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The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship Megan Hale Williams
The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship
Megan Hale Williams
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.
312 pages, 12 halftones, 2 line drawings
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | October 7, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9780226215303 |
| Publishers | The University of Chicago Press |
| Pages | 312 |
| Dimensions | 153 × 228 × 18 mm · 456 g |
| Language | English |