Susan Weingarten

Gebundenes Buch

The Saint's Saints

Hagiography and Geography in Jerome

Beschreibung

This is the first full-length study of Jerome's saints' "Lives," It analyses the way he combines classical, Christian and Jewish literary sources with his actual experience of the geography of late antique Palestine to re-write the biblical Holy Land as a new and Christian world.

Autor

Susan Weingarten is an Archaeologist and Historian living in Israel. She received her Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in 2001. Currently she belongs to the research team of the Sir Isaac Wolfson Chair of Jewish Studies, Tel Aviv University. She has published a number of papers on Jerome, pilgrimage traditions and the historical geography of the Holy Land.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 317
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 167mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 730g
• ISBN-13: 9789004143876
• ISBN-10: 9004143874
• Artikelnr.: 21685426