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Inherent Twitter-like Structure of Classical Religious Sources

Version 1 : Received: 26 September 2022 / Approved: 27 September 2022 / Online: 27 September 2022 (07:55:25 CEST)

How to cite: Volkovich, Z.; Malka, R.; Avros, R.; Yamin, S. Inherent Twitter-like Structure of Classical Religious Sources. Preprints 2022, 2022090415. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202209.0415.v1 Volkovich, Z.; Malka, R.; Avros, R.; Yamin, S. Inherent Twitter-like Structure of Classical Religious Sources. Preprints 2022, 2022090415. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202209.0415.v1

Abstract

Classical religious texts remain an essential part of human culture due to their undiminished influence on the advancement of civilization. Although their entirely divine origin is questioned repeatedly, explicit or implicit quoting and adherence to their basic guidelines are fundamental in modern society. In this respect, these documents’ inner structure and linguistic style appear to be pivotal. This paper considers the topic from the standpoint of small textual patterns classified using deep learning methods, traditionally applied to analyze short textual material like tweets. We divide the considered documents into small sequential chunks imitating tweets and categorizing them, classifying an entire text. The proposed method demonstrates that the religious text collections correspond to stable ”Twitter”-like structures that adequately reflect stylistic properties. So, concise word combinations seem to be an inborn textual attribute that adequately outlines the proposed multi-source authorship. This approach differs from traditional methods of analyzing classical religious documents, which are based on the consideration and interpretation of relatively long templates. The case study consists of three famous collections of Mosaic authorship in the Old Testament (Hebrew), Pauline authorship in the New Testament (Greek), and Al-Ghazali authorship (Arabic). The obtained results go well with most previously expressed evaluations and complement them with new implications, particularly in the authorship of two famous manuscripts attributed to Al-Ghazali.

Keywords

Stylometry ; Signal Processing; Word Embedding; Deep Neural Networks

Subject

Computer Science and Mathematics, Computational Mathematics

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