An Israeli algorithm sheds light on the Bible
Thursday, June 30, 2011 - 16:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Software developed by an Israeli team is giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible. The new software analyzes style and word choices to distinguish parts of a single text written by different authors, and when applied to the Bible its algorithm teased out distinct writerly voices in the holy book.