Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached in Lent-assizes, holden for the county of Bucks, at Alesbury, March 8th 1671/2 being Ash-Wednesday by Ad. Littleton ...

Littleton, Adam, 1627-1694
Publisher: Printed by J Macock for R Davis of Oxon
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1671
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A48734 ESTC ID: R21353 STC ID: L2570
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Samuel, 1st, VII, 15-16; Lenten sermons; 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 2.6% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.0% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 88.2% 100.0%
NonLatinAlphabet Percentage of units with a NonLatinAlphabet placeholder 0.2% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 10.8% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -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) 1.4% -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: 0.876
Evenness: 0.977
Part Prominence
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 9.63
Apocrypha (Vulgate) 8.733
Old Testament (AKJV) 6.136
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 0.982
Book Prominence
James (AKJV) 7.462
Judges (AKJV) 5.167
1 Kings (Douay-Rheims) 5.129
1 Samuel (AKJV) 4.986
Hebrews (AKJV) 4.378
Ecclesiasticus (Vulgate) 2.65
Joshua (AKJV) 2.56
Micah (AKJV) 2.54
Titus (ODRV) 2.481
1 Samuel (Geneva) 2.46
Deuteronomy (Douay-Rheims) 2.283
James (Geneva) 2.28
1 John (Geneva) 2.242
1 Peter (Tyndale) 2.214
1 Timothy (Geneva) 2.181
Acts (Geneva) 2.159
Genesis (ODRV) 2.156
Deuteronomy (AKJV) 2.135
Galatians (ODRV) 2.118
Galatians (AKJV) 2.031
Acts (AKJV) 1.869
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 1.83
Isaiah (Douay-Rheims) 1.827
Genesis (AKJV) 1.804
Matthew (Geneva) 1.541
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 1.513
Romans (ODRV) 1.452
Matthew (AKJV) 1.188
1 Corinthians (AKJV) 1.135
Psalms (Geneva) 0.888
Psalms (AKJV) -0.079
Diversity: 0.97
Evenness: 0.985
Chapter Prominence
James 5 (AKJV) 6.746
1 Kings 7 (Douay-Rheims) 4.54
1 Samuel 7 (AKJV) 4.534
Judges 21 (AKJV) 4.503
Hebrews 6 (AKJV) 4.46
Ecclesiasticus 45 (Vulgate) 2.272
1 Samuel 19 (Geneva) 2.269
Joshua 5 (AKJV) 2.268
Deuteronomy 10 (Douay-Rheims) 2.263
Isaiah 13 (Douay-Rheims) 2.26
Judges 17 (AKJV) 2.258
Genesis 25 (ODRV) 2.258
Genesis 31 (AKJV) 2.257
Deuteronomy 33 (AKJV) 2.255
1 Samuel 15 (Geneva) 2.252
1 Samuel 3 (AKJV) 2.248
1 Corinthians 6 (Tyndale) 2.241
Acts 7 (Geneva) 2.234
1 Samuel 15 (AKJV) 2.231
James 5 (Geneva) 2.23
Micah 6 (AKJV) 2.227
1 Peter 4 (Tyndale) 2.224
Acts 13 (AKJV) 2.224
1 Corinthians 6 (ODRV) 2.22
Galatians 1 (ODRV) 2.203
Matthew 23 (Geneva) 2.198
1 Timothy 1 (Geneva) 2.196
1 Peter 1 (Tyndale) 2.193
Titus 2 (ODRV) 2.188
Romans 1 (ODRV) 2.181
Psalms 122 (Geneva) 2.17
1 Corinthians 6 (AKJV) 2.157
1 John 3 (Geneva) 2.153
Romans 3 (ODRV) 2.149
Psalms 82 (AKJV) 2.147
Matthew 5 (Geneva) 2.128
Galatians 5 (AKJV) 2.105
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 2.092
Diversity: 0.975
Evenness: 0.987
Verse Prominence
James 5.12 (AKJV) 5.877
1 Kings 7.15 (Douay-Rheims) 3.92
1 Samuel 7.16 (AKJV) 3.918
Hebrews 6.16 (AKJV) 3.909
Judges 21.25 (AKJV) 3.887
1 Samuel 7.15 (AKJV) 1.96
1 Samuel 7.17 (AKJV) 1.96
1 Samuel 3.20 (AKJV) 1.96
Genesis 25.34 (ODRV) 1.96
1 Peter 4.9 (Tyndale) 1.96
Acts 7.27 (Geneva) 1.96
Acts 13.20 (AKJV) 1.96
1 Samuel 19.18 (Geneva) 1.96
Ecclesiasticus 45.28 (Vulgate) 1.96
Joshua 5.9 (AKJV) 1.96
Genesis 31.46 (AKJV) 1.96
Isaiah 13.19 (Douay-Rheims) 1.96
1 Corinthians 6.7 (ODRV) 1.96
Matthew 5.27 (AKJV) 1.96
Matthew 5.34 (AKJV) 1.96
Matthew 5.36 (AKJV) 1.96
Galatians 5.23 (AKJV) 1.959
Matthew 23.22 (Geneva) 1.959
Deuteronomy 33.5 (AKJV) 1.959
1 Samuel 15.33 (Geneva) 1.959
1 Corinthians 6.7 (Tyndale) 1.959
Matthew 5.33 (Geneva) 1.959
Matthew 5.35 (AKJV) 1.959
Deuteronomy 10.12 (Douay-Rheims) 1.958
Romans 1.32 (ODRV) 1.958
1 Samuel 15.33 (AKJV) 1.958
Galatians 1.20 (ODRV) 1.958
1 Timothy 1.8 (Geneva) 1.957
1 Corinthians 6.7 (AKJV) 1.956
1 Corinthians 6.8 (AKJV) 1.956
Psalms 122.5 (Geneva) 1.955
Matthew 5.37 (Geneva) 1.954
James 5.12 (Geneva) 1.954
1 John 3.4 (Geneva) 1.953
Judges 17.6 (AKJV) 1.952
Romans 3.31 (ODRV) 1.952
Psalms 82.1 (AKJV) 1.939
1 Peter 1.15 (Tyndale) 1.938
Micah 6.8 (AKJV) 1.937
Titus 2.12 (ODRV) 1.926
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: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 2.666
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Micah 13.502
Joshua 13.41
1 Samuel 12.503
Deuteronomy 12.155
1 Corinthians 10.995
Romans 10.331
Psalms 9.114
Diversity: 0.889
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Joshua 15 11.09
1 Samuel 7 11.062
Deuteronomy 10 11.053
Deuteronomy 33 11.017
Deuteronomy 17 10.994
Micah 6 10.985
Psalms 122 10.961
1 Corinthians 6 10.825
Romans 13 10.422
Diversity: 0.8
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
1 Samuel 7.15 19.994
Deuteronomy 17.12 19.984
Deuteronomy 33.5 19.978
Deuteronomy 10.12 19.975
Micah 6.8 19.95
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase