Posted on 06/30/2011 7:44:16 PM PDT by decimon
JERUSALEM (AP) — Software developed by an Israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible.
The new software analyzes style and word choices to distinguish parts of a single text written by different authors, and when applied to the Bible its algorithm teased out distinct writerly voices in the holy book.
The program, part of a sub-field of artificial intelligence studies known as authorship attribution, has a range of potential applications — from helping law enforcement to developing new computer programs for writers. But the Bible provided a tempting test case for the algorithm's creators.
For millions of Jews and Christians, it's a tenet of their faith that God is the author of the core text of the Hebrew Bible — the Torah, also known as the Pentateuch or the Five Books of Moses. But since the advent of modern biblical scholarship, academic researchers have believed the text was written by a number of different authors whose work could be identified by seemingly different ideological agendas and linguistic styles and the different names they used for God.
Today, scholars generally split the text into two main strands. One is believed to have been written by a figure or group known as the "priestly" author, because of apparent connections to the temple priests in Jerusalem. The rest is "non-priestly." Scholars have meticulously gone over the text to ascertain which parts belong to which strand.
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Was the word ping.
That's a good thought. Might embarrass Obama and a whole lot of deserving people.
2Pe 1:21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
academic researchers have believed the text was written by a number of different authors whose work could be identified by seemingly different ideological agendas and linguistic styles and the different names they used for God.**************
These so called academic researchers are as dumb as a box of rocks if they believe the different names used of God are an indicator of authorship. They would have to have zero understanding of the Biblical text to believe such a thing.
No it isn't. We believe that God inspired the individuals who physically wrote the text. Big difference. Of course there will be different styles of writing that can be attributed to different authors.
Hmmm... how do we know the programming code isn’t slanted towards the code writer’s beliefs? Computers are just hardware and do what they are told. People write programming code.
But who was the ghost writer for Ayers? You do know this guy is an almost terminal case of drug burn ~ he’s all fake.
Cheers!
I’ve analyzed some of my own writing with the following sites:
http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php
http://iwl.me/
and gotten much different answers.
I’ve analyzed some of my own writing with the following sites:
http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php
http://iwl.me/
and gotten much different answers.
Years ago I read some stuff by and about a Russian mathematician, Ivan Panin, whose works involved converting the Canon into a mathematical sequence, since supposedly hebrew, chaldee and greek letters also represented numbers. The claim was that the numerical patterns were violated by omissions or extra-canonical text, hence the true Bible could be deduced or extracted. This was before the PC revolution and I have not seen anything since—
"German higher criticism" codified?
"If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me."
-- John 5:46
His work is quite interesting. If you apply statistics to his research, you can deduce that each character of the text is inspired by god.
Science, falsely so called.
True, but tell us, who do you believe wrote the first five books of the Bible? Moses? According to the article, some people now believe those books were written by more than one person. Peace, A
Moses is the author my Jewish tradition and by the authentication by Christ Himself.
However, it is understood that (1) at least one portion of Scripture had to be written by someone else: the latter part of Deuteronomy— after Moses’ death; and (2) even if Moses had an amanuensis, it doesn’t strike his overall authorship. Very similar to Paul: he didn’t actually write most of his letters, and he states so.
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