Andrew Cain
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3979910 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Andrew Cain |
| NOMBRES | Andrew |
| APELLIDO | Cain |
| FIRMA | CAIN A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8820-140X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Porphyry’s Life of Pythagoras and Athanasius’ Life of Antony
A little over a century ago, it was discovered that Athanasius’ Life of Antony echoes Porphyry’s Life of Pythagoras in two different passages, and scholars have since debated the implications of this clear intertextual linkage. Building on these initial findings, the present article adduces a previously undiscovered third echo of the Porphyrian Life and argues that Athanasius deploys this intertext in order simultaneously to subvert Porphyry’s id…
Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority
In the late fourth and early fifth centuries, during a fifty-year stretch sometimes dubbed a Pauline “renaissance” of the western church, six different authors produced over four dozen commentaries in Latin on Paul’s epistles. Among them was Jerome, who commented on four epistles (Galatians, Ephesians, Titus, Philemon) in 386 after recently having relocated to Bethlehem from Rome. His commentaries occupy a time-honored place in the centuries-long…
Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority
Between East and West
This chapter interrogates the Latin sources of Jerome’s Pauline commentaries, an important but often neglected component of their literary pedigree. It begins by taking stock of how he handles classical literary references and it finds that he draws from an eclectic spread of texts. In the remaining bulk of the chapter his numerous unattributed borrowings—virtually all of which have gone undetected by modern scholars—from the writings of Tertulli…
Rufinus of Aquileia’s Historia ecclesiastica and Historia monachorum in Aegypto
The Historia monachorum in Aegypto is an anomaly among the vast corpus of translations produced by Rufinus of Aquileia, not least because it represents his only known experiment with the literary genre of monastic hagiography. This article explores the question of why he undertook this project at all and considers this issue of authorial intention in the broader context of Rufinus’ work as a church historian. In particular, I propose that he envi…
Rufinus' Historia monachorum in Aegypto and the Promulgation of Evagrian Ascetic Teaching
Around 403 Rufinus composed his Historia monachorum in Aegypto, a Latin translation of Ἡ κατ' Αἴγυπτον τῶν μοναχῶν ἱστορία ("Inquiry about the Monks of Egypt"). This Greek work, authored anonymously years earlier by one of the monks in his monastery on the Mount of Olives, chronicles the author's months-long travels throughout Egypt, where he met notable monastic personalities and recorded for posterity their deeds and teachings. In rendering the…
The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto
In September 394, seven monks set out from their monastery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem and began making their way to Egypt, where they would spend the next several months visiting an array of monastic celebrities, from the Thebaid in the south to the delta town of Diolcos in the north. Not long after their return, one of them anonymously composed in Greek a lively hagiographic account of their experiences and entitled it “Inquiry about th…
Literary Influences and Intertexts
This chapter identifies the literary antecedents and intertexts of the Greek Historia monachorum. No phraseological echoes of either classical Greek literature or pre-fourth-century Christian literature are evident in his prose. His prose is, however, larded with biblical quotations, paraphrases, and allusions, and representative case-studies highlight his sophisticated handling of subtexts and intertexts from the Bible. Likewise, it is shown tha…
Style
Scholars traditionally have denigrated the Greek prose style of the Historia monachorum as being simplistic and lacking in refinement. In this chapter I use philological analysis to demonstrate that his prose actually is rich in rhetorical embellishment and registers the same stylistic pretensions that are associated with the literary aesthetic of the Second Sophistic. What is more, I show that the author consistently incorporates into his senten…
The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto
The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto was one of the most widely read and disseminated Greek hagiographic texts during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. To this day it remains, alongside Athanasius' Life of Antony, one of the core primary sources for fourth-century Egyptian monasticism as well as one of the most fascinating, yet perplexing, pieces of monastic hagiography to survive from the entire patristic period. However, until now it has …
Two Allusions to Terence, Eunuchus 579 in Jerome
During the Late Roman Empire Terence was the most revered and the most quoted classical Latin poet after Virgil. Among authors both pagan and Christian, none (to judge, of course, by the surviving written record) made as frequent or as creative literary use of his comedies as Jerome, one of the most accomplished polymaths in all of Latin antiquity. In his estimation Terence ranked, alongside Homer, Menander and Virgil, as one of the greatest of a…
The Greek Historia monachorum in Aegypto and Athanasius' Life of Antony
This article examines possible literary sources underlying the Greek Historia monachorum in Aegypto, which was composed anonymously in the last decade of the fourth century, and argues that the Life of Antony, which Athanasius had released some forty years earlier, exercised a demonstrable influence over it
Three Further Echoes of Lactantius in Jerome
Jerome was very familiar with the writings of Lactantius, yet strikingly few instances of his appropriation of specifically Lactantian phraseology have been brought to light. The present study adduces three new verbal echoes in three different writings to show that Jerome’s literary imitation of the North African Father was slightly more extensive than has hitherto been thought
Gregory of Elvira, Lactantius, and the Reception of the De ira Dei
Gregory of Elvira's indebtedness to the Latin patristic tradition has been copiously documented. However, until now no scholar has been able to prove that he worked from Lactantius. This article adduces two clear reminiscences of Lactantius in Gregory's homilies, one of which is the only extended quotation from the De ira Dei to surface in all of Latin patristic literature
The Letters of Jerome
In the centuries following his death, Jerome was venerated as a saint and as one of the four Doctors of the Latin church. In his own lifetime, however, he was a severely marginalized figure whose intellectual and spiritual authority did not go unchallenged, at times not even by those in his inner circle. His ascetic theology was rejected by the vast majority of Christian contemporaries, his Hebrew scholarship was called into question by the leadi…
The letters of Jerome
Conclusion
In this concluding chapter, the main points of the argument presented throughout the book are summarized and expanded upon. Jerome's contributions to the Latin epistolographic tradition are set into relief and the implications of his self‐presentational strategies for a more nuanced understanding of his life and work are explored.
Jerome’s Epistula CXVII on the Subintroductae
Jerome of Stridon
his book assembles eighteen studies by internationally renowned scholars that epitomize the latest and best advances in research on the greatest polymath in Latin Christian antiquity, Jerome of Stridon (c.346-420) traditionally known as "Saint Jerome." It is divided into three sections which explore topics such as the underlying motivations behind Jerome's work as a hagiographer, letter-writer, theological controversialist, translator and exegete…
Liber Manet
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Miracles, Martyrs, and Arians
Liber Manet
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Three Further Echoes of Lactantius in Jerome
Jerome was very familiar with the writings of Lactantius, yet strikingly few instances of his appropriation of specifically Lactantian phraseology have been brought to light. The present study adduces three new verbal echoes in three different writings to show that Jerome’s literary imitation of the North African Father was slightly more extensive than has hitherto been thought
Miracles, Martyrs, and Arians
Liber Manet
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Letters of Jerome
In the centuries following his death, Jerome was venerated as a saint and as one of the four Doctors of the Latin church. In his own lifetime, however, he was a severely marginalized figure whose intellectual and spiritual authority did not go unchallenged, at times not even by those in his inner circle. His ascetic theology was rejected by the vast majority of Christian contemporaries, his Hebrew scholarship was called into question by the leadi…
The letters of Jerome
Conclusion
In this concluding chapter, the main points of the argument presented throughout the book are summarized and expanded upon. Jerome's contributions to the Latin epistolographic tradition are set into relief and the implications of his self‐presentational strategies for a more nuanced understanding of his life and work are explored.
Jerome’s Epistula CXVII on the Subintroductae
Jerome of Stridon
his book assembles eighteen studies by internationally renowned scholars that epitomize the latest and best advances in research on the greatest polymath in Latin Christian antiquity, Jerome of Stridon (c.346-420) traditionally known as "Saint Jerome." It is divided into three sections which explore topics such as the underlying motivations behind Jerome's work as a hagiographer, letter-writer, theological controversialist, translator and exegete…
Three Further Echoes of Lactantius in Jerome
Jerome was very familiar with the writings of Lactantius, yet strikingly few instances of his appropriation of specifically Lactantian phraseology have been brought to light. The present study adduces three new verbal echoes in three different writings to show that Jerome’s literary imitation of the North African Father was slightly more extensive than has hitherto been thought
Gregory of Elvira, Lactantius, and the Reception of the De ira Dei
Gregory of Elvira's indebtedness to the Latin patristic tradition has been copiously documented. However, until now no scholar has been able to prove that he worked from Lactantius. This article adduces two clear reminiscences of Lactantius in Gregory's homilies, one of which is the only extended quotation from the De ira Dei to surface in all of Latin patristic literature
Two Allusions to Terence, Eunuchus 579 in Jerome
During the Late Roman Empire Terence was the most revered and the most quoted classical Latin poet after Virgil. Among authors both pagan and Christian, none (to judge, of course, by the surviving written record) made as frequent or as creative literary use of his comedies as Jerome, one of the most accomplished polymaths in all of Latin antiquity. In his estimation Terence ranked, alongside Homer, Menander and Virgil, as one of the greatest of a…
The Greek Historia monachorum in Aegypto and Athanasius' Life of Antony
This article examines possible literary sources underlying the Greek Historia monachorum in Aegypto, which was composed anonymously in the last decade of the fourth century, and argues that the Life of Antony, which Athanasius had released some forty years earlier, exercised a demonstrable influence over it
The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto
In September 394, seven monks set out from their monastery on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem and began making their way to Egypt, where they would spend the next several months visiting an array of monastic celebrities, from the Thebaid in the south to the delta town of Diolcos in the north. Not long after their return, one of them anonymously composed in Greek a lively hagiographic account of their experiences and entitled it “Inquiry about th…
Literary Influences and Intertexts
This chapter identifies the literary antecedents and intertexts of the Greek Historia monachorum. No phraseological echoes of either classical Greek literature or pre-fourth-century Christian literature are evident in his prose. His prose is, however, larded with biblical quotations, paraphrases, and allusions, and representative case-studies highlight his sophisticated handling of subtexts and intertexts from the Bible. Likewise, it is shown tha…
Style
Scholars traditionally have denigrated the Greek prose style of the Historia monachorum as being simplistic and lacking in refinement. In this chapter I use philological analysis to demonstrate that his prose actually is rich in rhetorical embellishment and registers the same stylistic pretensions that are associated with the literary aesthetic of the Second Sophistic. What is more, I show that the author consistently incorporates into his senten…
The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto
The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto was one of the most widely read and disseminated Greek hagiographic texts during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. To this day it remains, alongside Athanasius' Life of Antony, one of the core primary sources for fourth-century Egyptian monasticism as well as one of the most fascinating, yet perplexing, pieces of monastic hagiography to survive from the entire patristic period. However, until now it has …
Rufinus' Historia monachorum in Aegypto and the Promulgation of Evagrian Ascetic Teaching
Around 403 Rufinus composed his Historia monachorum in Aegypto, a Latin translation of Ἡ κατ' Αἴγυπτον τῶν μοναχῶν ἱστορία ("Inquiry about the Monks of Egypt"). This Greek work, authored anonymously years earlier by one of the monks in his monastery on the Mount of Olives, chronicles the author's months-long travels throughout Egypt, where he met notable monastic personalities and recorded for posterity their deeds and teachings. In rendering the…
Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority
In the late fourth and early fifth centuries, during a fifty-year stretch sometimes dubbed a Pauline “renaissance” of the western church, six different authors produced over four dozen commentaries in Latin on Paul’s epistles. Among them was Jerome, who commented on four epistles (Galatians, Ephesians, Titus, Philemon) in 386 after recently having relocated to Bethlehem from Rome. His commentaries occupy a time-honored place in the centuries-long…
Jerome's Commentaries on the Pauline Epistles and the Architecture of Exegetical Authority
Between East and West
This chapter interrogates the Latin sources of Jerome’s Pauline commentaries, an important but often neglected component of their literary pedigree. It begins by taking stock of how he handles classical literary references and it finds that he draws from an eclectic spread of texts. In the remaining bulk of the chapter his numerous unattributed borrowings—virtually all of which have gone undetected by modern scholars—from the writings of Tertulli…
Rufinus of Aquileia’s Historia ecclesiastica and Historia monachorum in Aegypto
The Historia monachorum in Aegypto is an anomaly among the vast corpus of translations produced by Rufinus of Aquileia, not least because it represents his only known experiment with the literary genre of monastic hagiography. This article explores the question of why he undertook this project at all and considers this issue of authorial intention in the broader context of Rufinus’ work as a church historian. In particular, I propose that he envi…
Porphyry’s Life of Pythagoras and Athanasius’ Life of Antony
A little over a century ago, it was discovered that Athanasius’ Life of Antony echoes Porphyry’s Life of Pythagoras in two different passages, and scholars have since debated the implications of this clear intertextual linkage. Building on these initial findings, the present article adduces a previously undiscovered third echo of the Porphyrian Life and argues that Athanasius deploys this intertext in order simultaneously to subvert Porphyry’s id…
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