Commentary on St Jerome's Vita Malchi, A lean startup and the way in which

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Commentary on St Jerome's Vita Malchi, A lean startup and the way in whichThis volume offers a full analysis of one of the more intriguing works by a figure who is central to our understanding of Late Antiquity and early Christianity: the translator, exegete, and controversialist Jerome (c. 347 419 20AD). The neglected text of the Vita Malchi or, to use Jerome's title, the Captive Monk recounts the experiences of Malchus, a monk abducted by nomadic Saracens on the Eastern fringe of the fourth century Roman Empire, in what