Half Title 2
Series Information 3
Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
Acknowledgments 10
Introduction 12
1 Knowing Jerome: Reading and Communities 13
2 The Ethics of Literary Production in Late Antiquity 17
3 Jerome’s Biography 30
4 Reconstructing Jerome’s Ethics of Literary Production 38
Chapter 1 Writing across the Sea: Jerome’s Commentaries on Philemon and Titus 41
1 Introduction 41
2 Jerome’s Pauline Commentaries 44
3 Ethics and the Pauline Renaissance of Fourth-Century Rome 46
4 Literary Production and the Commentary Form 51
5 Scriptural Reading and the Ethics of Literary Production in the Prefaces to the Commentaries on Titus and Philemon 57
6 Conclusion 65
Chapter 2 Recapitulation and Literary Ethics in the Commentary on Ephesians 68
1 Introduction 68
2 Eph. 1.10b in Jerome’s Commentary: Coherence and Incoherence 72
2.1 The Coherence of Jerome’s Comment on Ephesians 1:10b 73
2.2 The Incoherence of Jerome’s Comment on Ephesians 1:10b 75
3 Recapitulation and Typology in Jerome’s Comment on Eph. 1:10b 78
3.1 The Theology of Reading: Recapitulation and Typology from Paul to Tyconius 80
3.2 Ephesians 1:10b and the Eschatological Ethics of Reading 90
4 Conclusion 94
Chapter 3 Imitation in the Commentary on Ephesians 97
1 Imitating the Apostle in the Ephesians Commentary 99
2 Proverbs 8:22 and the Christian Life in the Commentary 102
3 The Commentary on Ephesians as a Product of Mimēsis 105
4 ‘Learning Christ’ and Conscientia 112
5 Conclusion 115
Chapter 4 Reading and Being in the Commentary on Ephesians 117
1 Christology, Reading and ‘Passing Over’ 119
2 Familiarity, Difference and Abjection 120
3 A Performance of Scriptural Reading: Ephesians 3:16–19 129
4 Conclusion 132
Chapter 5 Hebrew in Jerome’s Literary Production 135
1 Introduction 135
2 Hebrew in the Late Ancient Mediterranean 137
3 The Stability of the Hebraica Veritas 143
4 Ethics and the Disruption of Order 148
5 Conclusion 156
Chapter 6 Ethics and the Self in the Life of Hilarion 158
1 Introduction 158
2 The Context of the Life of Hilarion 160
2.1 The Experience of the Holy Places in Letter 46 161
2.2 The Pharisees 168
3 The Life of Hilarion 170
4 The Ethics of Seeing 178
5 Authorial Practice and the Imitation of Christ 182
6 Narrating ‘Particular Virtues’ 185
7 Conclusion 189
Chapter 7 Paul and the Incarnation in Jerome’s Commentary on Galatians 192
1 Introduction 192
2 Galatians 2:11–14 in Jerome’s Commentary and His Letter 49 197
3 Augustine and the Problem of Pedagogic Pretence 201
4 Language, Reading and Simulatio in Jerome 207
5 Conclusion 212
Chapter 8 Against Jovinian and Ascetic Responsibility 214
1 Baptism and Cosmic Order in the Teaching of Jovinian 217
2 The Diversity of Human Society in Against Jovinian 223
3 The Incarnation as the Model of Human Behaviour 226
4 Soteriology and Responsibility 231
5 Conclusion 238
Chapter 9 On Famous Men and the Ruins of Late Antiquity 240
1 Introduction 240
2 Origen’s Fifth Homily on Luke: Ruined Cities and Empty Signs 244
3 On Famous Men and a Universal Christianity 249
4 The Ruin of Stridon and the Memory of Jerome 253
5 Conclusion 258
Conclusion 260
Bibliography 268
Abbreviations 268
Primary Sources 268
Secondary Sources 270
Index 301

Thomas E. Hunt

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