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In the three books of his Contra Rufinum , a work dating back to his mature period (401-402), Jerome (ca 347-420) fought against his erstwhile friend turned rival, Rufinus: the two Latin monks, one settled in Bethlehem, the other in Jerusalem, had come to confront each other on such issues as the timeliness and ways (translation, commentary...) of transmitting an Oriental heritage to the West, Greek (in particular the works of Origen [ca. 185-ca. 253], whose Peri Archôn they both translated in competition) as well as Jewish (the biblical hebraica veritas which Jerome championed). They were also at variance on the appreciation of profane culture (the Latin classics). Jerome's Contra Rufinum is a masterpiece by a brilliant polemist and an important document as to a knowledge of the actors and the vicissitudes of a controversy which mobilised many Christians, Eastern and Western alike, on the eve of the sacking of Rome by the Barbarians. This commentary seeks to analyse the treatise in all its facets (historical and theological, philological and rhetorical), and to elucidate its connections with the different traditions (classical, biblical, patristic) to which it belongs. The Contra Rufinum thus turns out to be a remarkable vantage point from which to illuminate the entire corpus of an author whose work, spread over nearly half a century, was immensely influential during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Apologetics --- Rufin d'Aquilée, --- Jérôme de Stridon, --- History --- 871 HIERONYMUS --- -Apologetics --- Apologetics, Missionary --- Christian evidences --- Christianity --- Evidences, Christian --- Evidences of Christianity --- Fundamental theology --- Polemics (Theology) --- Theology, Fundamental --- Religious thought --- Theology --- Latijnse literatuur--HIERONYMUS --- -Evidences --- Jerome Saint --- Origen --- Rufinus of Aquileia --- Adamantius, --- Oregenes Adamantius, --- Origene --- Origenes Adamantius, --- Origenes, --- Origenis --- Orygenes --- Ūrījānūs --- -Latijnse literatuur--HIERONYMUS --- -Jerome Saint --- 871 HIERONYMUS Latijnse literatuur--HIERONYMUS --- Jerome, --- Origen. --- Rufinus, --- Ruffinus Aquileiensis --- Rufin d'Aquilée --- Tyrannius Rufinus presbyter Aquileiensis --- Turannius Rufinus presbyter Aquileiensis --- Rufinus --- Rufinus Aquileiensis, Tyrannius --- Jerome --- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 A.D. --- Tyrannius Rufinus van Aquileia --- Early church. --- Ruffinus, --- Rufin, --- Rufino, --- Rufinus Tyrannius, --- Rvffinvs, --- Tyrannius Rufinus, --- Contra Rufinum (Jerome, Saint) --- Apologia adversus libros Rufini (Jerome, Saint) --- 30 - 600 --- Early Church Period --- Primitive and Early Church Period --- Rufin d'Aquilée, 345-411 --- Jérôme de Stridon, 347-420