Spirituality
Software investigates who wrote the Bible
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T.K. RandallJuly 4, 2011 ·
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An Israeli team has developed software that can determine who wrote which parts of the Bible.
The software is able to analyze style and word choice in order to distinguish different authors, in the case of the Bible is was able to pick out distinctions between the parts written by one author and the parts written by another.
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.
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PhysOrg.com |
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