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The Saint's Saints presents Jerome’s world picture as seen through his saints’ Lives. It analyses both his rhetoric and his descriptions of realia, and the way he combines classical, Christian and Jewish sources to re-write the biblical Holy Land as a new and Christian world for his readers. Susan Weingarten looks at how Jerome dovetails his literary sources with his experience of the material world of the fourth century to write the Lives of the saints Paul, Hilarion, Malchus and Paula, effectively using them to write the Life of Saint Jerome. This is the first full-length study of Jerome’s saints’ Lives. It widens the on-going debate about mutual influences in Jewish and Christian literature in the fourth century, and revises our picture of the historical geography of Palestine.
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The Saint’s Saints Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity Martin Hengel (Tübingen), Pieter W. van der Horst (Utrecht), Martin Goodman (Oxford), Daniel R. Schwartz ( Jerusalem), Cilliers Breytenbach (Berlin), Friedrich Avemarie (Marburg), Seth Schwartz (New York) VOLUME LVIII The Saint’s Saints Hagiography and Geography in Jerome by Susan Weingarten BRILL LEIDEN • BOSTON 2005 End Leaves: reproduction of map of the Holy Land after page 560 of Onomasticon urbium et locorum sacrae scripturae (1711) Merton catalogue no. 95.EE.6(2) This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data Weingarten, Susan. The saint’s saints: hagiography and geography in Jerome/by Susan Weingarten. p. cm.—(Ancient Judaism & early Christianity, ISSN 0169-734X; v. 58) Includes bibliographical references (p. 000) and index. ISBN 90-04-14387-4 (alk. paper) 1. Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20. 2. Christian hagiography. 3. Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20. Vita Pauli. 4. Paul, the Hermit, Saint, d. ca. 341. 5. Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20. Vita S. Hilarionis. 6. Hilary, Saint, Bishop of Poitiers, d. 367? 7. Jerome, Saint, d. 419 or 20. Vita Malchi monachi captivi. 8. Malchus, Saint. 9. Eusebius, of Caesarea, Bishop of Ceasarea, ca. 260–ca. 340. Onomasticon. 10. Bible—Geography. I. Title. II. Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchistentums; Bd. 58. III. Series. BR65.J476W45 2005 270.2'092—dc22 ISSN 0169-734X ISBN 90 04 14387 4 © Copyright 2005 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill Academic Publishers, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers and VSP. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Brill provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. printed in the netherlands For my father, who told me I would like Latin. CONTENTS Acknowledgements ...................................................................... Abbreviations .............................................................................. xi xiii Introduction ................................................................................ 1 Chapter One The Vita Pauli: The Holy Man in the Wilderness: Did Jerome appropriate Jewish Aggadah? .......... Introduction ................................................................................ 1.1. The Spiritual World of the vita Pauli: Martyrs and Ascetics ................................................................................ 1.1.1. Two martyr accounts—‘the crowns of roses and violets’ .............................