Early English Printed Sermons


Persall, John, 1633-1702

Number of relevant publications in EEBO-TCP: 2
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Textual Features and Statistics

Nota Bene: QP stands for "quotation/paraphrase." A "unit" stands for a segment produced by EEPS' segmentation unit or an individual marginal note. Adjacent references are those that are located in the same or adjacent segment or note. Chapter-level citations are relevant if the chapter matches that of the query. For book-level queries, all references to the same Bible book are relevant. A "Latin Bible QP" is a quotation or paraphrase of any verse from a Bible that follows the Latin Vulgate tradition: the Vulgate, Douay-Rheims Version, the ODRV, and Wycliffe's version.
Feature Description In-Text Marginal
cited Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent citation 1.9% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.7% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 91.4% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 3.0% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 6.1% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.7% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.6% -inf%
near_quotations Percentage of units that have high lexical similarity with their Bible verse predictions (any type of score greater than the mean + standard deviation of that score type) 1.3% -inf%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 3.0% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 2.4% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 2.4% -inf%



Quotations and Paraphrases

Rather than examine the frequency or proportion of references, it is far more useful to determine which references are most prominent for a citing entity. The visualizations below show the most prominent scriptural references within all publications per year. Prominence, displayed as the value below each label, is measured using the metric of Outgoing Relative Citational Prominence (ORCP) proposed by Wahle et al. (2023). In this case, a positive prominence value for a reference R in a given year means that R constitutes a greater percentage of all the references cited by publications in that year than the average citation percentage of R per year. A negative value indicates that a given reference constitutes a proportion lesser than average. A value of negative infinity means that the query reference does not occur in the citation or QP of a citing entity. A value of "%" (without any numeral value) means that there are no citations or QP corresponding to the query reference.

For quotational prominence, only the predictions with the highest cosine similarity scores for each subsegmented or whole unit of a segment or note are included for consideration. The average quotational prominence for a citing entity is the mean of the prominence percentage points for all references R_ALL that are relevant to the query reference such that each reference R in R_ALL has the highest cosine similarity score with a part or the whole of its covering body segment or marginal note. The percentages of top predictions from each Bible version are displayed in a table below.

For citational prominence, only pluasible scriptural citations and ones where the original phrase does not begin with a lowercase word are included for consideration. A scriptural citation is plausible if its numbering exists in any of the Bibles considered by this project. There are over 76 thousand such excluded candidates out of 1.2 million parsed citational units in total. Each of the four side-by-side tables below also have associated diversity and evenness scores; Simpson's Diversity Index ranges from 0 to 1 such that a higher score indicates a greater species diversity. Likewise, the Shannon Index indicates more evenness in the distribution of individuals in a group when its value approaches 1.


Diversity: 0.876
Evenness: 0.977
Part Prominence
Apocrypha (Vulgate) 8.488
New Testament (Geneva) 7.649
Apocrypha (ODRV) 7.064
Old Testament (Vulgate) 6.739
New Testament (AKJV) 6.597
New Testament (Vulgate) 3.663
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.584
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.439
New Testament (ODRV) -1.382
Diversity: 0.954
Evenness: 0.986
Book Prominence
John (Vulgate) 6.875
1 John (Geneva) 6.685
John (Geneva) 6.32
John (AKJV) 6.106
Wisdom (Vulgate) 3.54
Ecclesiastes (Vulgate) 3.539
2 Peter (Vulgate) 3.512
Genesis (Vulgate) 3.497
Psalms (Vulgate) 3.383
Wisdom (ODRV) 3.351
1 Corinthians (Vulgate) 3.295
Matthew (Vulgate) 3.25
1 John (Tyndale) 3.089
1 John (ODRV) 3.08
Genesis (ODRV) 3.039
Ephesians (ODRV) 2.949
John (Tyndale) 2.736
John (ODRV) 2.571
Luke (AKJV) 2.49
1 Corinthians (ODRV) 2.463
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 2.325
Romans (Geneva) 2.182
Matthew (AKJV) 2.163
Romans (AKJV) 1.953
Diversity: 0.967
Evenness: 0.988
Chapter Prominence
John 4 (Vulgate) 5.252
John 10 (Geneva) 5.216
John 10 (AKJV) 5.205
John 14 (AKJV) 5.188
1 John 5 (Geneva) 5.174
Wisdom 12 (Vulgate) 2.63
Ecclesiastes 2 (Vulgate) 2.63
Matthew 9 (Vulgate) 2.63
Genesis 35 (Vulgate) 2.629
Psalms 54 (Vulgate) 2.629
Genesis 35 (ODRV) 2.621
John 11 (Vulgate) 2.614
2 Peter 1 (Vulgate) 2.611
Wisdom 2 (ODRV) 2.606
1 Corinthians 12 (Vulgate) 2.601
Luke 8 (AKJV) 2.6
John 4 (Tyndale) 2.587
John 4 (Geneva) 2.585
John 15 (Geneva) 2.584
John 4 (ODRV) 2.58
1 John 5 (Tyndale) 2.578
John 11 (Tyndale) 2.574
Genesis 1 (ODRV) 2.561
John 11 (ODRV) 2.559
1 John 2 (ODRV) 2.556
1 Corinthians 13 (Geneva) 2.555
1 John 5 (ODRV) 2.544
John 3 (ODRV) 2.533
Romans 12 (Geneva) 2.517
Ephesians 4 (ODRV) 2.476
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 2.461
Romans 12 (AKJV) 2.455
1 Corinthians 15 (ODRV) 2.339
Diversity: 0.968
Evenness: 0.989
Verse Prominence
John 4.49 (Vulgate) 5.126
John 14.23 (AKJV) 5.124
John 10.30 (Geneva) 5.123
John 10.30 (AKJV) 5.123
1 John 5.7 (Geneva) 5.115
Wisdom 12.1 (Vulgate) 2.563
John 15.1 (Geneva) 2.563
Ecclesiastes 2.10 (Vulgate) 2.563
Genesis 35.13 (Vulgate) 2.563
John 4.49 (Geneva) 2.563
John 4.49 (ODRV) 2.563
John 11.8 (ODRV) 2.563
John 11.35 (Vulgate) 2.563
Luke 8.54 (AKJV) 2.563
Matthew 9.25 (Vulgate) 2.563
John 4.52 (Tyndale) 2.563
Psalms 54.16 (Vulgate) 2.563
John 3.34 (ODRV) 2.562
John 11.43 (Tyndale) 2.562
1 Corinthians 12.4 (Vulgate) 2.561
1 John 5.7 (Tyndale) 2.561
Genesis 35.13 (ODRV) 2.561
1 John 2.23 (ODRV) 2.56
Wisdom 2.23 (ODRV) 2.56
1 John 5.7 (ODRV) 2.556
John 11.17 (Tyndale) 2.555
Ephesians 4.18 (ODRV) 2.553
Romans 12.5 (Geneva) 2.553
Matthew 5.48 (AKJV) 2.551
1 Corinthians 13.13 (Geneva) 2.55
2 Peter 1.7 (Vulgate) 2.55
Genesis 1.27 (ODRV) 2.549
1 Corinthians 15.41 (ODRV) 2.534
Romans 12.5 (AKJV) 2.523
Segment No., Location Verse & Version Verse Text Text Is a Partial Textual Segment/Note Adjacent References Cosine Similarity Score Cross Encoder Score Okapi BM25 Score



Citations
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The index of citation indicates its position within the text of the segment or a particular note of the segment. For example, if 'Note 0' (i.e., the first note) of this segment has three citations, the citation with index 0 is its first citation, inclusive of all its parsed components.

Diversity: 0.444
Evenness: 0.918
Part Prominence
New Testament 20.2
Old Testament -12.776
Diversity: 0.72
Evenness: 0.961
Book Prominence
Matthew 36.271
Lamentations 19.218
Genesis 17.426
John 17.037
Diversity: 0.844
Evenness: 0.98
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 28 24.754
Lamentations 4 12.403
Genesis 1 12.335
John 10 12.302
John 17 12.275
Genesis 3 12.229
John 14 12.217
Diversity: 0.844
Evenness: 0.98
Verse Prominence
Matthew 28.19 24.922
Lamentations 4.2 12.494
John 10.9 12.491
Genesis 3.3 12.49
John 17.20 12.489
Genesis 1.27 12.485
John 14.23 12.484
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase