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Locating New Testament Cross References: Some Strategies. Rick Brannan Logos Bible Software rick@logos.com Logos Blog: http://blog.logos.com Personal Blog: http://www.supakoo.com/rick/ricoblog. The No-Tech Approach. Use someone else’s work—that is, steal it !
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Locating New Testament Cross References: Some Strategies Rick BrannanLogos Bible Softwarerick@logos.com Logos Blog: http://blog.logos.com Personal Blog: http://www.supakoo.com/rick/ricoblog
The No-Tech Approach • Use someone else’s work—that is, steal it! • (no, not really, but you get what I mean) BibleTech:2008
The Low-Tech Approach • Section-to-Section Cross References • Thematic Cross References • Term-to-Term Cross References BibleTech:2008
Section-to-Section: Eusebian Canon Tables = BibleTech:2008
Section-to-Section: OT Quotations = (though note the source used by Logos is not the Blue Letter Bible source) BibleTech:2008
Thematic: Torrey’s New Topical Textbook • 630+ Top-Level Topics • 23,000+ Subtopics • 21,000+ unique references • Jn 1.12 => Ga 4.4-5; Eph 1.5; Heb 2.10, 13(and permute reciprocal references in each location) BibleTech:2008
Term-to-Term: LouwNida Semantic Domains = BibleTech:2008
Term-to-Term: Names and Places (map from http://www.openbible.info/geo/ ) BibleTech:2008
The Mo’-Tech Approach • Word-to-Word Cross References • Phrase-to-Phrase Cross References • Section-to-Section Cross References BibleTech:2008
Word-to-Word: Statistically Improbable Words • The z-score. mmmmmm … statistics … BibleTech:2008
Determine z-score per word per book Determine scores per word in each NT book Apply in canonical order to determine significant words per verse; including only the most improbable BibleTech:2008
Phrase-to-Phrase: N-grams In the beginning was the word,and the word was with Godand the word was God BibleTech:2008
N-gram Results • Reference:Jn 1.9: The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. • Cross-References:Jn 1.4: In him was life, and the life was the light of men.Jn 8.12: Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” BibleTech:2008
Phrase-to-Phrase: Common Substrings • 1Ti 2.4: who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. • 2Ti 3.7: always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. • 2Ti 2.25: correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, BibleTech:2008
Common Substrings: Matthew & Mark • Similarity between Mt 21 & Mk 11 • Also similarity within a book: Mt 1.22: All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet: Mt 21.4: This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying, BibleTech:2008
Phrase-to-Phrase: Three-Word Phrases • Pastoral Epistles 3270 three-adjacent-word combinations (using dictionary form of word). 141 of these repeat within the PE. • “Genuine” Paulines 27,422 three-adjacent-word combinations. 2436 of these repeat. Of those, 280 are also found in the Pastoral Epistles. BibleTech:2008
Phrase-to-Phrase: OpenText.org Modifiers • a BibleTech:2008
Locating New Testament Cross References: Some Strategies Rick BrannanLogos Bible Softwarerick@logos.com Logos Blog: http://blog.logos.com Personal Blog: http://www.supakoo.com/rick/ricoblog BibleTech:2008
