{"product_id":"lapologie-de-jerome-contre-rufin-9789004094574","title":"L'apologie de Jérôme contre Rufin","description":"In the three books of his \u003ci\u003eContra Rufinum\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003ePeri Archôn\u003c\/i\u003e they both translated in competition) as well as Jewish (the biblical \u003ci\u003ehebraica veritas\u003c\/i\u003e which Jerome championed). They were also at variance on the appreciation of profane culture (the Latin classics). Jerome's \u003ci\u003eContra Rufinum\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\nThis 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 \u003ci\u003eContra Rufinum\u003c\/i\u003e 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.","brand":"Pierre Lardet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48308075266299,"sku":"9789004094574","price":478.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9789004094574.jpg?v=1772491039","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/lapologie-de-jerome-contre-rufin-9789004094574","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}