The Saint's saints : : hagiography and geography in Jerome / / by Susan Weingarten.
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 readers....
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| Superior document: | Ancient Judaism & early Christianity, v. 58 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2005. |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (339 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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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.