This article presents an overview of Jerome’s multifarious use of biblical texts in constructing female gender model. The Bible is referred to by him on different occasions and with various aims. I firstly deal with works pertaining to the Origenist controversy, among which the earliest one is an exegesis of a whole biblical text, Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians. Then, I consider quotations of single verses or passages, in order to sketch the use of the Bible in polemical works (esp. Adversus Iovinianum) and in epistolary portraits of cultured ascetic women. As we shall see, sometimes it is life that exerts its influence over the interpretation of the Bible, and sometimes it is the Bible that seemingly shapes life and its description.
Not only ianua diaboli. Jerome, the Bible and the Construction of a Female Gender Model / P.F. Moretti - In: Papers presented at the sixteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2011, vol. 15: Cappadocian Writers ; The Second Half of the Fourth Century / [a cura di] M. Vinzent. - Leuven : Peeters, 2013. - ISBN 978-90-429-3000-1. - pp. 367-383 (( Intervento presentato al 16. convegno International Conference on Patristic Studies tenutosi a Oxford nel 2011.
Not only ianua diaboli. Jerome, the Bible and the Construction of a Female Gender Model
P.F. MorettiPrimo
2013
Abstract
This article presents an overview of Jerome’s multifarious use of biblical texts in constructing female gender model. The Bible is referred to by him on different occasions and with various aims. I firstly deal with works pertaining to the Origenist controversy, among which the earliest one is an exegesis of a whole biblical text, Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians. Then, I consider quotations of single verses or passages, in order to sketch the use of the Bible in polemical works (esp. Adversus Iovinianum) and in epistolary portraits of cultured ascetic women. As we shall see, sometimes it is life that exerts its influence over the interpretation of the Bible, and sometimes it is the Bible that seemingly shapes life and its description.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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