ABSTRACT

As a scholar, writer and ascetic, Jerome was a major intellectual force in the early Church and influenced the ideals of Christian chastity and poverty for many generations after his death. This book assembles a representative selection of his voluminous output. It will help readers to a balanced portrait of a complex and brilliant, but not always likeable man.

part I|60 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|9 pages

From Stridon to Aquileia

Between Career and Conversion

chapter 2|9 pages

Antioch and Chalcis

The Making of an Ascetic Champion

chapter 3|10 pages

Constantinople

The Formation of a Christian Writer

chapter 4|10 pages

Rome

High-Flying Hopes and Deep Fall

chapter 5|11 pages

Bethlehem (I)

The Origenist Controversy

chapter 6|9 pages

Bethlehem (II)

The Biblical Scholar

part II|76 pages

Translations

chapter 7|7 pages

The Novelist

Letter 1 to Innocentius

chapter 8|5 pages

The Theologian

Letter 15 to Damasus

chapter 9|4 pages

The Chronographer

Preface to the Chronicle of Eusebius

chapter 10|3 pages

The Epistolographer

Letter 31 to Eustochium

chapter 11|3 pages

The Satirist

Letter 40 to Marcella concerning Onasus

chapter 12|8 pages

The Biographer

The Life of Malchus the Captive Monk

chapter 13|4 pages

The Biblical Scholar

Preface to the Book of Hebrew Questions

chapter 14|4 pages

The Literary Historian

Lives of Famous Men

chapter 15|4 pages

The Translator

The Preface to the Vulgate version of the Pentateuch

chapter 16|14 pages

The Controversialist

Against Vigilantius

chapter 17|11 pages

The Threnodist

Letter 127 to Principia

chapter 18|7 pages

The Ascetic Expert

Letter 128 to Pacatula

part III|8 pages

Bibliography

chapter |6 pages

Jerome's Works