A software to find actual writer of Bible
For centuries, it has been debated on who exactly wrote the Bible. Now, scientists have developed a computer programme which they claim sheds much more light on the sources of the various religious texts within it.
Israeli scientists and experts of the holy book have written an algorithm that analyses the writing styles found within various sections. While the programme can’t pinpoint an individual author, the researchers said, it can determine when a passage has been written by more than one person and can detect the point at which a new author has taken over.
The new computer programme, according to the researchers, will be able to help with these kinds of debates by processing how functional words and synonyms are used within various passages, which can reveal whether different people were involved in producing the material.
The researchers tested their software by feeding it mixed up passages from two Hebrew books of Jeremiah and Ezekiel — and asking the computer to re-sort them. It did so with 99 per cent accuracy.
