Load packages and dataįirst, we’ll load the necessary packages and data: It’ll be on CRAN once they open up for submissions again in January. Install it with remotes::install_github("andrewheiss/scriptuRs") or devtools::install_github("andrewheiss/scriptuRs"). The complete LDS scriptures are available online for free as an open source database, and I’ve downloaded that CSV file so many times for other little mini projects I’ve done, so I decided to finally just stick it all in a new package so I wouldn’t need to keep downloading the data by hand. How unique is the word “disciple” in John compared to the synoptic gospels? What are the most unique verbs in John? What words are the most predictive that we’re in John?Īs I started writing this post, I also accidentally created an R package. In the course of teaching data visualization, I’ve dabbled in text-based analysis with R, and as a PhD student I wrote a couple of now-dormant papers that used cool digital humanities methods to analyze large corpora of text, so my curiosity was piqued. For instance, Huntsman states that John focuses more on themes of discipleship (since the word “disciple” appears 87 times in John), and on “knowing,” “believing,” and “doing,” which appear more often in John than the other gospels. Near the beginning, Huntsman discusses several word frequencies that make John unique compared to the synoptic gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke (which all draw on the same Q source). As part of my goal to read some sort of religiously themed book every day ( what I’ve read so far), I’ve been reading Eric Huntsman’s new Becoming the Beloved Disciple, a close reading of the Gospel of John from an LDS perspective.
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