NuBerea/analytics-pauline

NuBerea Research: Pauline Authorship

Computational stylometric analysis of the Pauline epistles, addressing two classic questions of New Testament scholarship: the authorship of the disputed letters (Ephesians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians, and the Pastorals) and the composite-letter hypothesis for 2 Corinthians (the Semler and Bornkamm partition theories). The dataset gathers derived analytical summary tables — register profiles, calibrated leave-one-out comparisons, and section-boundary analyses — over the Greek text of the thirteen canonical Pauline letters. Part of the NuBerea curated corpus estate of biblical-text datasets.

These are small findings tables intended for scholarly reference and reproducible discussion of Pauline authorship arguments, not a text corpus. The full technical specification (schemas, methodology, and provenance) is available in the gated SPEC accompanying this repository.

License

Released under CC BY 4.0.

Attribution

Analytical outputs are original to the NuBerea project. Underlying data derive from the following upstream datasets:

• NuBerea/source-analysis — CC BY 4.0
• NuBerea/nt-research-primitives — CC BY 4.0
• NuBerea/macula-greek — CC BY 4.0
• NuBerea/macula-sblgnt-syntax — CC BY 4.0

Scholarly References

• Beijen, E. & De Heide, R. (2025). "Authorship Verification of the Disputed Pauline Letters through Deep Learning." HIPHIL Novum 10(1).
• Pracht, E. B. & McCauley, T. (2025). "Paul's Style and the Problem of the Pastoral Letters." Open Theology 11, 20240034.

NuBerea project. Licensed CC BY 4.0.