When Bilby used to drop by with updates, hw was also quite enthusiastic about his POV, which he was sure would be proven by stylometrics he was developing.Hi All, I'm reading Britt and Wingo's book and find their computer driven stylometry results fascinating. It's greathowever think they perhaps bring in too much of their personal opinions, but the book is fantastic for the layreader.
It really has changed my opinion on things, ground breaking. Same for you? We share the same obsession herewith NT scholarship.
One thing they mention is other stylometry done by Dr Mark Bilby. I've tried to look for it but can't find it.
Has anyone got any links to this or other stylometry results? Anyone ran the software themselves? Thanks
however think they perhaps bring in too much of their personal opinions, but the book is fantastic for the layreader.
with NT scholarship.Now I am no expert on stylometrics, but had read several authors interested in applying such techniques to NT or Pauline corpus. Kenny, etc. and related studies on the US's Federalist Papers or the Letters of Plato, etc. It may have been 10 years, and a lot has been going on since, new techniques are developed and tried, often to failure.
The results were not especially conclusive if I remember. A wide range of factors have been used as criteria, and no one has cracked the one or two or even ten that tend to be surefire predictors in combination. They also noted that sometimes the findings are driven by the finder's own assumptions. I guess that brings us back to Bilby's over enthusiasm.
I may need to take a fresh look. I want to test my own hypotheses just like they do, but I do not jump on bandwagons. Hay carts at the local apple farm, maybe ...
DCH
Statistics: Posted by DCHindley — Wed Mar 12, 2025 2:34 pm