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 epistles (Gal...
| 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. 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. |
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| Item Description: | This edition also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 6, 2021) |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0191939609 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192847195.001.0001 |