Distant Reading of the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of John: Reflection of Methodological Aspects of the Use of Digital Technologies in the Research of Biblical Texts

The aim of this study is to demonstrate the applicability of selected methods of the so-called distant reading from the area of digital humanities for the interpretation of early Christian texts, specifically for approaching similarities and differences between the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of...

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Authors: Špiclová, Zdeňka (Author) ; Kaše, Vojtěch (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2020
In: Open theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 6, Issue: 1, Pages: 423-439
Further subjects:B distant reading
B document distances
B Gospel of Thomas
B frequency distribution
B Digital humanities
B Gospel of John
B word co-occurrences
B quantitative text analysis
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Summary:The aim of this study is to demonstrate the applicability of selected methods of the so-called distant reading from the area of digital humanities for the interpretation of early Christian texts, specifically for approaching similarities and differences between the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of John. We use the term "distant reading" for the methods that allow us to explore, analyze, and visualize digitized textual data while using the tools from the area of data mining, natural language processing, or corpus linguistics. We want to explore whether methods from the field of digital humanities can allow for a sophisticated, quantifiable, and replicable comparison of the corpora of early Christian movements and thereby help to uncover the basic features of their theology and thus be a suitable complement to traditional exegesis and interpretation achieved by close reading.
ISSN:2300-6579
Contains:Enthalten in: Open theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/opth-2020-0111