Statistical Approaches to Paul’s Letters

Distributions, Visualization, Cluster Mapping, and Topology

AvPaul Robertson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-18
Mått:155 x 235 x 18 mm
Vikt:478 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Digital Biblical Studies
Antal sidor:190
Upplaga:25002
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004741355

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Biblar inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

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).

Innehållsförteckning

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