Statistical Approaches to Paul’s Letters : Distributions, Visualization, Cluster Mapping, and Topology / Paul Robertson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robertson, Paul, author.

Series:

Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Digital Biblical Studies ; 7.

Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Digital Biblical Studies ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biblical Interpretations.

Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650). Biblical studies.

Reformation texts with translation (1350-1650).

New Testament & Early Christian Writings.

Criticism & Theory.

Literature and Cultural Studies.

Religious Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (211 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Distributions, Visualization, Cluster Mapping, and Topology

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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

Part 3 Abstracting and Theorizing

5 Topology: Persistent Homology and Paul’s Letters

John Lind and Paul Robertson

Conclusion

Appendices

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-74136-4

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004741362 DOI