The product of an international colloquium on Jerome, held at Cardiff University in 2006, Jerome of Stridon draws together contributions from some of the world's leading authorities on Jerome and offers an engaging overview of the current trends in Hieronymian scholarship. This book consists of eighteen papers which Cain and Lössl have grouped into three main themes. The opening division of the book is largely concerned with Jerome's literary self-presentation, as found in his epistles, hagiographical writings and polemical treatises. One of the threads linking together the six papers in this section is the persona that Jerome projects through these works. How did Jerome portray himself to a western Christian audience that in many cases held mixed opinions of the man? Translation and biblical exegesis were Jerome's greatest contribution to the western Church. The second section of this volume focuses on ‘the greatest biblical scholar of the ancient Latin church’ (p. 5). Seven papers address Jerome's philological and exegetical contributions, covering topics that range from Jerome's competence as a Hebrew scholar to the question of why he might have suppressed one of his earlier translations, a version of Origen's Homilies on Isaiah. The final section of this work gathers papers, arranged chronologically, that address the reception of Jerome. These papers range from studies of Jerome's contemporaries in early fifth-century Gaul to a reappraisal of Martin Luther as a student of Jerome. Here we find a Jerome who, although his authority and standing was questioned during his own lifetime, gained credibility and influence with the passing of the centuries. The papers in this volume are all well-written and the arrangement into three overarching themes gives the work more internal coherence than is typically found in conference proceedings. One of the more interesting aspects of this book is that it exemplifies how the study of ancient Christian authors is increasingly dominated by the concerns of classicists (usually travelling under the banner of late antique studies). Fifty years ago Jerome belonged almost exclusively to theologians and church historians; today his literary corpus is mined for what it can tell us about his context, his relationships with his contemporaries and the strategies he employed to secure and maintain his position in the ancient world. This is a volume written for (and by) late antique scholars and, as such, is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning field of Hieronymian studies.