Late Latin literature is characterized by numerous references to classical texts and authors. For Jerome of Stridon in particular, manual-hermeneutic research has revealed various intertextuality phenomena usually published in encyclopaedic collections of quotations. In this paper, we present a digital-hermeneutic analysis toolkit primarily designed to detect short text-text congruencies that have a high chance of being evaluated as an intentional quotation. We favour a mixed-methods approach, which is based on findings from manual-hermeneutic research. Our aim is to focus on Jerome's citation technique: Based on hermeneutic analysis of confirmed quotations, we formulate differentiated criteria that lead to a deeper understanding of the phenomenon of quoting and thus also have the potential to optimize our toolkit.
Schropp et al. (2024) studied this question.