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Jerome's commentaries on the Pauline epistles and the architecture of exegetical authority /

"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 epistle...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cain, Andrew (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford early Christian studies.
Subjects:
Jerome, > Saint, > -419 or 420. > Epistola ad Paulinum presbyterum.
Bible. > Epistles of Paul > Commentaries > History.
Jerome, > Saint, > -419 or 420
Bible. > Epistles of Paul
Ancient & Classical.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS.
Biblical Studies.
RELIGION.
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.