jerome

by Stefan Rebenich

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As a scholar, writer and ascetic, Jerome was a major intellectual force in the early Church and influenced the ideals of Christian chastity and poverty for many generations after his death. This book assembles a representative selection of his voluminous output. It will help readers to a balanced portrait of a complex and brilliant, but not always likeable man.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415199063
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 09/05/2002
Series: The Early Church Fathers
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stefan Rebenich

Table of Contents

Part 1 INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 FROM STRIDON TO AQUILEIA; Chapter 2 ANTIOCH AND CHALCIS; Chapter 3 CONSTANTINOPLE; Chapter 4 ROME; Chapter 5 BETHLEHEM (I); Chapter 6 BETHLEHEM (II); Part 2 TRANSLATIONS; Chapter 7 THE NOVELIST; Chapter 8 THE THEOLOGIAN; Chapter 9 THE CHRONOGRAPHER; Chapter 10 THE EPISTOLOGRAPHER; Chapter 11 THE SATIRIST; Chapter 12 THETHE BIBLICAL SCHOLAR; Chapter 14 THE LITERARY HISTORIAN; Chapter 15 THE TRANSLATOR; Chapter 16 THE CONTROVERSIALIST; Chapter 17 THE THRENODIST; Chapter 18 THE ASCETIC EXPERT; Part 3 BIBLIOGRAPHY; Chapter 19 JEROME'S WORKS; Chapter 20 SECONDARY LITERATURE;
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