TY - BOOK ID - 85793379 TI - Jerome's commentaries on the Pauline epistles and the architecture of exegetical authority PY - 2021 SN - 9780192847195 0192847198 0191939609 0192662902 PB - Oxford Oxford University Press DB - UniCat KW - Jerome, KW - 227.1 KW - 276 =71 HIERONYMUS, SOPHRONIUS EUSEBIUS KW - 227.1 Brieven van Paulus--(algemeen) KW - Brieven van Paulus--(algemeen) KW - 276 =71 HIERONYMUS, SOPHRONIUS EUSEBIUS Latijnse patrologie--HIERONYMUS, SOPHRONIUS EUSEBIUS KW - 276 =71 HIERONYMUS, SOPHRONIUS EUSEBIUS Patrologie latine--HIERONYMUS, SOPHRONIUS EUSEBIUS KW - Latijnse patrologie--HIERONYMUS, SOPHRONIUS EUSEBIUS KW - Patrologie latine--HIERONYMUS, SOPHRONIUS EUSEBIUS UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85793379 AB - In the late fourth and early fifth centuries, during a fifty-year stretch sometimes dubbed a Pauline "renaissance" of the western chuch, 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. They also constitute his first foray into the systematic exposition of whole biblical books (and his only experiment with Pauline interpretation on this scale), and so they provide precious insight into his intellectual development at a critical stage of his early career before he would go on to become the most prolific biblical scholar of Late Antiquity. This monograph provides the first book-length treatment of Jerome's opus Paulinum in any language. 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. One of the overarching concerns of this book is to explore and to answer, from multiple vantage points, a question that was absolutely fundamental to Jerome in his fourth-century context: what are the sophisticated mechanisms by which he legitimized himself as a Pauline commentator, not only on his own terms but also vis-à- vis contemporary western commentators? ER -