An Authorship Study on the Letters of Saint Paul.
| dc.contributor.advisor | Halteren van, B.J.M. | |
| dc.contributor.advisor | Dulk, M. den | |
| dc.contributor.author | Laken, A.K. | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-07-29 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Letters of Paul are an important part of the New Testament canon, but for several of them, the authorship is disputed. In this study, I applied authorship attribution techniques to the Letters of St. Paul. Samples were taken from the letters commonly accepted as genuinely Pauline, the disputed letters (Colossians, Ephesians, and 2 Thessalonians), and several non-Pauline letters from the New Testament. Features were divided into general text measurements, syntactic features, vocabulary features and character n-grams. All types of features did relatively well at distinguishing between Pauline and non-Pauline samples. Although the results are not unambiguous, the careful conclusion is that Ephesians, Colossians and 2 Thessalonians are probably not written by Paul. 2 Thessalonians significantly deviated from the Pauline letters in overall measures, whereas Ephesians and Colossians deviated in syntactic and vocabulary features. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://theses.ubn.ru.nl/handle/123456789/7795 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.thesis.faculty | Faculteit der Letteren | en_US |
| dc.thesis.specialisation | Bachelor Taalwetenschap | en_US |
| dc.thesis.studyprogramme | Bachelor Taalwetenschap | en_US |
| dc.thesis.type | Bachelor | en_US |
| dc.title | An Authorship Study on the Letters of Saint Paul. | en_US |
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