Monk and the Book Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship

Name: Monk and the Book Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship
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ISBN: 9780226899008

ISBN-10: 0226899004

ISBN-13: 9780226899008

Edition: 2006

Authors: Megan Hale Williams

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In 'The Monk and the Book', Megan Hale Williams argues that Saint Jerome was the first to represent biblical study as a mode of asceticism appropriate for an inhabitant of a Christian monastery, thus pioneering the enduring linkage of monastic identities and institutions with scholarship.

Book details

List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 0.69" wide x 0.95" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


List of Abbreviations


Introduction



The Making of A Christian Writer



Experiments of Exigesis



Interpretation and Construction of Jerome's Authority



Jerome's Library



Toward the Monastic Order of Books



The Book and the Voice



Readers and Patrons


Epilogue


Appendix: Chronology of Jerome's Career


Bibliography


Index