Jerome’s Life of Paul the First Hermit is a sophisticated, highly literary work. Yet Jerome realistically depicted a woman raping a man. That’s real rape. … Read the post learned Jerome described rape in Life of Paul the First Hermit
The captive maiden of Deuteronomy 21:10-14 is no mere metaphor. Ausonius’s Bissula & Jerome in his letters followed Rabbi Akiba in understanding. … Read the post Ausonius’s Bissula & Jerome’s captive maiden: Rabbi Akiba understood
Jerome disparaged Homerocentones & Vergiliocentones, alluding to Proba’s Virgilian cento. Boccaccio and followers restitched Jerome’s words to praise Proba. … Read the post Homerocentones & Vergiliocentones from Jerome to Boccaccio and beyond
Luxorius’s Paula, an eagerly remarrying widow, is a particularly perverse counterpart to Jerome’s Paula. … Read the post Luxorius refigured Jerome’s patron Paula as oft-remarrying widow
Mary of Egypt, the Former Harlot, trumped Jerome’s Life of Paul the First Hermit in competition for ascetic and spiritual primacy among desert hermits. … Read the post penitent harlot Mary of Egypt victorious in competition among hermits
Jerome ironically presented news-seeking in the Life of Paul the First Hermit. The Life of Mary of Egypt moved that game to a higher spiritual level. … Read the post news-seeking in Jerome’s Life of Paul the First Hermit
Of Jerome’s 123 surviving letters, 36% are addressed to women. Jerome in his surviving letters addressed by name 20 different women. … Read the post Saint Jerome’s letters shows profound concern for women
Seeing Jerome in the persona of Origen obscures Jerome and Galen’s common position in Greek and Latin, Christian and non-Christian knowledge competition. … Read the post beyond Origen: Jerome, spiritual doctor in Galen’s persona
Written by Jerome from his personal perspective as a man, Theophrastus’ Golden Book on Marriage inconceivably tells women what men want. … Read the post Theophrastus’ Golden Book on Marriage: Jerome’s creativity
In 393, in his lengthy treatise Adversus Jovinianum, Jerome confuted Jovinian’s position on marriage for women. Jerome was a brilliant satirist. … Read the post Jerome’s Adversus Jovinianum: method in madness about marriage