The international team of researchers, with the help of special software, analyzed the texts of the Jewish Bible, resolving ancient disputes over the authorship of some excerpts created about 2800 years ago.
Scientists have studied 50 selected sections from the first nine Bible books - Pentaters and early prophets, where it is easier to separate the texts of different authors or editors. According to Dr. width Faigenbaum-Golovin from Duke University, the team has adapted an algorithm that compares the distribution of words in texts to evaluate their similarity. The use of artificial intelligence helped to resolve the dispute over Samuel's books: it turned out that the second book of Samuel 6 is significantly different in style and vocabulary from the first part of the first book of Samuel. This confirms the hypothesis that the texts are written by different authors. Researchers also found that the stories about Abraham's battles and excerpts from the Esther Book were probably created later than other parts of the Bible, and are not related to the three major writing schools studied by biblical scholars.
Professor Israel Finkelstein from the University of Haifa emphasized the importance of this study for a better understanding of the literary and historical context of contagious texts.
Well -known biblical expert Thomas Remer de France emphasized that the Bible could not have a single author - its original texts were repeatedly copied and edited by various people for centuries.
