Proposing Some New Ecliptics in New Testament Studies Enabled by Digital Humanities-Based Methods

“Fragmentation” is a well-worn watchword in contemporary biblical studies. But is endless fragmentation across the traditional domains of epistemology, methodology and hermeneutics the inevitable future for the postmodern exercise of biblical scholarship? In our view, multiple factors mitigate again...

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Published in:Journal of religion, media and digital culture
Main Author: Libby, James A. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Journal of religion, media and digital culture
Further subjects:B Corpora
B Digital humanities
B Authorship
B statistical linguistics
B Authorship attribution
B 7Q5
B Genre
B fragmentary papyri
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