| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 290 pages) |
| Series |
Oxford Early Christian Studies |
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Oxford early Christian studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- A choice of epistles -- The prefaces: patronage, polemic, and apology -- Ad fontes: Greek and Hebrew philology -- The ascetic apostle -- Orthodoxy and heresy -- In Origen's footsteps: Greek sources -- Between east and west: Latin sources -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
"In the late fourth and early fifth centuries, during a fifty-year stretch sometimes dubbed a Pauline "renaissance" of the western church, six different authors produced over four dozen commentaries in Latin on Paul's epistles. Among them was Jerome, who commented on four epistles (Galatians, Ephesians, Titus, Philemon) in 386 after recently having relocated to Bethlehem from Rome. His commentaries occupy a time-honored place in the centuries-long tradition of Latin-language commenting on Paul's writings. They also constitute his first foray into the systematic exposition of whole biblical books (and his only experiment with Pauline interpretation on this scale), and so they provide precious insight into his intellectual development at a critical stage of his early career before he would go on to become the most prolific biblical scholar of Late Antiquity. This monograph provides the first book-length treatment of Jerome's opus Paulinum in any language. Adopting a cross-disciplinary approach, Cain comprehensively analyzes the commentaries' most salient aspects--from the inner workings of Jerome's philological method and engagement with his Greek exegetical sources, to his recruitment of Paul as an anachronistic surrogate for his own theological and ascetic special interests. One of the overarching concerns of this book is to explore and to answer, from multiple vantage points, a question that was absolutely fundamental to Jerome in his fourth-century context: what are the sophisticated mechanisms by which he legitimized himself as a Pauline commentator, not only on his own terms but also vis-à-vis contemporary western commentators?"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed June 10, 2022) |
| Subject |
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420. Epistola ad Paulinum presbyterum.
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| SUBJECT |
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420 fast |
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Bible. Epistles of Paul -- Commentaries -- History
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Bible. Epistles of Paul fast |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192662903 |
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0192662902 |
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9780191939600 |
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0191939609 |
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9780192662910 |
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0192662910 |
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