Arithmological Analysis

Our own analysis of the numerical structure of the biblical text is currently focused in three areas:

i. Logoprosodic Project.

This portion of the site consists of an introduction to logoprosodic analysis, some further technical discussion, and a Master Table linked to separate pdfs analyzing each psalm.

Find a general introduction to logotechnical analysis written by Professor Casper J. Labuschagne and entitled "Did the writers of the Bible use numbers as a way of structuring their texts?" here. This is important background for understanding the logoprosodic analysis set forth in this site. However, Professor Labuschagne's own website contains more recent logotechnical reflections and a detailed analysis of the each of the Psalms.

ii. Word Count Project.

We present a separate Word Count Project on its own page. Currently, word count data for most of the NT books are available for download in.doc and.xls (Excel) format, for scholars investigating this type of data. A longer, more technical statement of method, purposes, and expectations will be written in the near fugure, for pdf download. Each book of the bible will eventually have a summary page showing the actual word count (per manuscripts), any observable structural dynamics, including any relation of these numbers to sacred numbers, a brief discussion of findings, a revision date, and a contact link for submission of corrections and updates.

iii. Textual Basis for Numerical Analysis

We eventually hope to incorporate some of the valuable work that Dr. Reuben Swanson is doing in his Horizontal Line Synopsis series. We hope that this section might become a comparative resource at which scholars could see Codex Leningradensis, Aleppo, etc, all in parallel, similar to the work that Dr. Swanson is doing with Codex Vaticanus and the other New Testament manusacripts.