Early English Printed Sermons


Sheppey, Thomas. -- Several weighty considerations

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Textual Features and Statistics

Nota Bene: QP stands for "quotation/paraphrase." A "unit" stands for a segment produced by EEPS' segmentation unit or an individual marginal note. Adjacent references are those that are located in the same or adjacent segment or note. Chapter-level citations are relevant if the chapter matches that of the query. For book-level queries, all references to the same Bible book are relevant. A "Latin Bible QP" is a quotation or paraphrase of any verse from a Bible that follows the Latin Vulgate tradition: the Vulgate, Douay-Rheims Version, the ODRV, and Wycliffe's version.
Feature Description In-Text Marginal
cited Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent citation 4.7% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 82.1% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.3% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.3% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 11.5% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% -inf%
near_quotations Percentage of units that have high lexical similarity with their Bible verse predictions (any type of score greater than the mean + standard deviation of that score type) 7.1% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.3% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.3% -inf%



Quotations and Paraphrases

Rather than examine the frequency or proportion of references, it is far more useful to determine which references are most prominent for a citing entity. The visualizations below show the most prominent scriptural references within all publications per year. Prominence, displayed as the value below each label, is measured using the metric of Outgoing Relative Citational Prominence (ORCP) proposed by Wahle et al. (2023). In this case, a positive prominence value for a reference R in a given year means that R constitutes a greater percentage of all the references cited by publications in that year than the average citation percentage of R per year. A negative value indicates that a given reference constitutes a proportion lesser than average. A value of negative infinity means that the query reference does not occur in the citation or QP of a citing entity. A value of "%" (without any numeral value) means that there are no citations or QP corresponding to the query reference.

For quotational prominence, only the predictions with the highest cosine similarity scores for each subsegmented or whole unit of a segment or note are included for consideration. The average quotational prominence for a citing entity is the mean of the prominence percentage points for all references R_ALL that are relevant to the query reference such that each reference R in R_ALL has the highest cosine similarity score with a part or the whole of its covering body segment or marginal note. The percentages of top predictions from each Bible version are displayed in a table below.

For citational prominence, only pluasible scriptural citations and ones where the original phrase does not begin with a lowercase word are included for consideration. A scriptural citation is plausible if its numbering exists in any of the Bibles considered by this project. There are over 76 thousand such excluded candidates out of 1.2 million parsed citational units in total. Each of the four side-by-side tables below also have associated diversity and evenness scores; Simpson's Diversity Index ranges from 0 to 1 such that a higher score indicates a greater species diversity. Likewise, the Shannon Index indicates more evenness in the distribution of individuals in a group when its value approaches 1.


Diversity: 0.888
Evenness: 0.964
Part Prominence
New Testament (AKJV) 11.018
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 4.03
Apocrypha (AKJV) 2.971
New Testament (Vulgate) 2.747
Old Testament (ODRV) 1.34
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) -0.818
Old Testament (Geneva) -2.082
New Testament (Tyndale) -2.088
New Testament (Geneva) -3.253
New Testament (ODRV) -3.34
Old Testament (AKJV) -4.168
Diversity: 0.969
Evenness: 0.989
Book Prominence
1 Thessalonians (AKJV) 7.218
1 Thessalonians (Geneva) 4.811
Jude (Geneva) 2.478
1 John (Vulgate) 2.427
Jude (AKJV) 2.304
1 Corinthians (Vulgate) 2.283
James (ODRV) 2.127
2 Peter (AKJV) 2.112
Galatians (Geneva) 2.094
Galatians (ODRV) 1.974
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 1.953
Ephesians (ODRV) 1.936
James (AKJV) 1.931
1 Timothy (AKJV) 1.913
Galatians (AKJV) 1.904
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 1.856
Job (Geneva) 1.853
2 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.798
Philippians (AKJV) 1.791
Ephesians (Geneva) 1.782
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 1.737
Luke (Geneva) 1.708
John (Geneva) 1.707
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.701
Genesis (AKJV) 1.676
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.675
Romans (Tyndale) 1.645
Hebrews (AKJV) 1.48
Psalms (ODRV) 1.437
Romans (ODRV) 1.413
Matthew (Geneva) 1.393
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.265
Romans (Geneva) 1.169
Proverbs (AKJV) 1.156
Romans (AKJV) 0.872
Psalms (AKJV) -0.002
Diversity: 0.976
Evenness: 0.992
Chapter Prominence
1 Thessalonians 4 (AKJV) 6.012
1 Thessalonians 4 (Geneva) 3.999
1 Corinthians 9 (Vulgate) 2.036
Psalms 63 (ODRV) 2.03
1 John 4 (Vulgate) 2.029
Ecclesiasticus 21 (AKJV) 2.028
Psalms 140 (AKJV) 2.028
Isaiah 9 (Douay-Rheims) 2.02
Luke 2 (Geneva) 2.014
Ecclesiasticus 21 (Douay-Rheims) 2.013
1 Corinthians 12 (Vulgate) 2.012
John 13 (Geneva) 2.008
Job 5 (Geneva) 1.993
Jude 1 (Geneva) 1.993
Psalms 7 (AKJV) 1.991
Proverbs 6 (AKJV) 1.991
Ecclesiasticus 40 (AKJV) 1.99
Proverbs 24 (Douay-Rheims) 1.988
Galatians 4 (Geneva) 1.987
Romans 12 (Tyndale) 1.975
Genesis 2 (AKJV) 1.969
Ephesians 2 (ODRV) 1.966
Romans 3 (Geneva) 1.963
Psalms 19 (AKJV) 1.96
James 1 (ODRV) 1.959
1 Timothy 1 (AKJV) 1.959
2 Peter 2 (AKJV) 1.952
Hebrews 6 (AKJV) 1.943
2 Peter 3 (AKJV) 1.942
Galatians 5 (ODRV) 1.939
Romans 3 (ODRV) 1.933
Galatians 5 (Geneva) 1.931
Romans 3 (AKJV) 1.915
Ephesians 2 (Geneva) 1.915
James 1 (AKJV) 1.91
Matthew 5 (Geneva) 1.906
2 Peter 1 (AKJV) 1.893
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 1.878
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 1.876
Philippians 3 (AKJV) 1.875
Jude 1 (AKJV) 1.869
Isaiah 57 (AKJV) 1.868
2 Corinthians 5 (ODRV) 1.827
Philippians 2 (AKJV) 1.824
Ephesians 4 (Geneva) 1.812
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 1.707
Diversity: 0.981
Evenness: 0.992
Verse Prominence
1 Thessalonians 4.11 (AKJV) 4.991
Ecclesiasticus 21.25 (AKJV) 3.331
1 Thessalonians 4.11 (Geneva) 3.319
Ecclesiasticus 21.24 (AKJV) 1.666
Ecclesiasticus 40.18 (AKJV) 1.666
1 Corinthians 9.27 (Vulgate) 1.666
Ecclesiasticus 21.25 (Douay-Rheims) 1.666
Ecclesiasticus 21.22 (AKJV) 1.666
Psalms 140.2 (AKJV) 1.665
Proverbs 24.34 (Douay-Rheims) 1.665
1 Thessalonians 4.1 (AKJV) 1.664
Isaiah 9.6 (Douay-Rheims) 1.664
Ephesians 2.14 (ODRV) 1.664
1 John 4.21 (Vulgate) 1.664
Genesis 2.15 (AKJV) 1.664
Proverbs 6.11 (AKJV) 1.664
2 Peter 3.18 (AKJV) 1.663
Psalms 7.14 (AKJV) 1.663
Job 5.7 (Geneva) 1.663
Romans 12.7 (Tyndale) 1.663
2 Peter 2.11 (AKJV) 1.663
2 Peter 3.1 (AKJV) 1.663
Psalms 19.5 (AKJV) 1.662
1 Corinthians 12.14 (Vulgate) 1.662
Luke 2.14 (Geneva) 1.661
Ephesians 2.14 (Geneva) 1.661
James 1.26 (ODRV) 1.661
James 1.26 (AKJV) 1.661
Jude 1.10 (Geneva) 1.661
Romans 3.16 (AKJV) 1.66
John 13.34 (Geneva) 1.66
Hebrews 6.9 (AKJV) 1.66
Jude 1.10 (AKJV) 1.66
Galatians 4.26 (Geneva) 1.659
Romans 3.13 (Geneva) 1.659
Psalms 63.4 (ODRV) 1.659
Philippians 3.12 (AKJV) 1.658
Philippians 3.13 (AKJV) 1.656
2 Corinthians 5.20 (ODRV) 1.655
2 Peter 1.6 (AKJV) 1.655
Romans 3.17 (ODRV) 1.654
Matthew 5.44 (Geneva) 1.654
Philippians 2.4 (AKJV) 1.651
Isaiah 57.20 (AKJV) 1.646
2 Peter 2.10 (AKJV) 1.646
Philippians 4.20 (AKJV) 1.644
Galatians 5.17 (ODRV) 1.641
1 Timothy 1.17 (AKJV) 1.64
Jude 1.8 (AKJV) 1.639
2 Peter 1.5 (AKJV) 1.638
2 Peter 1.7 (AKJV) 1.634
Philippians 2.21 (AKJV) 1.633
Galatians 5.17 (AKJV) 1.633
Galatians 5.17 (Geneva) 1.632
Ephesians 4.3 (AKJV) 1.562
Ephesians 4.3 (Geneva) 1.562
Segment No., Location Verse & Version Verse Text Text Is a Partial Textual Segment/Note Adjacent References Cosine Similarity Score Cross Encoder Score Okapi BM25 Score



Citations
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The index of citation indicates its position within the text of the segment or a particular note of the segment. For example, if 'Note 0' (i.e., the first note) of this segment has three citations, the citation with index 0 is its first citation, inclusive of all its parsed components.

Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Apocrypha 28.246
Old Testament -13.672
New Testament -14.573
Diversity: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Ecclesiasticus 19.784
2 Peter 18.611
Philippians 18.218
Proverbs 17.053
Psalms 14.966
Diversity: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Ecclesiasticus 21 14.273
Psalms 20 14.248
Proverbs 6 14.195
Psalms 19 14.137
2 Peter 2 14.014
Philippians 2 13.944
Philippians 3 13.926
Diversity: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Ecclesiasticus 21.22 14.278
Proverbs 6.11 14.276
2 Peter 2.11 14.275
Psalms 19.5 14.273
Philippians 2.4 14.26
Philippians 3.13 14.254
2 Peter 2.10 14.241
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase