Righteousness in Early Christian Literature: Distant Reading and Textual Network

The article joins the scholarly discussion about the meaning of righteousness language in biblical literature with consideration of changes in the concept from archaic Greek literature to fourth century Christian texts. The article seeks to showcase and evaluate how methods from the area of computat...

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Subtitles:Network Science in Biblical Studies
Authors: Kaše, Vojtěch (Author) ; Nikki, Nina (Author) ; Glomb, Tomáš (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:Italian
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Published: Ed. Dehoniane 2022
In: Annali di storia dell'esegesi
Year: 2022, Volume: 39, Issue: 1, Pages: 87-120
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Paul Apostle / Righteousness / Computer linguistics
RelBib Classification:HC New Testament
KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
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Summary:The article joins the scholarly discussion about the meaning of righteousness language in biblical literature with consideration of changes in the concept from archaic Greek literature to fourth century Christian texts. The article seeks to showcase and evaluate how methods from the area of computational linguistics and distributional semantics can contribute to the discussion. The article suggests that, together with formal network models, namely word co-occurrence networks and similarity networks, the methods reveal changes in large corpora of textual data which are too subtle to be detected by close reading. On the other hand, some questions require or benefit greatly from combining distant and close reading methods.
ISSN:1120-4001
Contains:Enthalten in: Annali di storia dell'esegesi