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Answers about Jerome’s texts, translations, research tools, accounts, subscriptions, and editorial methods.

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Last reviewed: July 25, 2026

The project

About Jerome

What is Jerome?

Jerome is a tool for reading and studying ancient texts. It combines Greek and Latin works with translations, structured navigation, search, dictionaries, morphology, statistics, and intertextual research tools where those resources are available.

Who is Jerome for?

Jerome is intended for general readers, students, teachers, clergy, independent scholars, and academic researchers.

You do not need to know Greek or Latin to begin exploring the library, although Jerome is designed to encourage readers to remain close to the original text.

Why is it called Jerome?

The name refers to Saint Jerome, the translator of the Bible. Jerome is a multilingual project whose purpose is to help texts cross linguistic boundaries.

When was Jerome created?

The project was first envisioned during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Development began in late 2022, and the first usable version was completed in January 2023.

Who runs Jerome?

Jerome is created and maintained by Andrés Baldrich, a PhD candidate in Patristic Studies at the Universidad Católica de Cuyo in Argentina.

It is currently a one-person project.

Is Jerome affiliated with a university or church?

No. Jerome is an independent personal project and has no formal affiliation with a university, church, publisher, or research institution.

Is Jerome a Catholic project?

Jerome’s founder is Catholic, and his intellectual outlook naturally influences the project. He shares the traditional conviction that classical, biblical, and patristic texts remain valuable for intellectual and religious life.

The application itself is not designed to impose a catechism or require users to accept particular religious conclusions.

Reading

Reading and navigation

What can I read in Jerome?

Jerome contains classical, biblical, and patristic works, with an emphasis on Greek and Latin texts.

Coverage differs by author and collection. Some works have translations, morphology, dictionary connections, intertexts, or detailed citation structures, while others currently provide only the underlying text.

What is the difference between Reader, Library, Search, and Workspace?

Reader is where you read and compare passages.

Library is where you browse collections, authors, and works.

Search is where you find words, phrases, lemmas, authors, works, and passages across the corpus.

Workspace contains personal material such as saved reading, notes, and highlights. It requires a registered account.

Can I read the original and a translation together?

Yes, when compatible versions are available.

Alignment quality varies. A translation may divide sentences or paragraphs differently from its original, and some imported works have imperfect segmentation.

Does Jerome work on mobile devices?

Yes. Jerome includes responsive reading layouts and mobile navigation.

Dense comparisons and advanced research tools naturally have more room on a desktop or tablet, but ordinary reading is designed to remain usable on a phone.

Sources

Texts and translations

Where do the texts come from?

Jerome has used source files from projects including Perseus and Corpus Corporum, together with other classical, biblical, and patristic collections.

Whenever possible, Jerome preserves information about the source and version of each text.

Are all the ancient texts in the public domain?

The ancient works themselves are in the public domain. Particular modern editions, digital transcriptions, translations, annotations, and metadata can have separate rights or licensing conditions.

The source information displayed for a version should be consulted before redistributing it.

Does Jerome provide critical editions?

Not necessarily.

Jerome brings together texts from several digital sources and provides a unified reading and research environment. A version should be treated as a critical edition only when it is explicitly identified as such.

For textual criticism, publication, or a disputed reading, consult the relevant scholarly edition and apparatus.

Why can one work have several versions?

A work may have multiple original-language witnesses, digital sources, normalized versions, or translations.

Jerome keeps those versions distinguishable rather than silently blending them into a single text.

Are Jerome’s Spanish translations made by humans?

Most Spanish translations in Jerome are generated with Google Gemini and are identified with names such as Spanish-Gemini.

They are intended to help readers enter difficult texts, but they can contain mistranslations, omissions, overinterpretations, or inconsistent terminology. Important passages should be checked against the original.

Which translation does Jerome use for the Bible?

Most biblical material currently uses a Reina-Valera translation rather than a Gemini-generated translation. The specific version and source are identified in the Reader where available.

The exact version shown should be identified in the Reader.

Will Jerome offer translations in other languages?

Jerome is multilingual by design, and additional translation languages are part of its long-term direction. No particular language or completion date should be assumed until the relevant versions appear in the library.

How can I report a textual or translation error?

Email baldrichandres@gmail.com with the page URL and an explanation of the problem.

When possible, include the proposed correction and the source or edition supporting it.

Research tools

Words, search, and research

What happens when I select a Greek or Latin word?

Where word-level data are available, Jerome can show the word’s lemma, grammatical analysis, and dictionary information.

The available information depends on the work and on whether its text has been successfully tokenized and annotated.

Is the morphological analysis always correct?

No.

Morphological analysis is imported or computationally generated and can be ambiguous or wrong. Names, unusual spellings, damaged texts, enclitics, and forms that allow several grammatical interpretations are especially difficult.

Treat the analysis as assistance rather than as an infallible grammatical judgment.

Why does one work have morphology while another does not?

Morphology is a derived analytical layer built separately from the underlying text. A work can therefore be readable before its token alignment, morphology, dictionary data, or statistics have been fully processed.

What can I search without an account?

Anonymous visitors can read the corpus and use basic text search within public limits.

Some personal features require a free account. Advanced search and other research tools require the relevant paid plan.

What does a free account add?

A free registered account adds access to the personal Workspace, including saved research functions such as notes and highlights. It also receives broader previews and working limits than anonymous access in some parts of the application.

A free account does not unlock full dictionaries, morphology, advanced search, statistics, or full intertext tools.

What is basic search?

Basic search includes ordinary text and phrase searches, exact forms, normalized forms, common metadata filters, Boolean combinations such as AND, OR, and NOT, and simple suffix wildcards.

What counts as advanced search?

Advanced search includes functions such as:

  • lemma search;
  • morphological filters;
  • entity filters;
  • proximity searches such as NEAR;
  • intertext-restricted searches;
  • statistics-based search scopes;
  • multilingual Greek-and-Latin searches;
  • fielded lemma or form wildcards.

Advanced search requires the Pro plan or higher.

What is multilingual search?

Multilingual search allows research across Greek and Latin material within a unified search workflow.

It is a Pro-level feature.

Why is advanced Latin search important to Jerome?

Large Latin corpora are often less well served by modern search interfaces than major Greek collections.

Advanced search across classical and especially patristic Latin is one of Jerome’s strongest intended differences.

What are intertexts?

Intertexts are relationships among passages, including explicit quotations, references, verbal parallels, allusions, echoes, and commentary on another text.

Are all intertexts reviewed by a scholar?

No.

Some relationships are imported from source material, some are entered or reviewed editorially, and others are computational suggestions.

A detected similarity is evidence for investigation; it is not automatic proof that one author knowingly quoted another.

What do the statistics mean?

Jerome’s statistics summarize features such as word and lemma frequency, distribution, parts of speech, and morphological patterns within an author, work, language, or corpus selection.

Results depend on the quality of the underlying text, tokenization, and lemmatization.

Does Jerome offer API access?

General API access is not currently offered.

Jerome may provide built-in citation or export functions according to the user’s plan, but this does not authorize automated harvesting or unrestricted bulk access to the service.

Access

Plans and subscriptions

Will the texts always remain free?

Jerome intends to keep the underlying ancient texts freely readable.

Paid plans support the computation and infrastructure placed on top of them: dictionaries, morphology, larger search capacity, advanced search, statistics, exports, intertexts, and future research systems.

Jerome charges for computation, not for the existence of the texts.

Why does Jerome charge a subscription?

Running a large textual platform requires hosting, storage, development, data processing, authentication, search infrastructure, and continuing editorial work.

Some analytical functions are also significantly more computationally expensive than simply displaying a passage.

Why is Jerome priced relatively cheaply?

Jerome is deliberately designed with the budgets of students, particularly Latin American students, in mind.

The goal is economic sustainability without adopting the pricing of institutional databases that is beyond the reach of many independent readers.

What are the current plans?

Free provides corpus reading, basic search, and limited previews.

Reader adds dictionaries, morphology, and higher reading and search limits.

Pro adds advanced search, multilingual search, statistics, and larger exports.

Scholar adds full intertextual research and the largest working limits.

The Subscription page contains the current prices and complete feature comparison.

Do paid subscriptions renew automatically?

Yes. Paid subscriptions renew until canceled.

The billing interval, amount, currency, taxes, and renewal terms shown during checkout apply to the purchase.

How do I cancel or change my subscription?

Use the Billing section of your Jerome account when the relevant controls are available.

For assistance, email baldrichandres@gmail.com.

Cancellation normally prevents the next renewal while leaving paid access active until the end of the current billing period.

Can I request a refund?

Refunds may be granted in circumstances such as a duplicate charge, billing error, unauthorized purchase, or a qualifying Jerome-side technical failure.

See the Refund Policy for the complete terms or email baldrichandres@gmail.com.

Are discounts available to students, teachers, clergy, or institutions?

No special discount programme is currently available.

Classroom discounts may be introduced in the future, but they should not be assumed until they are formally announced.

Scholarly use

Accuracy and scholarly use

Can I rely on Jerome for academic research?

Jerome is intended to support serious study, but it is not a replacement for scholarly judgment or an appropriate critical edition.

Important quotations, textual claims, translations, morphological interpretations, and intertextual conclusions should be checked against the identified source.

How should I cite Jerome?

You may cite the Jerome website and the URL of the relevant work or passage.

A useful citation should include, when available:

  • the ancient author and work;
  • the passage citation;
  • the version or translation used;
  • “Jerome”;
  • the page URL;
  • the date accessed.

Users should also cite the underlying edition or source when it is important to the argument.

Is Jerome open source?

No. Jerome is not currently an open-source software project.

It develops its own systems for processing, structuring, searching, and analysing texts. Public access to the ancient texts should not be confused with an open-source licence for Jerome’s software or analytical systems.

Can I scrape or download the entire corpus?

No. Automated scraping, bulk extraction, quota avoidance, and harvesting outside the functions explicitly supplied by Jerome are not permitted.

This service-level restriction is separate from the copyright status of an underlying ancient work.

Support

Privacy, accessibility, and support

What personal information does Jerome collect?

Jerome may collect account details, subscription status, technical and usage logs, search and reader interactions, and messages sent to support.

Payment providers process full payment-card information. See the Privacy Policy for the current details.

Does Jerome sell personal data?

No. Jerome does not sell personal data.

Information may be shared with providers needed for hosting, authentication, email, analytics, payments, fraud prevention, and legal compliance.

Can I delete my account?

Account-deletion requests may be sent to baldrichandres@gmail.com.

Some billing, security, or legal records may need to be retained for a limited period.

Which interface languages are supported?

The interface currently supports English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Availability of ancient texts and modern translations varies by work.

In which languages can I contact support?

Correspondence is welcome in English, Spanish, Italian, or German.

Is Jerome accessible?

Jerome includes accessibility-oriented features such as semantic page structure, skip links, keyboard-accessible controls, responsive layouts, adjustable reading size, and light, dark, and sepia themes where implemented.

Jerome has not yet undergone a complete independent accessibility audit and does not currently claim complete conformity with a particular WCAG level.

Accessibility problems may be reported to baldrichandres@gmail.com.

How quickly does Jerome respond to email?

Messages are normally reviewed daily, although a full response can take longer when a question requires technical investigation or textual research.

How do I report a technical problem?

Email baldrichandres@gmail.com and include:

  • the page URL;
  • what you expected to happen;
  • what happened instead;
  • your browser and device;
  • a screenshot, when useful.

Please do not send passwords, payment-card numbers, or authentication codes.

How often is this FAQ reviewed?

The FAQ should be checked after substantial changes to plans, billing, policies, access rules, corpus sources, or major research tools.

The review date at the top shows when the answers were last checked.