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Jerome (The Early Church Fathers)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 270.2092
EAN: 9780415199063
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0415199069
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 176
Publication Date: October 27, 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Studio: Routledge
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Editorial Review:
Jerome (AD 347-420) brought the traditions of classical rhetoric and Christian exegesis more closely together than any other early Christian writer, many of whom saw classical culture as an enemy to be rejected. As a scholar and commentator on the Bible and an indefatigable translator from Hebrew, Jerome was a major intellectual force in the early church. His novelistic lives of the saints encapsulated Christian aspirations in an attractive literary form. As an ascetic and (often irascible) mentor to many young Christian men and women, he shaped the ideals of Christian chastity and poverty for generations to come. This book assembles a representative selection of his voluminous output, and will help readers to a balanced portrait of a complex and brilliant, but not always likeable man.
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Rating: - Good bio and sampler
The biography that opens this volume is short but well reasoned. Rebenich attempts to give a new view of Jerome: revising, for example, the common picture of his lonely sojourn in the desert to one of a man living on a country estate with a team of copyists (although he did no doubt spend some time in solitary meditation). The texts have been selected to show the range of Jerome's literary activities. There is also a good bibliography. On the whole, I would recommend this book over Kelly's excellent ... Read More
Rating: - Jerome
Rebenich does an excellent job of collecting enough information in one book to give a detailed look at the life of Jerome. Interspersed translations of letters give an additional feel that only comes from primary sources, a nice addition to the span of the articles. The footnoting is relavent, detailed, and informative. To find this amount of pertinent articles and letters elsewhere would take at least a few full days of searching.
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