Righteousness in Early Christian Literature : Distant Reading
and Textual Networks

J 2022

Righteousness in Early Christian Literature : Distant Reading and Textual Networks

KAŠE, Vojtěch, Nina NIKKI and Tomáš GLOMB

Basic information

Original name

Righteousness in Early Christian Literature : Distant Reading and Textual Networks

Authors

KAŠE, Vojtěch (203 Czech Republic), Nina NIKKI (246 Finland) and Tomáš GLOMB (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Annali di Storia dell'Esegesi, Centro Editoriale Dehoniano, 2022, 1120-4001

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60304 Religious studies

Country of publisher

Italy

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129131

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

Righteousness; Paul; Early Christianity; Distant reading; Quantitative textual analysis; Textual networks; Morality

Abstract

V originále

The article joins the scholarly discussion about the meaning of righteousness language in biblical literature with consideration of changes in the concept from archaic Greek literature to fourth-century Christian texts. The article seeks to showcase and evaluate how methods from the area of computational linguistics and distributional semantics can contribute to the discussion. The article suggests that, together with formal network models, namely word co-occurrence networks and similarity networks, the methods reveal changes in large corpora of textual data which are too subtle to be detected by close reading. On the other hand, some questions require or benefit greatly from combining distant and close reading methods.

Links

GA20-01464S, research and development project

Name: Kulturní evoluce moralizujících náboženství ve starověkém Středomoří: Přístup distančního čtení (Acronym: CEMRAM)

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

KAŠE, Vojtěch, Nina NIKKI and Tomáš GLOMB. Righteousness in Early Christian Literature : Distant Reading and Textual Networks. Annali di Storia dell'Esegesi. Centro Editoriale Dehoniano, 2022, vol. 39, No 1, p. 87-120. ISSN 1120-4001.

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KAŠE, Vojtěch, Nina NIKKI and Tomáš GLOMB. Righteousness in Early Christian Literature : Distant Reading and Textual Networks. \textit{Annali di Storia dell'Esegesi}. Centro Editoriale Dehoniano, 2022, vol.~39, No~1, p.~87-120. ISSN~1120-4001.

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