L’utero dell’anima. Note su esegesi e corpo femminile in Gerolamo[The Uterus and the Soul. Notes on Female Body and Exegesis in Jerome]
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The article aims to shed light on Jerome’s exegetical use of images borrowed from female physiology, such as menstruation and breastfeeding. Starting from the preface of the Letter 65 to Principia and extending the analysis to a corpus of texts composed in the last quarter of the 4th century CE and in the first decade of the 5th century CE (Letter 22 to Eustochium, Commentary on the Galatians, Letter 66 to Pammachius, Commentary on Matthew, Commentary on Amos, Commentary on Isaiah, Homilies on the Psalms), the attempt is made to show how Jerome relies on and develops these images, drawn from different sources such as Origen and Tertullian, Philo and Athanasius, to describe virginity and chastity as a spiritual motherhood: as mothers, those who devote themselves to ascetic life are exhorted to daily conceive and give birth to the Christ, thus replicating the model of Mary. In Jerome’s eyes, such exegetical elaboration both meets the needs of an educated audience, such as his Roman circle of friends and patrons, and fits his anti-heretical stance.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".