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Jerome and the Monastic Clergy

Author : Andrew Cain
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004244382

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Jerome and the Monastic Clergy by Andrew Cain Pdf

In Jerome and the Monastic Clergy, Andrew Cain provides the first full-scale commentary on the famous Letter to Nepotian, in which Jerome articulates his radical plan for imposing a strict ascetic code of conduct on the contemporary clergy. Cain comprehensively addresses stylistic, literary, historical, text-critical and other issues of interpretive interest. Accompanying the commentary is an introduction which situates the Letter in the broader context of its author’s life and work and exposes its fundamental propagandistic dimensions. The revised critical Latin text and the new facing-page translation will make the Letter more accessible than ever before and will provide a reliable textual apparatus for future scholarship on this key writing by one of the most prolific authors in Latin antiquity.

Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority

Author : Andrew Cain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780192662910

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Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority by Andrew Cain Pdf

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 over-arching 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?

Jerome, Vita Malchi

Author : Saint Jerome
Publisher : Oxford Classical Monographs
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198723721

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"This volume offers a full analysis of one of the more intriguing works by a figure who is central to our understanding of Late Antiquity and early Christianity: the translator, exegete, and controversialist Jerome (AD c. 347-419/20). The Vita Malchi--or, to use Jerome's title, the Captive Monk--recounts the experiences of Malchus, a monk abducted by nomadic Saracens on the Eastern fringe of the fourth-century Roman Empire ... This volume's introduction provides background information on the author, Jerome, and the historical and linguistic context of the Life of Malchus, as well as detailed discussion of the work's style and its reception of earlier Christian and classical literature, ranging from its relationship with comedy, epic, and the ancient novel to the Apocryphal Apostolic Acts and martyr narratives ... The commentary explores the complex intertextuality of the work and provides readers with an understanding of its background, originality, and significance; it elucidates not only literary and philological questions but also points of ethnography and topography, and intellectual and social history"--Back cover.

Inquiry about the Monks in Egypt

Author : Rufinus (of Aquileia),Rufinus of Aquileia
Publisher : Fathers of the Church Patristi
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813232645

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Inquiry about the Monks in Egypt by Rufinus (of Aquileia),Rufinus of Aquileia Pdf

From September 394 to early January 395, seven monks from Rufinus of Aquileia's monastery on the Mount of Olives made a pilgrimage to Egypt to visit locally renowned monks and monastic communities. Shortly after their return to Jerusalem, one of the party, whose identity remains a mystery, wrote an engaging account of this trip. Although he cast it in the form of a first-person travelogue, it reads more like a book of miracles that depicts the great fourth-century Egyptian monks as prophets and apostles similar to those in the Bible. This work was composed in Greek, yet it is best known today as Historia monachorum in Aegypto (Inquiry about the Monks in Egypt), the title of the Latin translation of this work made by Rufinus, the pilgrim-monks' abbot. The Historia monachorum is one of the most fascinating, fantastical, and enigmatic pieces of literature to survive from the patristic period. In both its Greek original and Rufinus's Latin translation it was one of the most popular and widely disseminated works of monastic hagiography during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Modern scholars value it not only for its intrinsic literary merits but also for its status, alongside Athanasius's Life of Antony, the Pachomian dossier, and other texts of this ilk, as one of the most important primary sources for monasticism in fourth-century Egypt. Rufinus's Historia monachorum is presented here in English translation in its entirety. The introduction and annotations situate the work in its literary, historical, religious, and theological contexts.

Nuns' Priests' Tales

Author : Fiona J. Griffiths
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812249750

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Nuns' Priests' Tales by Fiona J. Griffiths Pdf

List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- The puzzle of the nuns' priest --Biblical models : women and men in the apostolic life -- Jerome and the noble women of Rome -- Brothers, sons, and uncles : nuns' priests and family ties -- Speaking to the bridegroom : women and the power of prayer -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Beati pauperes.

Jerome's Epitaph on Paula

Author : Saint Jerome
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199672608

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Jerome's Epitaph on Paula by Saint Jerome Pdf

Composed in 404, Jerome's Epitaph on Saint Paula (Epitaphium Sanctae Paulae) is an elaborate eulogy commemorating the life of Paula (347-404), a wealthy Christian widow from Rome who renounced her senatorial status and embraced an ascetic lifestyle and in 386 co-founded with Jerome a monastic complex in Bethlehem.

Jerome of Stridon and the Ethics of Literary Production in Late Antiquity

Author : Thomas E. Hunt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004417458

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Jerome of Stridon and the Ethics of Literary Production in Late Antiquity by Thomas E. Hunt Pdf

Jerome of Stridon and the Ethics of Literary Production in Late Antiquity offers a new account of the development of Jerome’s work in the period 386-393CE. Focusing on his commentaries, his translation projects, and his work against heresy, it argues that Jerome has a consistent theology of language and embodiment.

The Letters of Jerome

Author : Andrew Cain
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191568411

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In the centuries following his death, Jerome (c.347-420) was venerated as a saint and as one of the four Doctors of the Latin church. In his own lifetime, however, he was a severely marginalized figure whose intellectual and spiritual authority did not go unchallenged, at times even by those in his inner circle. His ascetic theology was rejected by the vast majority of Christian contemporaries, his Hebrew scholarship was called into question by the leading Biblical authorities of the day, and the reputation he cultivated as a pious monk was compromised by allegations of moral impropriety with some of his female disciples. In view of the extremely problematic nature of his profile, how did Jerome seek to bring credibility to himself and his various causes? In this book, the first of its kind in any language, Andrew Cain answers this crucial question through a systematic examination of Jerome's idealized self-presentation across the whole range of his extant epistolary corpus. Modern scholars overwhelmingly either access the letters as historical sources or appreciate their aesthetic properties. Cain offers a new approach and explores the largely neglected but nonetheless fundamental propagandistic dimension of the correspondence. In particular, he proposes theories about how, and above all why, Jerome used individual letters and letter-collections to bid for status as an expert on the Bible and ascetic spirituality.

The World's Greatest Religious Leaders [2 volumes]

Author : Scott E. Hendrix,Uchenna Okeja
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798216168867

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The World's Greatest Religious Leaders [2 volumes] by Scott E. Hendrix,Uchenna Okeja Pdf

This book provides reliable information about important world religious leaders, correcting the misinformation that can be on the internet. Religious leaders have shaped the course of history and deeply affected the lives of many individuals. This book offers alphabetically arranged profiles of roughly 160 religious leaders from around the world and across time, carefully chosen for their impact and importance and to maximize inclusiveness of faiths from around the world. Scholars from around the world, each one an expert in his or her field and all holding advanced degrees, came together to create an essential resource for students and for those with an interest in religion and its history. Every entry has been carefully edited in a two-stage review process, guaranteeing accuracy and readability throughout the work. Not strictly a biographical reference that recounts the facts of religious figures' lives, the book helps users understand how the selected figures changed history. The entries are accompanied by excerpts of primary source documents and suggestions for further reading, while the book closes with a bibliography of essential print and electronic resources for further research.

The Illustrated Afterlife of Terence’s Comedies (800–1200)

Author : Beatrice Radden Keefe
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004463325

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The Illustrated Afterlife of Terence’s Comedies (800–1200) by Beatrice Radden Keefe Pdf

This is a book about Roman comedy, ancient theatre imagery, and seven medieval illustrated manuscripts of Terence’s six Latin comedies. These manuscript illustrations, made between 800 and 1200, enabled their medieval readers to view these comedies as “mirrors of life”.

Preaching in the Patristic Era

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004363564

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Preaching in the Patristic Era by Anonim Pdf

Preaching in the Patristic Era. Sermons, Preachers, Audiences in the Latin West offers an introduction to the field of Latin patristic preaching with attention both to general topics and individual preachers and collections of sermons.

Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity

Author : David G. Hunter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199279784

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Marriage, Celibacy, and Heresy in Ancient Christianity by David G. Hunter Pdf

A study of the 'heretic' Jovinian and the Jovinianist controversy, this work examines early Christian views on marriage and celibacy in the first three centuries and the development of an anti-heretical tradition. It provides an analysis of the responses of Jovinian's main opponents.

Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery

Author : Ilaria L. E. Ramelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191083068

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Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery by Ilaria L. E. Ramelli Pdf

Were slavery and social injustice leading to dire poverty in antiquity and late antiquity only regarded as normal, 'natural' (Aristotle), or at best something morally 'indifferent' (the Stoics), or, in the Christian milieu, a sad but inevitable consequence of the Fall, or even an expression of God's unquestionable will? Social Justice and the Legitimacy of Slavery shows that there were also definitive condemnations of slavery and social injustice as iniquitous and even impious, and that these came especially from ascetics, both in Judaism and in Christianity, and occasionally also in Greco-Roman ('pagan') philosophy. Ilaria L. E. Ramelli argues that this depends on a link not only between asceticism and renunciation, but also between asceticism and justice, at least in ancient and late antique philosophical asceticism. Ramelli provides a careful investigation through all of Ancient Philosophy (not only Aristotle and the Stoics, but also the Sophists, Socrates, Plato, the Neoplatonists, and much more), Ancient to Rabbinic Judaism, Hellenistic Jewish ascetic groups such as the Essenes and the Therapeutae, all of the New Testament, with special focus on Paul and Jesus, and Greek, Latin, and Syriac Patristic, from Clement and Origen to the Cappadocians, from John Chrysostom to Theodoret to Byzantine monastics, from Ambrose to Augustine, from Bardaisan to Aphrahat, without neglecting the Christianized Sentences of Sextus. In particular, Ramelli considers Gregory of Nyssa and the interrelation between theory and practice in all of these ancient and patristic philosophers, as well as to the parallels that emerge in their arguments against slavery and against social injustice.

Late Antique Letter Collections

Author : Cristiana Sogno,Bradley K. Storin,Edward J. Watts
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520308411

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Late Antique Letter Collections by Cristiana Sogno,Bradley K. Storin,Edward J. Watts Pdf

Bringing together an international team of historians, classicists, and scholars of religion, this volume provides the first comprehensive overview of the extant Greek and Latin letter collections of late antiquity (ca. 300–600 c.e.). Each chapter addresses a major collection of Greek or Latin literary letters, introducing the social and textual histories of each collection and examining its assembly, publication, and transmission. Contributions also reveal how collections operated as discrete literary genres, with their own conventions and self-presentational agendas. This book will fundamentally change how people both read these texts and use letters to reconstruct the social history of the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries.

The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto

Author : Andrew Cain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191075810

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The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto by Andrew Cain Pdf

The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto was one of the most widely read and disseminated Greek hagiographic texts during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. To this day it remains, alongside Athanasius' Life of Antony, one of the core primary sources for fourth-century Egyptian monasticism as well as one of the most fascinating, yet perplexing, pieces of monastic hagiography to survive from the entire patristic period. However, until now it has not received the intensive and sustained scholarly analysis that a monograph affords. In this study, Andrew Cain incorporates insights from source criticism, stylistic and rhetorical analysis, literary criticism, and historical, geographical, and theological studies in an attempt to break new ground and revise current scholarly orthodoxy about a broad range of interpretive issues and problems.