Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-162) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction; From Stridon to Aquileia: Between Career and Conversion; Antioch and Chalcis: The Making of an Ascetic Champion; Constantinople: The Formation of a Christian Writer; Rome: High-Flying Hopes and Deep Fall; Bethlehem (I): The Origenist Controversy; Bethlehem (II): The Biblical Scholar; Translations; The Novelist: Letter 1 to Innocentius; The Theologian: Letter 15 to Damasus; The Chronographer: Preface to the Chronicle of Eusebius; The Epistolographer: Letter 31 to Eustochium; The Satirist: Letter 40 to Marcella concerning Onasus.
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This book assembles a representative selection of Jerome's voluminous output. It will help readers to a balanced portrait of a brilliant and complex man who was a major intellectual force in the early church.