Introduction
'The voice of one calling in the desert'
Epistularum ad diversos liber : structure and contents
Hieronymus eremita : the textualized 'saint'
Rhetoric and reproach
An ascetic conversion story in letters
Introducing ... Jerome
A pope and his scholar
Jerome on Damasus on Jerome : revisionist reminiscences
The great commission
The correspondence : 'Hebrew verity' and Ambrosiaster
Claiming Marcella
Ad Marcellam epistularum liber : structure and contents
Hagiography, hermeneutics, Hebrew, and heretics
Sealing a spiritual and scholarly legacy
Expulsion from Rome
Theological controversy
The gathering storm : Blesilla's death
The beginning of the end
The 'disgrace of a false charge'
Paula's seducer?
The case against Jerome : trial and conviction
Exile of a prophet
The embattled ascetic saga
Jerome's personal, theological, and ecclesiastical profiles
Jerome's spiritual advice
Legitimization
The exegetical letters
Remembering Fabiola, defending Hebrew verity
From Bethlehem to the furthest reaches of Gaul
Ep . 120 to Hedibia (Bordeaux)
Ep . 121 to Algasia (Cahors?)
Cultivated image.