Mealand (1989) re‑examines positional stylometry as a tool for authorship attribution of the Pauline epistles, contrasting the divergent conclusions of earlier stylometric studies (Kenny’s broader single‑author hypothesis versus Morton’s more restrictive four‑epistle model) and evaluating the efficacy of particle frequencies, sentence‑length measures, and verb‑form usage. The paper contributes to the methodological debate on stylometric and authorship‑profiling techniques in New Testament scholarship.
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