Computer program to reveal who wrote the bible

[jagman]

Precisely who wrote the Bible has been debated for centuries – but now scientists have devised a computer program that sheds much more light on the sources of the various religious texts within it.
Israeli computer scientists and Bible scholars have written an algorithm that analyses the writing styles found within various sections.
While it can’t pinpoint an individual author, the program has been able to determine when a passage has been written by more than one person and can detect the point at which a new author has taken over.

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Write stuff: The computer program searches for how common words are used throughout the scriptures
For instance, many believe that the Torah, the first five books of the Bible, was written by one person – Moses.
However, many experts insist there were multiple sources.
The computer program will be able to help with these kinds of debates by processing how functional words and synonyms are used within various passages, which can reveal whether different people were involved in producing the material.
The researchers, led by Professor Nachum Dershowitz of Tel Aviv University's Blavatnik School of Computer Science, tested their software by feeding it mixed up passages from two Hebrew books of Jeremiah and Ezekiel – and asking the computer to re-sort them.
It did so with 99 per cent accuracy, by looking at how various words were distributed.
Presented at the 49th Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics in Portland, the research was hailed as a way of side-stepping a traditional problem in Bible analysis – the fact that many scholars are inherently subjective about how they view its text.
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When passages from the Bible were mixed up the software re-sorted them with 99 per cent accuracy

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[Carmody]

They should apply that software to channeled material and see if different personalities appear.

[truthseekerdan]

God in human form wrote it -- and then Satan distorted it... ;)

[truth4me]

They should apply that software to channeled material and see if different personalities appear.that's a good idea.....

[realitycorrodes]

The fact that "Israeli computer scientists" are involved in this should be the "red flag" as to whether any truth will come out of this.

IMHO the bible rag should be used for wiping one's base chakra.

In order to get along with one another we don't need anything other than ourselves wanting to get along with each other. Slaves who don't know themselves need biblical authority to tell them to forcefully remove humans from there land?...and they refer to such authority as a God. lol Divide and Conquer is the hallmark of a completely different character....it's not rocket science. Wishing everyone freedom from bibilical slavery!

[58andfixed]

"Scholars seek to correct 'mistakes' in Bible"

MATTI FRIEDMAN - Associated Press
August 12, 2011

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44117239/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/

"Scholars in this out-of-the-way corner of the Hebrew University campus have been quietly at work for 53 years on one of the most ambitious projects attempted in biblical studies — publishing the authoritative edition of the Old Testament, also known as the Hebrew Bible, and tracking every single evolution of the text over centuries and millennia."

"And it has evolved, despite deeply held beliefs to the contrary."

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And not only this most obvious of facts, that Bibles have been edited over time, there is the less obvious facts, that there are many other Bibles.

Kebra Nagast

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kebra_Nagast

"... the Book of the Glory of Kings, is an account written in Ge'ez of the origins of the Solomonic line of the Emperors of Ethiopia."

"The text, in its existing form, is at least seven hundred years old, and is considered by many Ethiopian Christians and Rastafarians to be an inspired and a reliable account."

"Not only does it contain an account of how the Queen of Sheba met Solomon, and about how the Ark of the Covenant came to Ethiopia with Menelik I, but contains an account of the conversion of the Ethiopians from the worship of the sun, moon, and stars to that of the "Lord God of Israel"."

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/07/Kebra_Nagast.jpg/200px-Kebra_Nagast.jpg

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Bibles are an interesting read if one takes the time to delve into them, just don't take any one citation and build a dogma around it.

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[modwiz]

Whether scholars or computers, the many books that comprise the OT show a layering from different editors at different times. So, the work being done in Israel may lend it self to another layer. :note: Obla-di-obla-da life goes on, bra.:note:

It's their book. Let them do what they wish with it. Tolkien would have changed some parts of the Lord of the Rings too if he had lived longer. Later works, published by his son, indicate this.

Besides, the OT as we know it today did not exist in the time of Jesus. When he referred to'scripture' he was referring to some of the books that would later be collated and made a part of the OT. There were different versions of those books circulating at that time also. As there would be different versions of the gospels a few decades later.

Keeps people off of unemployment.

[modwiz]

The fact that "Israeli computer scientists" are involved in this should be the "red flag" as to whether any truth will come out of this.

IMHO the bible rag should be used for wiping one's base chakra.



I see you're a fan. :fans:

[noxon medem]

Who is plural , and rewriting seems to be the name of the game,
- so to speak ...

If they do find who did it , then maybe they could be so kind
as to show them this little perspective :

10649

( not directed at the source of wisdom , of course ..).

And show it in 3D . ( 4D if necessary : )

10650

- this one is probably totaly unrelated :

10651

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:fish2:

[Mu2143]

A computer can't find out how many wrote the Bible ,because it is consciously death!. The only way your going to see what is true or not is with your soul not a computer. A computer can guess how many wrote it ,but only god knows the details.

[Lost Soul]

What a waste of CPU time. Are they going to start with the Talmud in hebrew? Will they resort to the Latin version of the New Testament? What about the changes made by various people to have the Bible serve their purpose?

[Lord Sidious]

The fact that "Israeli computer scientists" are involved in this should be the "red flag" as to whether any truth will come out of this.

IMHO the bible rag should be used for wiping one's base chakra.

In order to get along with one another we don't need anything other than ourselves wanting to get along with each other. Slaves who don't know themselves need biblical authority to tell them to forcefully remove humans from there land?...and they refer to such authority as a God. lol Divide and Conquer is the hallmark of a completely different character....it's not rocket science. Wishing everyone freedom from bibilical slavery!

Not everyone who is classified as Israeli is bad or dishonest though.
Ofra Haza was Israeli born and she is a goddess.
And we have some excellent members here who are also born there.
I know what you mean though and I have done this myself, what I meant and what I said aren't the same.
Not knocking you, just pointing this little bit out.

[58andfixed]

Well John Mill (c. 1645 – 23 June 1707) didn't need a computer to find a lot of discrepancies.

All he was trying to do was print one just Bible, had gathered 100 documents to verify and compare among, and the plan was for the one to replace the many, and be as accurate as possible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mill

"Mill's work noted over 30,000 discrepancies between some 100 extant New Testament manuscripts."

A computer program can be useful for finding unique traits of a person's writing style, to assist in sorting out who edited what parts.

Bart Ehrman has done excellent work with "Misquoting Jesus - Men Who Changed The Bible and Why."

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