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Jerome, Vita Malchi - Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
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Jerome, Vita Malchi - Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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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.
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