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Letters
A large pastoral and scholarly correspondence dealing with ascetic life, biblical study, and church disputes.
Jeromelate 4th to early 5th century4th century
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Metadata
Overview
- Category
- Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers
- Genre
- Epistle
- Tradition
- Western
- Region
- Bethlehem and Rome
- Original language
- Latin
- Date certainty
- Range
Historical context
Manuscript context
This text is represented here through direct Latin witness material associated with Jerome and its circulation in Bethlehem and Rome.
Themes
Controversies
- Origenist controversies
- Ascetic controversies
Source links
Primary translation
www.newadvent.org · Source quality: Primary · Last checked: 2026-03-01
Archive mirror
web.archive.org · Source quality: Archive · Last checked: 2026-03-01
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Witness status: Direct witness
Open normalized witness textEpistolae
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (see per-file TEI headers)