The Saint's saints : hagiography and geography in Jerome /

The Saint's saints : hagiography and geography in Jerome /

The Saint's Saints presents Jerome's world picture as seen through his saints' Lives . It analyses both his rhetoric and his descriptions of realia , and the way he combines classical, Christian and Jewish sources to re-write the biblical Holy Land as a new and Christian world for his...

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Main Author: Weingarten, Susan.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.

Series: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 58.
Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity Online, ISBN: 9789004365223.

Subjects:

Jerome, > Saint, > -419 or 420.
Hilarion, > Saint, > approximately 291-approximately 371.
Malchus, > Saint.
Paul, > the Hermit, Saint, > -approximately 341.
Jerome, > Saint, > -419 or 420. > Vita Malchi Monachi captivi.
Eusebius, > of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, > approximately 260-approximately 340. > Onomasticon.
Bible > Geography.
Bible.
Onomasticon (Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea)
Vita Malchi monachi captivi (Jerome, Saint)
Vita Pauli (Jerome, Saint)
Christian hagiography.
Geography.

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Call Number: BR65.J476 W45 2005

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • The Vita Pauli: The Holy Man in the Wilderness: Did Jerome Appropriate Jewish Aggadah?
  • The Vita Hilarionis: The Christianisation of the Roman World
  • The Vita Malchi: Jerome's Christian Appropriation of the Human Body
  • Jerome's Ep. 108 and the Christian Appropriation of the Holy Land
  • Concluding Summary
  • Map
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Geographical Index
  • Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.