Algorithm developed by Israeli scholars sheds light on the Bible's authorship
This article was in today's local paper and I came across it online as well. As exciting as it is to see what this software can do with the Old Testament, I'm really excited to imagine what it might find in the New Testament. Could it help us identify the anonymous author of the book of Hebrews? Would it identify a common author of the Gospel of John, the Johannine epistles and John's Apocalypse? What about the relationship between Jude and First and Second Peter that scholars have wrestled with for so long, finding just as many significant similarities as they find significant differences? Would we finally be able to say with certainty which of the deutero-Pauline epistles were truly written by the Apostle and which are pseudographs? At the very least, it looks like this software will be one more (significant!) tool in the toolbox of biblical philologists. Cool and exciting stuff!!
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