Conferences
WSWG 28
11 Oct 2014, University of Massachusetts at AmherstStylometrics and the Question of Interpolation in Paul
It was on this occasion that one of the Project's long-tested stylometric measures (for the purpose named BIRD, or Brooks Index of Rhetorical Differerence) was introduced to the humanistic sciences. It was intended that both Sinology and New Testament studies would be represented, but in the event, only the latter were in attendance. Faithful to the original intent, the BIRD presentation nevertheless included both Chinese and NT examples (some of the latter being produced on the spot by Keith Yoder). Given constraints on those attending, the Conference was reduced to a single day 9Saturday, 121 October), with provision for those arriving earlier and leaving later.
Alternatives to the 14-word test list in Biblical Greek were proposed by those attending, and were tested in subsequent weeks by the Project staff (it was eventually decided that the original inventory was likely to give better results over a diverse range of material). Apart from this methodological wrinkle, the point of the conference was to consider the Pauline and DeuteroPauline corpus from the point of view of possible interpolations (with the work of William O Walker Jr as an example and starting point). The chief focus was the Corinthian correspondence, together with Hebrews as a sample of a deuteroPauline and also an uninterpolated text. The rhetoric of Paul was considered, as well as the formation process behind these and others of the epistles attributed to Paul.
The Chinese examples initially provided were from the Mencius, a few minor philosophers, and the Shr Ji and related texts. A few papers presented at SBL 2014 (in November of that year) are included here to make this page a more adequate reference for future discussion of the Corinthian Correspondence and related matters.Conference Information and Posted Discussion Memoranda
Conference Mission Statement Conference Program- Opening Remarks
- Parenthetical Introduction: "Alpha Christianity"
- On Alpha Christianity (Bruce Brooks)
- Interpolation
- On Growth Texts (Bruce Brooks)
- On Interpolations (Bruce Brooks)
- The Dangerous Appeal of Later Material (Bruce Brooks)
- On Interpolations in Paul (William Walker; abbreviated from his 2001 book)
A Style Measure (BIRD)
- Brief Description (Bruce Brooks)
- Chinese Example: Mencius 1A7 (4 consecutive sections, with an economic-theory addition at the end)
- English Text of Mencius 1A7, by sections
- MC 1A7 Crosstable (Mary Cleary)
- Chinese Example: Gungsun Lungdz (6 chapters, Graham regards only 2 and 3 as genuine):
- Gungsun Lungdz Crosstable Mary Cleary)
- NT Example: Hebrews (Consecutive, with a small Beta interpolation at the end)
- Hebrews Outline (Harold Attridge)
- Hebrews Simplified Outline (Bruce Brooks)
- Hebrews (Crosstable Keith Yoder)
- NT Example: The Pastorals (sometimes thought to come from a single deutero-Pauline author)
- Pastorals Crosstable (Keith Yoder)
- 2 Timothy Crosstable (Keith Yoder)
- Titus Crosstable (Keith Yoder)
- The Corinthian Correspondence
- Paul in Corinth (Darrell Doughty)
- 1 Corinthians (Probably Interpolated)
- Some Analytical Possibilities in 1 Corinthians (Bruce Brooks)
- 1 Cor Reconstruction (Bruce Brooks)
- Concerning Peri De in 1 Corinthians (Margaret Mitchell)
- 1 Cor 2:6-16 Interpolated (William Walker, Interpolations 127f)
- 1 Cor 10:1-22 Interpolated (Lamar Cope)
- 1 Cor 10:1-22 Interpolated (William Walker, Interpolations 232f)
- 1 Cor 11:3-16 Interpolated (William Walker, Interpolations 91f)
- 1 Cor 11:2-16 Integral (Jerome Murphy-O'Connor)
- 1 Cor 11:3-16 Interpolated (Christopher Mount)
- 1 Cor 13 Interpolated (William Walker, Interpolations 147f)
- 1 Cor 14:24-35 Interpolated (William Walker, Interpolations 78f)
- 1 Cor 15:3-11 Interpolated (Robert Price)
- 1 Cor 15:29-34 Interpolated (William Walker)
- 1 Cor Crosstable (Keith Yoder)
2 Corinthians (Probably Conflated)
Some Analytical Possibilities in 2 Corinthians (Bruce Brooks)- 2 Cor 3:7-18 Integral (Paul B Duff; see p 774)
- 2 Cor 3:7-18 Interpolated (William Walker; JSPL 2013)
2 Cor 6:14-7:1 Anti-Pauline (Hans Dieter Betz)- 2 Cor: The Offering (Calvin Roetzel, SBL 2014)
- 2 Cor 8-9 (Paul Duff, SBL 2014)
- 2 Cor Crosstable (Keith Yoder)
Other Pauline or Deutero-Pauline Texts
Galatians Gal 2:7-8 Interpolated (Ernst Barnikol)
- Gal 4:25 a Marginal Gloss (Stephen Carlson)
- Gal 5:13-6:10 Interpolated (J C O'Neill)
- Galatians Crosstable (Keith Yoder)
- Phillippians
- Php 3:2-21 Interpolated (Darrell Doughty)
- Philippians Reconstruction (Bruce Brooks)
- 1 Thess
- 1 Thess 2:13-16 Interpolated (Birger Pearson 1971)
- 1 Thess 2:13-16 Interpolated (Daryl Schmidt)
- 1 Thess Reconstruction (Bruce Brooks)
- 2 Thess
- 2 Thess Reconstruction (Robert Hawkins 1943)
- 2 Thess Crosstable (Keith Yoder)
- Barnabas (Integral except for Two Ways attachment at 8-21)
- Barnabas Crosstable Keith Yoder)
- Barnabas 11-21 Crosstable (Keith Yoder)
Roster
*Unable to attendHarold Attridge, Yale University
A Taeko Brooks, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
E Bruce Brooks, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
*Stephen Carlson, Australia
Mary Cleary, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
*Raymond F Collins, Providence RI
William "Chip" Gruen, Muhlenberg College
*Glenn Holland, Allegheny College
Matt Larson, Yale University
Keith L Yoder, University of Massachusetts at AmherstAll abstracts, papers, and discussion materials posted on this site are Copyright © by their authors.
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