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The Saint's saints : hagiography and geography in Jerome /

This is the first full-length study of Jerome's saints' Lives. It analyses the way he combines classical, Christian and Jewish literary sources with his actual experience of the geography of late antique Palestine to re-write the biblical Holy Land as a new and Christian world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weingarten, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
Colección:Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums ; Bd. 58.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One. The Vita Pauli: The Holy Man in the Wilderness: Did Jerome appropriate Jewish Aggadah?; Chapter Two. The vita Hilarionis: The Christianisation of the Roman World; Chapter Three. The vita Malchi: Jerome's Christian Appropriation of the Human Body; Chapter Four. Jerome's ep. 108 and the Christian Appropriation of the Holy Land; Concluding Summary; Maps; Bibliography; General Index; Geographical Index.