Statistical Approaches to Paul's Letters : Distributions, Visualization, Cluster Mapping, and Topology (Digital Biblical Studies)

Robertson, Paul

Brill（2025/09発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 210 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004741355

Full Description

This book demonstrates the utility of statistical and computational approaches to Paul's letters. Such work helps resolve questions of authorship, describes and quantifies aspects of Paul's style, and explains structural relationships within and between Paul's letters. A series of linked case studies deploy a shared set of top-down stylistic features to differentially analyse Paul's 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.

Contents

Preface

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 Paul's Letters

 Thomas McCauley and Paul Robertson

2 Zipf's Law and Paul's Literary Techniques

 Thomas McCauley and Paul Robertson

Part 2 Mapping and Visualizing

3 Mapping Paul's Letters: Grouping, Identifying, and Plotting Stylistic Features

 Ashley Roy and Paul Robertson

4 Analyzing Paul's Letters: Cluster Mapping and Comparing across Features and Letters

 Ashley Roy and Paul Robertson

Part 3 Abstracting and Theorizing

5 Topology: Persistent Homology and Paul's Letters

 John Lind and Paul Robertson

Conclusion

Appendices

References

Index