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Are you getting sick of all this yet.... ;) There's now a write-up on the blog... http://peterkirby.com/basic-stylometry-101.html Of all the techniques that could be used to study ancient texts, there are a few that stand out as being both very important and largely understudied, being either ignore...

If his theory (and those like his) of the formation of the Pauline corpus are correct, stylometry will probably be of little use. We can have some hope to test specific claims of extensive, specific interpolation--like we did with 'shorter'/'longer' Romans in this thread. It's the small, little, oc...

Still, I'd like to see 2 Timothy and Titus compared to Acts. Oh, they were. No dice. Better match for Paul. Not-so-good compatibility with Acts. Below: $VAR1 = Paul (1 Cor, 2 Cor, Gal, 1 Thess) $VAR2 = Hebrews $VAR3 = Acts But here's the combined 2 Timothy & Titus reading: testsize: 1897 Bayesi...

And speaking of wasting people's time, is there a reason why you choose to separate your questions into umpteen different posts. Is that some new tactic that the mythicist community has handed down? One thing's clear: It isn't brain surgery to see that any mythicist is going to automatically side w...

Ben C. Smith wrote:Awesome! Thanks so much.

Of course! Just let us know what you discover.

Stone wrote:

Peter Kirby wrote:I sincerely hope that you don't mind, but I do believe this deserves to be the start of a new thread.

O.K., but I don't like the title. I'd prefer something like "Earliest Jesus stratum?"

Thank you,

Stone

Sure no problem.

Don't underestimate the extraordinary fecundity of the 'hive mind' trying to milk all the connections they can out of these texts. Are you referring to someone today? or someone in antiquity? or both? I'm referring to everyone today . Of all the 'connections' posited and 'coincidences' ruled out of...

The authenticity of the scholia to the Apocalypse has been repeatedly questioned see the footnote here https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6RQBPIaelwAC&pg=PA46&dq=%22origen%22+Scholia+in+Apocalypsem+ramelli+purification+harnack&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rDh3VY72OIP8UJXMgMAG&ved=0CCQQuwU...

I sincerely hope that you don't mind, but I do believe this deserves to be the start of a new thread.

Secret Alias wrote:The other possibility that you haven't considered is that the Pastorals and Ephesians were developed around a chunk or chunks of authentic Pauline material.

I considered that too. Maybe I haven't "mentioned," but I have considered.