L'Apologie de Jérôme Contre Rufin: Un Commentaire - Couverture rigide

Lardet, Pierre

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004094571 ISBN 13 : 9789004094574

Editeur : Brill, 1993

Synopsis

In the three books of his Contra Rufinum, a work dating back to his mature period (401-402), Jerome (ca 347-420) fought against his erstwhile friend turned rival, Rufinus: the two Latin monks, one settled in Bethlehem, the other in Jerusalem, had come to confront each other on such issues as the timeliness and ways (translation, commentary...) of transmitting an Oriental heritage to the West, Greek (in particular the works of Origen [ca. 185-ca. 253], whose Peri Archôn they both translated in competition) as well as Jewish (the biblical hebraica veritas which Jerome championed). They were also at variance on the appreciation of profane culture (the Latin classics). Jerome's Contra Rufinum is a masterpiece by a brilliant polemist and an important document as to a knowledge of the actors and the vicissitudes of a controversy which mobilised many Christians, Eastern and Western alike, on the eve of the sacking of Rome by the Barbarians.
This commentary seeks to analyse the treatise in all its facets (historical and theological, philological and rhetorical), and to elucidate its connections with the different traditions (classical, biblical, patristic) to which it belongs. The Contra Rufinum thus turns out to be a remarkable vantage point from which to illuminate the entire corpus of an author whose work, spread over nearly half a century, was immensely influential during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

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À propos de l'auteur

Pierre Lardet (CNRS) has specialized in Renaissance studies and published articles on Julius Caesar Scaliger, on the Italian and French translatio of Aristotle's Rhetoric, and on Jean Bodin's Methodus. He is also editor and translator of the Contra Rufinum for the Corpus Christianorum and the Sources Chrétiennes,

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: français
• ISBN 10: 9004094571
• ISBN 13: 9789004094574
• Reliure: Cuir/luxe
• Nombre de pages: 600
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