Jerome
(AD 347-420) brought the traditions of classical rhetoric and Christian
exegesis more closely together than any other early Christian writer,
many of whom saw classical culture as an enemy to be rejected. As a
scholar and commentator on the Bible and an indefatigable translator
from Hebrew, Jerome was a major intellectual force in the early church.
His novelistic lives of the saints encapsulated Christian aspirations in
an attractive literary form. As an ascetic and (often irascible) mentor
to many young Christian men and women, he shaped the ideals of
Christian chastity and poverty for generations to come. This book
assembles a representative selection of his voluminous output, and will
help readers to a balanced portrait of a complex and brilliant, but not
always likeable man.
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