Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Archbishop Theodore
- 3 Abbot Hadrian
- 4 Theodore and Hadrian in England
- 5 The sources of the Canterbury biblical commentaries
- 6 The nature of the Canterbury biblical commentaries
- 7 The manuscripts
- Texts and translations
- Commentary to the texts
- Appendix I Additional manuscript witnesses to the Milan biblical commentaries
- Appendix II Two metrological treatises from the school of Canterbury
- Fig. 1 Cilicia and Syria
- Fig. 2 Constantinople in the seventh century
- Fig. 3 Churches and monasteries of seventh-century Rome
- Fig. 4 Cyrenaica and the Pentapolis
- Fig. 5 Campania and the Bay of Naples
- Fig. 6 Palestine
- Bibliography
- Index of Old English words quoted in the texts
- Index of Greek words quoted in the texts
- Index of names cited in the texts
- General index
Commentary to the texts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Archbishop Theodore
- 3 Abbot Hadrian
- 4 Theodore and Hadrian in England
- 5 The sources of the Canterbury biblical commentaries
- 6 The nature of the Canterbury biblical commentaries
- 7 The manuscripts
- Texts and translations
- Commentary to the texts
- Appendix I Additional manuscript witnesses to the Milan biblical commentaries
- Appendix II Two metrological treatises from the school of Canterbury
- Fig. 1 Cilicia and Syria
- Fig. 2 Constantinople in the seventh century
- Fig. 3 Churches and monasteries of seventh-century Rome
- Fig. 4 Cyrenaica and the Pentapolis
- Fig. 5 Campania and the Bay of Naples
- Fig. 6 Palestine
- Bibliography
- Index of Old English words quoted in the texts
- Index of Greek words quoted in the texts
- Index of names cited in the texts
- General index
Summary
Rufinus of Aquileia (d. 410) was indeed a detractor of Jerome (on Rufinus in general, see Patrology, ed. Di Berardino IV, 247–54 and EEC II, 746). Although at an earlier stage of their lives Jerome and Rufinus had been close friends, differences of opinion concerning the theology of Origen (whose Greek writings both had translated into Latin) erupted in 399 into a virulent controversy. Rufinus composed an Apologia contra Hieronymum in two books (CCSL 20, 37–123); Jerome replied in 401 with a two-book Apologia aduersus libros Rufini (PL 23, 397–456). When Rufinus received a copy of Jerome's work, he wrote, apparently by return of post, a savage personal letter which unfortunately has not survived, but whose outline is known from Jerome's equally savage reply (written in 402) which is usually printed as the third book of his Apologia aduersus libros Rufini (PL 23, 457–92). On the controversy, see Cavallera, Saint Jérôme I, 193–286 and Kelly, Jerome, pp. 227–58. The Commentator may have been referring to these works, or to others now lost (see below).
Cassianusque. This is presumably John Cassian (c. 360 – c. 450), the so-called founder of western monasticism: see P. Munz, ‘John Cassian’, JEH 11 (I960), 1–22, O. Chadwick, John Cassian, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 1968), Patrology, ed. Di Berardino IV, 512–23 and EEC I, 149.
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