Towards a differentiated digital-hermeneutic analysis tool for the detection of short quotations using the example of the Church Father Jerome

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.