Letter 29: An explanation of the Hebrew words Ephod bad 1 Samuel 2:18 and Teraphim Judges 17:5. Written at Rome to Marcella, also at Rome A.D. 384.
Letter 29: To Marcella (384 AD)
[A short scholarly note explaining two Hebrew terms: "Ephod bad" (1 Samuel 2:18) and "Teraphim" (Judges 17:5). Written at Rome, this belongs to the series of Hebrew-language tutorials Jerome provided to Marcella's circle of aristocratic women on the Aventine — women who took their biblical studies with a seriousness that put most of the Roman clergy to shame, as Jerome was only too happy to point out.]
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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