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The ' Dialogus cum Heraclide ' measures 3613 words long. The direct quotes were removed first. The same list of 33 words was used. Between Eusebius and Origen, Origen is selected as the better candidate. Among 33 candidates, Origen was edged out slightly by one of the controls. This may just be an e...

Perhaps a published work in two volumes: Volume 1: Proving the Obvious (get people on board with the method). Volume 2: The Scintillating Stuff (Paul, Acts, Clement, Ignatius, and all the other sexy suggestions that have been made here, and more). Ben. :D I hadn't considered publishing books on sty...

You may really be on to something here. Breakthrough technology. Thank you! I wish I could claim that I invented this, but the basic idea of fitting frequently-used words to a normal distribution in reasonably-large samples and comparing authorship on the basis of several of them has been around a ...

Methodologically speaking, Peter, is it more secure that Origen is not the author than that Clement is ? Sort of. Yes, there is more probability behind the conclusion that Origen was not the author ... although that doesn't imply that "Clement is the author" is improbable, less probable t...

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Homily 1 on Jeremiah. This text was identified as (more like) Origen's (than anyone else). The "fragments from the catena" of "on Jeremiah" (which were closest to Clement of Alexandria) begin here: https://books.google.com/books?id=UFInXpKNapEC&pg=PA280 http://snag.gy/XU1Xy....

My title is tongue-in-cheek, based on Peter's stylometric results suggesting that Origen's Homily on Jeremiah is actually by Clement of Alexandria. Anyway, I decided to check out this document I have never heard of and found a translation I can preview at Google Books. https://books.google.com/book...

The text known as the ' Homiliae in Lucam ' divides into three samples of approximately 3000 words each. Quotes are removed first. When compared against Eusebius, 'Origen' is picked as the most likely candidate 3 out of 3 times (100% accuracy). When compared against 33 candidates, including the cont...

At 1865 words, the work known as the ' Fragmenta in librum primum Regnorum ' seems to be too short to get an accurate estimate of its Origen-ish-lish-ness. Either that, or it might not be by Origen. testsize: 1865 $VAR1 = 131; $VAR2 = 115; $VAR3 = 30; $VAR4 = 98; $VAR5 = 33; $VAR6 = 25; $VAR7 = 1; $...

The work called the ' De engastrimytho ( Homilia in i Reg. [i. Sam.] 28.3-25 )' measures 3574 words in length. Using the same 33 words used in every other test with Origen so far, and using the Contra Celsum as the sample representing the author 'Origen', the sample identifies Origen as the best can...