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Thus one Hieracas, an Egyptian heresiarch, grounded his position that Melchisedek (of whom it is said, Heb. vii.3, that he was like the Son of God, and abideth a priest continually) was the Holy Spirit, upon certain passages in chaps. ix. and xi. of the Ascension. "The angel showed me of all t...

Here are some sample files that you can work with.

Declension of Greek nouns and conjugation of Greek verbs can be conveniently accessed here: http://en.wiktionary.org/ Data for Greek word frequency can be accessed here: http://perseus.uchicago.edu/GreekFrequency.html With this information you can find other words that you might want to consider as ...

Methodologically you will encounter a few problems most frequently: (1) False Positive, and the Actual Author Is Listed among the Candidates Check that everything is set up sufficiently well: make sure that the 'Sample' is generous (>2000 words preferrably) and that the list of 'words' includes enou...

Updates: (a) A worked example, based on the works of Justin Martyr, has been posted above. (b) Some of the specific guidance (in the OP) for identifying a 'reliable' or 'unreliable' result has been adjusted, based on experience. (c) A list of ten additional words that may often be useful has been ad...

What's interesting is that if you plot the physical evidence of Mithraism (they built structures) in the third century against the indications for Christianity, you will see that they had claimed different parts of the empire. Mithraism became prominent in the west, which is primarily Latin-speaking...

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Here's a little study of whether the First Apology (attributed to Justin) and the Second Apology (attributed to Justin) were written by the author of the Dialogue with Trypho (attributed to Justin). It is intended as an example of the sort of thing you can do with the program and also as a sort of s...

Would there be any way of detecting whether it was Matthew that used Luke? With the understanding that Luke is probably "contaminated" by the catholic editor who compiled Luke-Acts, and Matthew would have used an earlier version (perhaps Evangelion). By the way, the "Acts" facto...

Would there be any way of detecting whether it was Matthew that used Luke? With the understanding that Luke is probably "contaminated" by the catholic editor who compiled Luke-Acts, and Matthew would have used an earlier version (perhaps Evangelion). I don't know... at least, I don't know...