Jerome, Vita malchi: introduction, text, translation, and commentary
"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 (AD c. 347-419/20). The Vita Malchi--or, to use Jerome's title, the Captive...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English Latin |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Edition: | 1. ed. |
| Series/Journal: | Oxford classical monographs
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Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius 345-420, Vita Malchi
B Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius 345-420, Vita Malchi / Translation / English language |
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Commentary
B Malchus Saint B Jerome Saint (-419 or 420) Vita Malchi Monachi captive |
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| Summary: | "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 (AD c. 347-419/20). 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 ... This volume's introduction provides background information on the author, Jerome, and the historical and linguistic context of the Life of Malchus, 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 ... 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"--Back cover |
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| ISBN: | 0198723725 |