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  • From: "Justin Dombrowski" <jedombrowski AT msn.com>
  • To: "Corpus-Paul" <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] Word Frequency in the Paulines
  • Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 00:10:48 -0400

Those of you doing Pauline word statistics: another interesting (and in my view important) article worth reading is found in the ABD under "statistics." For the life of my I cannot remember the author's name, but it made a number of very important methodological observations about using statistics in discussions such as these. In short, word counting alone is insufficient for determining authorship criteria.

Justin D.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Hubbard" <rhubbard AT midmaine.com>
To: "Corpus-Paul" <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 8:10 PM
Subject: RE: [Corpus-Paul] Word Frequency in the Paulines


Greetings Peter:

Peter, have you read Anthony Kenny's _A Stylometric Study of the New
Testament_ (Clarendon Press, 1985)? He has some very helpful information
there regarding statistical methodology and the GNT. Also, Lloyd Gaston,
_Horae Synopticae Electronicae_ (Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1973) uses
some potentially helpful methodology.

If you are sincerely interested in doing statistical analysis, I have the
entire NA27 text, fully tagged parsed, available in an MS Access database.
I'd be happy to share the Pauline portion of it with you. Contact me
off-list.

You can probably get some assistance with writing the VBA code for doing the
statistical analysis from http://www.access-programmers.co.uk/forums/ (These
guys are really good, but a little grouchy sometimes, so tread lightly with
your questions).

Rick Hubbard
Humble Maine Woodsman


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