Statistical approaches to Paul's letters : distributions, visualization, cluster mapping, and topology / by Paul Robertson ; written with the assistance of Thomas McCauley, Ashley Roy, John Lind.
| Author/creator | Robertson, Paul author. |
| Other author | McCauley, Thomas, contributor. |
| Other author | Roy, Ashley, contributor. |
| Other author | Lind, John (Mathematician), contributor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2025] |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xvi, 3 unnumbered pages, 189 pages : illustrations (tables, charts ; some color) ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Series | Digital biblical studies, 2452-0586 ; Digital biblical studies ; v. 7. 2452-0586 UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Preface: The "so what" question -- Introduction: History of stylometry and digital approaches to Pauline style -- Part 1. Describing and distributing. -- A Poisson analysis of Paul's letters / Thomas McCauley, Paul Robertson -- Zipf's Law and Paul's literary techniques / Thomas McCauley, Paul Robertson -- Part 2. Mapping and visualizing. -- Mapping Paul's letters : grouping, identifying, and plotting stylistic features / Ashley Roy, Paul Robertson -- Analyzing Paul's letters : cluster mapping and comparing across features and letters / Ashley Roy, Paul Robertson -- Part 3. Abstracting and theorizing. -- Topology : persistent homology and Paul's letters / John Lind, Paul Robertson -- Conclusion: Looking back and looking forward -- Appendix: Top-down stylistic features in Paul's letters. |
| Abstract | "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." -- Publisher, page four of cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [180]-186) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion Robertson, Paul $q (Paul Mark) Statistical approaches to Paul's letters Leiden : Brill, [2025] 9789004741362 |
| LCCN | 2025039614 |
| ISBN | 9789004741355 |
| ISBN | 9004741356 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
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