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The Perfect Peshitta Text
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Shlama Akhi Otto,

Thank you for responding. I am happy to defend my position.
I have already addressed the matter of the faulty text:
Quote:It is true that the long codes I found depend on the exact letter number of the slightly flawed original Codefinder edition I used (It had 50 extra letters due to the repeated verse of Luke 6:14) . The subsequent short Name codes experiment I performed does not depend on that same text; it works for both an Eastern text, like Khabouris or the edition Paul has on Peshitta.org as Word documents with just the 22 book canon, and it works as well for the critical edition based mostly on Western mss. with the 27 book canon. It is for this reason that I accept all 27 books of that edition as part of the original inspired Aramaic New Testament, and the text of the majority collation as the original text of The Aramaic NT. This does not mean that the edition is letter perfect as currently presented; it does mean that this 27 book canon is original and that the text is extremely close to its original state, and that the real differences are relatively insignificant.

I personally believe God put codes in the Hebrew-Aramaic scriptures as a sign of His authorship of those scriptures, though not to prove the text is in perfect condition as currently constituted. This means He providentially encoded the editions used to be discovered in our time by computer, to encourage us to see His omniscience in foreknowledge and His guidance in preserving the Holy books intact. I believe He also wants us to more carefully ascertain the original readings using all the materials and technology at our disposal; most of all, He wants us to see the Divinity of the message we have in The Holy Bible and to accept it as such, to live by the faith and hope it gives us, and to practice the love to which it enjoins us.

As to the variances for calculating Z scores, I use the square root of the expected number of occurrences to calculate 1 standard deviation. I used it also for the control text, and it yields a mean standard deviation of 0.98 for 367 data points. What formula would you use? Please remember that a professional statistician approved the formulas I used, and I found plenty of corroboration for this from other sources.

While you say the variances are wrong, you then seem to say that I should expect abnormal variances, since the text does not have random letter distributions. Am I reading you correctly? Which is it?
Why should I expect normal Z scores if all literary texts have non random skip texts?
On the other hand, if I get the variances right, I should expect normal Z scores?

Exactly what are you saying?

Other works of literature do not produce high Z scores. You are misunderstanding the nature of skip texts. They are random, especially when you are skipping 1000 letters at a time or more in each word search, as I did for my experiment. Show me results for any text in which the mean Z score for hundreds of searches of 95 different words is 4.85 (in in 1.6 million probability) and I will listen to your argument.

Blessings,

Dave
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The Perfect Peshitta Text - by ograabe - 06-07-2008, 07:51 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by gbausc - 06-09-2008, 06:38 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by ograabe - 06-10-2008, 06:49 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by gbausc - 06-10-2008, 08:55 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by Stephen Silver - 06-16-2008, 10:57 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by *Albion* - 06-17-2008, 01:11 AM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by gbausc - 06-17-2008, 04:59 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by ograabe - 06-25-2008, 01:26 AM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by gbausc - 06-25-2008, 02:54 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by ograabe - 06-27-2008, 01:07 AM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by gbausc - 06-27-2008, 04:02 AM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by Stephen Silver - 06-27-2008, 05:49 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by ograabe - 06-28-2008, 01:36 PM
Re: The Perfect Peshitta Text - by gbausc - 06-28-2008, 05:36 PM

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