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This volume offers a full analysis of one of the more intriguing works by a figure who is central to our understanding of Late Antiquity and early Christianity: the translator, exegete, and controversialist Jerome (c.347-419/20AD). The neglected text of the Vita Malchi - or, to use Jerome's title, the Captive Monk - recounts the experiences of Malchus, a monk abducted by nomadic Saracens on the Eastern fringe of the fourth-century Roman Empire, in what today is the border region between southern Turkey and Syria. Most of this short, vivid, and fast-paced narrative is recounted by Malchus in the first person. The volume's introduction provides background information on the author, Jerome, and the historical and linguistic context of the Life, as well as detailed discussion of the work's style and its reception of earlier Christian and classical literature, ranging from its relationship with comedy, epic, and the ancient novel to the Apocryphal Apostolic Acts and martyr narratives. An exposition of the manuscript evidence is then followed by a new edition of the Latin text with an English translation, and a comprehensive commentary. The commentary explores the complex intertextuality of the work and provides readers with an understanding of its background, originality, and significance; it elucidates not only literary and philological questions but also points of ethnography and topography, and intellectual and social history.

Malchus, --- Jerome, --- 276 =75 HIERONYMUS --- Griekse patrologie--HIERONYMUS --- Malchus mon. captivus --- Malchus, - Saint --- Jerome, - Saint, - -419 or 420. - Vita Malchi Monachi captive

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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. Susan Weingarten looks at how Jerome dovetails his literary sources with his experience of the material world of the fourth century to write the Lives of the saints Paul, Hilarion, Malchus and Paula, effectively using them to write the Life of Saint Jerome. This is the first full-length study of Jerome’s saints’ Lives . It widens the on-going debate about mutual influences in Jewish and Christian literature in the fourth century, and revises our picture of the historical geography of Palestine.

Christian hagiography. --- Jerome, --- Paul, --- Hilarion, --- Malchus, --- Eusebius, --- Bible --- Geography. --- Christian hagiography --- Geography --- Christelijke hagiografie --- Hagiographie chrétienne --- Heiligenlevens --- Jerome --- Paul the Hermit --- Hilarion --- Malchus --- Eusebius of Caesarea --- Cosmography --- World history --- Hagiography, Christian --- Hagiography --- Malco, --- Paolo, --- Paulus, --- Gerolamo, --- Gérome, --- Gerónimo, --- Girolamo, --- Heronimos, --- Hieronim, --- Hieronymus, Eusebius, --- Hieronymus, --- Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius, --- Hieronymus, Stridonensis, --- Ieronim, Stridonskiĭ, --- Iheronimus, --- Jeronimi, --- Jerónimo, --- Jerōnimos, --- Shmawon, --- Bible. --- Onomasticon (Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea) --- Vita Malchi monachi captivi (Jerome, Saint) --- Vita Pauli (Jerome, Saint) --- Trois vies de moines (Jerome, Saint) --- Vie de Malchus, le moine captif (Jerome, Saint) --- Peri tōn topikōn onomatōn tōn en tē theia graphē (Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea) --- Vita Beati Pauli monachi Thebaei (Jerome, Saint) --- Vita Pauli eremitae (Jerome, Saint) --- Vita S. Pauli eremitae (Jerome, Saint) --- Vita Sancti Pauli primi eremitae (Jerome, Saint) --- De Paulo primo eremita (Jerome, Saint) --- Earth sciences --- Hieronymus presb. --- Paulus Thebaeus --- Malchus mon. captivus --- Hilarion ab. in Palaestina --- Jerome, - Saint, - -419 or 420 --- Jerome, - Saint, - d. 419 or 20. - Vita Pauli --- Paul, - the Hermit, Saint, - d. ca. 341 --- Jerome, - Saint, - d. 419 or 20. - Vita S. Hilarionis --- Hilarion, - Saint, - ca. 291-ca. 371 --- Jerome, - Saint, - -419 or 420. - Vita Malchi Monachi captive --- Malchus, - Saint --- Eusebius, - of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea, - ca. 260-ca. 340. - Onomasticon