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  • From: "Ron Price" <ron.price AT virgin.net>
  • To: "Corpus-Paul" <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Corpus-Paul] The lengths of the Paulines.
  • Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:16:13 +0000

Dave Inglis wrote:

>Could I please ask someone to supply me with the lengths (number of Greek
>words) of each of the Paulines (and please specify the edition concerned).
>Thank you very much.

Dave,

The following word counts are taken from A.Kenny's _A Stylometric
Study of the New Testament_ (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986, p.14). They are
based on _The Greek New Testament_, (K.Aland et al., 3rd. edn., 1975).

Rom 7111
1 Cor 6829
2 Cor 4477
Gal 2230
Eph 2422
Php 1629
Col 1582
1 Th 1481
2 Th 823
1 Tim 1591
2 Tim 1238
Titus 659
Phm 335
Heb 4953

Ron Price

Derbyshire, UK

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From: "David C. Hindley" <dhindley AT compuserve.com>
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Subject: RE: [Corpus-Paul] The lengths of the Paulines.
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Ron Price says:

>> The following word counts are taken from A. Kenny's _A Stylometric Study
of the New Testament_ (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986, p.14). They are based on
_The Greek New Testament_, (K.Aland et al., 3rd. edn., 1975).

Rom 7111
1 Cor 6829
2 Cor 4477
Gal 2230
Eph 2422
Php 1629
Col 1582
1 Th 1481
2 Th 823
1 Tim 1591
2 Tim 1238
Titus 659
Phm 335
Heb 4953<<

Dang, beat me to it!

According to A. Q. Morton & James McLeman, _Paul, the Man and the Myth_
(Harper & Row, 1966)

Rom 7106
1 Cor 6814
2 Cor 4472
Gal 2233
Eph 2415
Php 1630
Col 1579
1 Th 1481
2 Th 822
1 Tim 1591
2 Tim 1238
Titus 657
Phm 336
Heb 4951

The book does not say which edition of the NT was used, but I believe I read
elsewhere that it was the then-current standard edition of the Greek NT
published by a recognized bible society in the UK (sorry, I couldn't find
the reference - I thought it was in Kenny above, but that book was not
indexed).

Respectfully,

Dave Hindley
Cleveland, Ohio, USA





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