Repetition of nouns (Nestle1904GBI)¶

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Table of content ¶

• 1 - Introduction
  • 1.1 - Why is this relevant?
  • 1.2 - Translating into Text-Fabric queries
• 2 - Load Text-Fabric app and data
• 3 - Performing the queries
  • 3.1 - TBD
  • 3.2 - TBD
• 4 - Attribution and footnotes
• 5 - Required libraries

1 - Introduction ¶

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Consider the following example from Luke 7:38:

(...) καὶ στᾶσα ὀπίσω παρὰ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ κλαίουσα τοῖς δάκρυσιν ἤρξατο βρέχειν τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ καὶ ταῖς θριξὶν τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτῆς ἐξέμασσεν καὶ κατεφίλει τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ καὶ ἤλειφεν τῷ μύρῳ.

Here the word πόδας (feet) is used 3 times in the same sentence (which started in verse 36).

1.1 - Why is this relevant? ¶

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The question is if the repetion of πόδας is of exegetical importance, given the fact that the second and third occurence could be refered to using the pronoun them.

1.2 - Translating into Text-Fabric queries ¶

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The idea is to analyse the number of occurences of identical nouns per sentence and score them.

2 - Load Text-Fabric app and data ¶

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3 - Performing the queries ¶

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3.1 - Determine the conditions ¶

This code will produce .....

4 - Attribution and footnotes¶

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Attribution:¶

Thanks to Prof. Willem van Peursen (VU) for pointing me to this interesting issue by mentioning:

In Muraoka’s Why Read the Bible in the Original Languages,¹ I found the following examples:

(...) Repetition (e.g. why are “feet” repeated three times in Luke 7:38) (...)

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¹ Muraoka, Takamitsu. Why Read the Bible in the Original Languages? (Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2020), 73.

5 - Required libraries ¶

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The scripts in this notebook require (beside text-fabric) the following Python libraries to be installed in the environment:

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You can install any missing library from within Jupyter Notebook using eitherpip or pip3.