The Saint's Saints

Hagiography and Geography in Jerome
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14387-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 58, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 730 g

Reihe: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weingarten, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Weingarten is an Archaeologist and Historian living in Israel. She received her Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in 2001. Currently she belongs to the research team of the Sir Isaac Wolfson Chair of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University. She has published a number of papers on Jerome, pilgrimage traditions and the historical geography of the Holy Land.