| Consoling Heliodorus: A Commentary on Jerome, Letter 60 Contributor(s): Scourfield, J. H. D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0198147228 ISBN-13: 9780198147220 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $266.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - Self-help | Death, Grief, Bereavement - Biography & Autobiography | Religious |
| Dewey: 270.209 |
| LCCN: 91030777 |
| Series: Oxford Classical Monographs |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.12 lbs) 282 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Death/Dying - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Jerome (c. 347-420 A.D.) is best remembered as the author of the Vulgate translation of the Bible. But he was also an untiring letter writer. Among the many letters which have survived are several written to friends who had suffered recent bereavement. In the most impressive of these, Letter 60, Jerome consoles Heliodorus, Bishop of Altinum in north-east Italy, on the early death of his young nephew Nepotianus. The letter is composed from a thoroughly Christian perspective, but it belongs to a tradition of consolatory literature that reaches far back into the pagan world. In this commentary, Scourfield places the letter in the context of this tradition, showing how in the late fourth century a highly literate Christian author could take pagan ideas and put them to Christian use. The commentary also includes a full discussion of matters of language and style, theology and exegesis, as well as the historical background. There is a freshly revised text, as well as a completely new translation of the Letter. |