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Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority (Hardcover)
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Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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In the late fourth and early fifth centuries, during a fifty-year
stretch sometimes dubbed a Pauline "renaissance" of the western
church, 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 over-arching 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-a-vis contemporary western commentators?
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