Monk and the Book - Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship

Informationen zum Autor Megan Hale Williams is associate professor of history at San Francisco State University. She is coauthor! with Anthony Grafton! of Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen! Eusebius! and the Library of Caesarea. Klappentext Argues that Saint Jerome was the first to represent biblical study as a mode of asceticism appropriate for an inhabitant of a Christian monastery! thus pioneering the enduring linkage of monastic identities and institutions with scholarship. Zusammenfassung Argues that Saint Jerome was the first to represent biblical study as a mode of asceticism appropriate for an inhabitant of a Christian monastery! thus pioneering the enduring linkage of monastic identities and institutions with scholarship.

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• Authors: Megan Hale Williams, Megan Hale Williams, Williams Megan Hale
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2014
• EAN: 9780226215303
• ISBN: 978-0-226-21530-3
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, History of Religion