Statistical Approaches to Paul’s Letters

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).

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresList of TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: History of Stylometry and Digital Approaches to Pauline StylePart 1 Describing and Distributing1 A Poisson Analysis of Paul’s LettersThomas McCauley and Paul Robertson2 Zipf’s Law and Paul’s Literary TechniquesThomas McCauley and Paul RobertsonPart 2 Mapping and Visualizing3 Mapping Paul’s Letters: Grouping, Identifying, and Plotting Stylistic FeaturesAshley Roy and Paul Robertson4 Analyzing Paul’s Letters: Cluster Mapping and Comparing across Features and LettersAshley Roy and Paul RobertsonPart 3 Abstracting and Theorizing5 Topology: Persistent Homology and Paul’s LettersJohn Lind and Paul RobertsonConclusionAppendicesReferencesIndex