Abstract :
Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg (1994) have shown that when the Book of Genesis is written as two-dimensional arrays with the topology of a cylinder, equidistant letter sequences spelling words with related meaning appear non randomly in close proximity. Here we adopt the quantitative tools developed by Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg (1994) to measure another type of pattern found in the same book. In the new patterns, equidistant letter sequences spelling out expressions appear in close proximity, on two-dimensional arrays, with conceptually related expressions appearing in the string of letters of the text. We measure the significance of this new type of pattern, using two samples of name-date word pairs, thus similar to the experiment done by Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg (1994). The p-levels obtained were 0.00051 and 0.000046 respectively
Keywords :
data analysis; literature; pattern recognition; sequences; statistical analysis; text analysis; Book of Genesis pattern; Genesis personality; cylinder topology; equidistant letter sequence spelling word; hidden birth dates; letter text string; name-date word pair; two-dimensional array; Books; Encoding; Euclidean distance; Performance evaluation; Testing; Topology; Vocabulary;
