{"title":"A Choice of Epistles","authors":"A. Cain","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192847195.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847195.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter begins by elaborating on the circumstances under which Jerome composed his four Pauline commentaries in Bethlehem during the summer and early autumn of 386, ostensibly in response to a formal commission by his literary patrons Paula and her daughter Eustochium. The chapter focuses on the impetuses behind Jerome’s work on Paul and addresses several vital questions related to his authorial intent. Why did Jerome, who by inclination and research output was overwhelmingly a Hebrew Bible scholar, comment on Paul at all? Why did he do so at this particular juncture in his literary career, given that there are no real traces of a prior interest in Paul’s writings? Why, moreover, did he compose commentaries on the seemingly miscellaneous quartet of Galatians, Ephesians, Titus, and Philemon?","PeriodicalId":447084,"journal":{"name":"Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125049929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Between East and West","authors":"A. Cain","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192847195.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847195.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter interrogates the Latin sources of Jerome’s Pauline commentaries, an important but often neglected component of their literary pedigree. It begins by taking stock of how he handles classical literary references and it finds that he draws from an eclectic spread of texts. In the remaining bulk of the chapter his numerous unattributed borrowings—virtually all of which have gone undetected by modern scholars—from the writings of Tertullian, Cyprian, and Lactantius are adduced and discussed. As a result of these source-critical investigations, Jerome’s four Pauline commentaries emerge as an even more colorful literary patchwork than they traditionally have been given credit for being.","PeriodicalId":447084,"journal":{"name":"Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129738152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ad fontes","authors":"Andrew Cain","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt1cgf3f7.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1cgf3f7.5","url":null,"abstract":"In the years leading up to his work on Paul, Jerome had become hardened in the conviction that biblical scholars should possess a mastery of the biblical languages, Hebrew and Greek, so that they can read Scripture in its original form. During his stay in Rome between 382 and 385, he had experimented with this back-to-the-sources approach in a number of shorter exegetical set pieces, but it was not until he embarked on his opus Paulinum that he was able finally to apply it systematically in the context of commentaries on whole biblical books. This chapter explores, through detailed case studies, how he develops his ad fontes methodology in the four Pauline commentaries and cumulatively builds the case for Hebrew and Greek philology being absolutely vital to serious study of the Bible, all the while attempting to demonstrate by example that he is the model biblical scholar.","PeriodicalId":447084,"journal":{"name":"Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131396424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In Origen’s Footsteps","authors":"A. Cain","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192847195.003.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847195.003.0007","url":null,"abstract":"In his first Galatians preface Jerome casts himself in an Origenian mold in order to establish himself as the pre-eminent expert on Paul in the Latin-speaking world. Both in this preface and in the first Ephesians one he says that he “followed” Origen’s commentaries. But, beyond simply aligning himself rhetorically with Origen in these prefaces, to what extent does he in fact “follow” Origen in his commentaries? This chapter attempts to answer this crucial question by presenting a source-critical comparison of the fragments of Origen’s Pauline commentaries and their counterparts in Jerome’s. From there it explores some important implications, for his own self-constructed authority as an interpreter of Paul, of Jerome’s nuanced handling of his Greek exegetical sources.","PeriodicalId":447084,"journal":{"name":"Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129238949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Ascetic Apostle","authors":"A. Cain","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192847195.003.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847195.003.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Jerome viewed his commentaries as a formal scholarly enterprise, a teaching tool for their ostensible addressees (and other readers down the line), and also a vehicle for propagating his idiosyncratic ascetic ideals. This chapter begins by situating the commentaries as a textualized extension of his face-to-face instruction of his circle of spiritual advisees, which included Paula and Eustochium as well as Marcella (an honorary dedicatee of the commentaries) and other discipulae he had left behind in Rome. From there we look closely at the often subtle ways in which he interprets Paul through an asceticizing lens to center his own ideological priorities, from his emphasis on sexual purity to his notion of a monastic clergy.","PeriodicalId":447084,"journal":{"name":"Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115120336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conclusion","authors":"A. Cain","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192847195.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847195.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"The Conclusion revisits the principal findings of each chapter and reflects on the lasting achievements of Jerome’s opus Paulinum, especially vis-à-vis the interpretive work of contemporary Latin-language commentators on Paul. Through his four Pauline commentaries he set out to equip Christians in a single weighty reference work with every tool they might need, right at their fingertips, for the advanced study of Paul, and in adapting the form and substance of the Greek exegetical tradition to an entirely new cultural and linguistic context, Jerome effectively recalibrated and retooled Latin biblical exegesis and created what was for all practical purposes a new species of the Pauline commentary in Latin.","PeriodicalId":447084,"journal":{"name":"Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131207446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Prefaces","authors":"A. Cain","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192847195.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847195.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Jerome composed a total of eight prefaces for his four Pauline commentaries: one for each of the three books of the Galatians and Ephesians commentaries, and one each for the Titus and Philemon commentaries. In half of these prefaces he includes personal content which has nothing to do with the epistle under comment. This chapter argues that he deployed these four prefaces to work toward a number of goals at once—cultivate literary patrons in Rome, defend his opus Paulinum against anticipated criticism, and displace Marius Victorinus and install himself as the Latin West’s first legitimate commentator on Paul.","PeriodicalId":447084,"journal":{"name":"Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority","volume":"2013 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129538284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Orthodoxy and Heresy","authors":"A. Cain","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780192847195.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847195.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout his literary career, which spanned some four decades, Jerome consistently projected to readers the image of a mighty champion of theological orthodoxy. Rhetorically speaking, he curated this idealized image in part by defining himself in stark opposition to “heretics” whom he relentlessly cast as the damnable “other.” He adopts this same literary persona to the hilt in the four Pauline commentaries. This chapter first reviews his anti-heretical strategies in them before moving on to case studies in his three main heresiological preoccupations as an interpreter of Paul: Marcionite theology, anti-Nicene Christologies, and the Gnostic doctrine of fixed natures.","PeriodicalId":447084,"journal":{"name":"Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124743091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}