Posted: Jun 29, 2011 8:29 PM Updated: Jun 29, 2011 8:32 PM
JERUSALEM (AP) - Software developed by an Israeli team is
offering new hints about what researchers believe to be the
multiple hands that wrote the Bible. The new software analyzes
style and word choices to distinguish parts of a single text
written by different authors. When applied to the Bible it
teases out distinct writing voices. What the algorithm won't
answer is whether -- and exactly how -- the Bible is God's Word.
Bible scholars generally accept that God used the distinct
styles and voices of inspired authors. But the software suggests
different authors for parts of the Bible's first five books,
authorship that traditionally has been ascribed to Moses alone.
It also suggests two authors for the book of Isaiah. (Copyright
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