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  • 28 - Jerome and Rufinus

  • from A - LITERARY GUIDE
  • Edited by Frances Young, University of Birmingham, Lewis Ayres, Emory University, Atlanta, Andrew Louth, University of Durham
  • Assisted by Augustine Casiday, University of Durham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    01 April 2004, pp 318-327

  • Summary

    Jerome obliged all future historians of Christian literature by compiling the first chronological list of Christian writers and their works, beginning with St Peter and ending with himself. Much of Jerome's entry in the De Viris Illustribus is devoted to works of biblical scholarship published or undertaken after his move to Bethlehem in 386, broadly divisible into the three categories of translation, exegesis, and aids to study. Classical literary theory taught that writers should seek to out do their predecessors in particular genres. Jerome generalized the principle, conceiving an entire anti-literature based on Scripture. Jerome's biblicism is the other side of his classicism. For many years Jerome of Stridon and Rufinus, a native of nearby Concordia in northern Italy, led parallel lives. Rufinus was as keen to associate the figure of the martyr with the office of Christian writer as Jerome had been, but is content as a rule to leave the association implicit.