his life, writings, and controversies Kelly, J. N. D. creator text xx New York Harper & Row,  1975 9999 monographic und eng

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xi, 353 p. : map ; 24 cm. Birth and childhood -- Education at Rome -- Life at Rome -- Trier and Aquileia -- Interlude at Antioch -- The desert : joys and trials -- Antioch again -- At Constantinople -- At the court of Damasus -- Marcella, Paula, Eustochium -- Triumph and disgrace -- To and fro to Bethlehem -- The monasteries at Bethlehem -- Translator and commentator -- From Septuagint to Hebrew verity -- Propagandist history -- Champion of chastity -- Jerome, Rufinus, John -- Letters, threnodies, commentaries -- A fateful translation -- The final break -- Theophilus, Chrysostom, Augustine -- The death of Paula -- Scripture, polemics, exegesis -- Gathering gloom -- The last controversy -- The curtain falls -- Epilogue -- Appendix : the date of Jerome's birth. J. N. D. Kelly Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius.Christian saints Biography BR1720.J5 .K44 1975 9780060643331060643331 220922