[decimon]

Was the word ping.

[Teotwawki]

They should use this to definitively determine who ghost wrote the Audacity of Hope for Obama (hint: it was Ayers)

[Salvavida]

They needed a computer code to tell them that? The Bible plainly states it was written by multiple authors. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

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.

[bereanway]

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.

[BuckeyeTexan]

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

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.

[jeffc]

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.

[One Name]

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—

[Alex Murphy]

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.

"German higher criticism" codified?

"If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me."
-- John 5:46

[Old Landmarks]

Science, falsely so called.

[jimfree]

Dreams from my Father anyone?

[AdmSmith]

Autorship attribution is a very interesting field of research.

A good introduction http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.153.9654&rep=rep1&type=pdf