The Monk and the Book
Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Making of A Christian Writer
2. Experiments of Exigesis
3. Interpretation and Construction of Jerome’s Authority
4. Jerome’s Library
5. Toward the Monastic Order of Books
6. The Book and the Voice
7. Readers and Patrons
Epilogue
Appendix: Chronology of Jerome’s Career
Bibliography
Index
"She has written a fascinating study, which provides a series of striking insights into the career of one of the most colorful and influential figures in Christian antiquity. Jerome’s Latin Bible would become the foundational text for the intellectual development of the West, providing words for the deepest aspirations and most intensely held convictions of an entire civilization. Williams’s book does much to illumine the circumstances in which that fundamental text was produced, and reminds us that great ideas, like great people, have particular origins, and their own complex settings."
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