The paragon of Persia; or The lavvyers looking-glasse Opened in a sermon at S. Maries in Oxford, at the Assises, the 7 day of Iuly, 1624. By William Hayes, Master of Arts of Magdalen Hall.

Hayes, William, b. 1595 or 6
Publisher: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short
Place of Publication: Oxford
Publication Year: 1624
Approximate Era: JamesI
TCP ID: A02835 ESTC ID: S116667 STC ID: 12973
Subject Headings: Sermons, English -- 17th century;
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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 6.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 4.1% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 90.3% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.7% -inf%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.3% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.3% -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) 2.4% -inf%
foreign_cited Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.7% -inf%
foreign_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.7% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.7% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent citation 0.7% -inf%
foreign_italicized_cited_exact Percentage of units with QP, italicized foreign text, and an adjacent matching citation 0.7% -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: 0.875
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (ODRV) 6.131
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 3.948
Old Testament (Geneva) 2.565
New Testament (Tyndale) 2.478
New Testament (Geneva) 1.442
New Testament (ODRV) 1.362
Old Testament (AKJV) 0.454
New Testament (AKJV) 0.072
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 0.97
Book Prominence
Esther (AKJV) 15.905
Esther (Douay-Rheims) 3.944
Joel (AKJV) 3.901
Numbers (AKJV) 3.728
Ezekiel (Geneva) 3.721
Exodus (Geneva) 3.56
Revelation (AKJV) 3.465
Exodus (AKJV) 3.417
Genesis (Geneva) 3.388
James (AKJV) 3.354
Luke (Tyndale) 3.224
Acts (AKJV) 3.166
Genesis (AKJV) 3.102
Proverbs (Geneva) 3.069
Psalms (ODRV) 2.79
Romans (ODRV) 2.75
Isaiah (AKJV) 2.717
Romans (Geneva) 2.54
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 2.432
Psalms (Geneva) 2.185
Romans (AKJV) 2.157
Psalms (AKJV) 1.219
Diversity: 0.953
Evenness: 0.976
Chapter Prominence
Esther 1 (AKJV) 13.329
Esther 1 (Douay-Rheims) 3.332
Numbers 24 (AKJV) 3.327
Exodus 21 (Geneva) 3.326
Psalms 82 (ODRV) 3.324
Exodus 21 (AKJV) 3.324
Revelation 6 (AKJV) 3.318
Exodus 18 (Geneva) 3.317
Genesis 4 (Geneva) 3.316
Revelation 7 (AKJV) 3.314
Joel 1 (AKJV) 3.313
Isaiah 2 (AKJV) 3.312
Psalms 148 (AKJV) 3.309
Proverbs 12 (Geneva) 3.303
Psalms 79 (AKJV) 3.303
Ezekiel 18 (Geneva) 3.3
Psalms 51 (Geneva) 3.295
Acts 2 (AKJV) 3.271
Genesis 49 (AKJV) 3.269
Genesis 4 (AKJV) 3.266
Luke 16 (Tyndale) 3.262
Romans 10 (ODRV) 3.237
1 Corinthians 6 (AKJV) 3.218
James 2 (AKJV) 3.211
Romans 2 (AKJV) 3.163
Romans 13 (Geneva) 3.008
Romans 13 (AKJV) 2.972
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 0.977
Verse Prominence
Esther 1.15 (AKJV) 12.901
Esther 1.12 (Douay-Rheims) 3.225
Revelation 6.15 (AKJV) 3.225
Psalms 79.11 (AKJV) 3.225
Luke 16.3 (Tyndale) 3.225
Psalms 51.4 (Geneva) 3.225
Exodus 21.14 (Geneva) 3.225
Exodus 21.14 (AKJV) 3.225
Numbers 24.13 (AKJV) 3.225
Isaiah 2.13 (AKJV) 3.224
Ezekiel 18.20 (Geneva) 3.224
Psalms 82.11 (ODRV) 3.224
Acts 2.37 (AKJV) 3.224
Revelation 7.14 (AKJV) 3.224
Exodus 18.18 (Geneva) 3.222
Psalms 148.11 (AKJV) 3.221
Joel 1.10 (AKJV) 3.221
Genesis 49.6 (AKJV) 3.22
Genesis 4.7 (Geneva) 3.219
Genesis 4.7 (AKJV) 3.218
Proverbs 12.10 (Geneva) 3.217
Genesis 49.7 (AKJV) 3.217
1 Corinthians 6.2 (AKJV) 3.214
Romans 10.4 (ODRV) 3.213
Romans 13.4 (Geneva) 3.211
Romans 2.14 (AKJV) 3.208
James 2.13 (AKJV) 3.203
Romans 13.4 (AKJV) 3.145
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
i
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 28.862
Old Testament -14.001
New Testament -14.862
Diversity: 0.945
Evenness: 0.994
Book Prominence
Titus 8.923
1 Esdras 4.973
Esther 4.544
Daniel 3.665
Numbers 3.571
Ezekiel 3.396
2 Samuel 3.386
Exodus 2.885
Revelation 2.874
Deuteronomy 2.869
Job 2.757
2 Corinthians 2.698
Genesis 2.375
Proverbs 1.952
Acts 1.797
Luke 1.782
1 Corinthians 1.71
Romans 1.045
Psalms -0.172
Diversity: 0.966
Evenness: 0.996
Chapter Prominence
Titus 2 6.248
1 Esdras 3 3.221
Psalms 140 3.208
Numbers 9 3.207
Esther 1 3.205
Deuteronomy 25 3.2
Psalms 79 3.191
Numbers 22 3.19
Deuteronomy 19 3.189
Exodus 21 3.185
Psalms 83 3.179
Deuteronomy 21 3.175
Proverbs 12 3.171
Numbers 25 3.15
Job 2 3.139
Exodus 18 3.138
2 Samuel 24 3.138
Daniel 6 3.13
Ezekiel 18 3.127
Revelation 6 3.126
Psalms 68 3.117
Acts 19 3.111
2 Corinthians 11 3.075
Genesis 49 3.07
Acts 7 3.051
1 Corinthians 4 3.049
Psalms 51 3.021
1 Corinthians 6 2.939
Luke 16 2.908
Romans 2 2.892
Diversity: 0.941
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Numbers 9.8 5.881
Esther 1.15 5.88
Psalms 140.7 5.88
Luke 16.3 5.879
Daniel 6.8 5.879
Numbers 22.18 5.878
Deuteronomy 25.3 5.878
Proverbs 12.10 5.874
Revelation 6.15 5.872
2 Samuel 24.17 5.872
Genesis 49.7 5.871
1 Corinthians 6.2 5.87
1 Corinthians 4.3 5.869
Acts 7.51 5.868
Job 2.4 5.867
Genesis 49.6 5.861
Romans 2.14 5.842
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase