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The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship Book
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Blackwell
In The Monk and the Book, Megan Hale Williams argues that Saint Jerome was the first to articulate a discourse and practice that made Christian biblical scholarship a mode of asceticism appropriate for a monk. Jerome thus pioneered the enduring...
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"[Williams] has written a fascinating study, which provides a series of striking insights into the career of one of the most colorful and influential figures in Christian antiquity. Jerome's Latin Bible would become the foundational text for the intellectual development of the West, providing words for the deepest aspirations and most intensely held convictions of an entire civilization. Williams's book does much to illumine the circumstances in which that fundamental text was produced, and reminds us that great ideas, like great people, have particular origins, and their own complex settings."â??Eamon Duffy, New York Review of Books
- 0226899004
- 9780226899008
- MH Williams
- 15 December 2006
- Chicago University Press
- Hardcover (Book)
- 312
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