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Statistical Approaches to Paulâs Letters
Distributions, Visualization, Cluster Mapping, and Topology
Series: - Digital Biblical Studies, Volume: 7
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This book demonstrates the utility of statistical and computational approaches to Paulâs letters. Such work helps resolve questions of authorship, describes and quantifies aspects of Paulâs style, and explains structural relationships within and between Paulâs letters. A series of linked case studies deploy a shared set of top-down stylistic features to differentially analyse Paulâs seven undisputed letters. Each chapter explores a different digital approach, co-written with a subject expert in this method. Chapters range from a history of the field to theoretical branches of mathematics, with each chapter providing a case study applying a different method to issues within Pauline Studies, with progressively more sophisticated statistical, computational, and mathematical models.
Paul Robertson, Ph.D. (2013, Brown University), is Senior Lecturer in Classics & Humanities and Director of Undergraduate Research at the University of New Hampshire, and Research Associate in the Department of New Testament and Related Literature at the University of Pretoria. His books explore comparing early Christian literature (2016), theorizing inter-religion (2019), selfhood and the Cyclops myth (2022), and the anthropology of belief (2024).
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: History of Stylometry and Digital Approaches to Pauline Style
1 A Poisson Analysis of Paulâs Letters
âThomas McCauley and Paul Robertson
2 Zipfâs Law and Paulâs Literary Techniques
âThomas McCauley and Paul Robertson
3 Mapping Paulâs Letters: Grouping, Identifying, and Plotting Stylistic Features
âAshley Roy and Paul Robertson
4 Analyzing Paulâs Letters: Cluster Mapping and Comparing across Features and Letters
âAshley Roy and Paul Robertson
5 Topology: Persistent Homology and Paulâs Letters
âJohn Lind and Paul Robertson
Conclusion
Appendices
References
Index
Acknowledgments
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: History of Stylometry and Digital Approaches to Pauline Style
Part 1 Describing and Distributing
1 A Poisson Analysis of Paulâs Letters
âThomas McCauley and Paul Robertson
2 Zipfâs Law and Paulâs Literary Techniques
âThomas McCauley and Paul Robertson
Part 2 Mapping and Visualizing
3 Mapping Paulâs Letters: Grouping, Identifying, and Plotting Stylistic Features
âAshley Roy and Paul Robertson
4 Analyzing Paulâs Letters: Cluster Mapping and Comparing across Features and Letters
âAshley Roy and Paul Robertson
Part 3 Abstracting and Theorizing
5 Topology: Persistent Homology and Paulâs Letters
âJohn Lind and Paul Robertson
Conclusion
Appendices
References
Index
This book is intended for scholars of both the Bible and computational approaches to literature, ranging from theologians to digital humanists to statisticians.