Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable Lord-Mayor, the Aldermen, and citizens of London, at St. Mary Le Bow, on Thursday, November 5, 1696 by Samuel Bradford ...

Bradford, Samuel, 1652-1731
Publisher: Printed for B Aylmer
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1697
Approximate Era: WilliamAndMary
TCP ID: A29106 ESTC ID: R19690 STC ID: B4119
Subject Headings: Bible. -- N.T. -- Romans III, 8; Sermons, English -- 17th century;
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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 3.8% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 2.6% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 89.8% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.1% -inf%
sim_score Average cosine similarity score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% -inf%
cross_score Average cross encoder score of top Bible verse predictions per unit 0.8% -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) 4.6% -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: 0.857
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament (ODRV) 7.917
Old Testament (Geneva) 4.351
New Testament (Tyndale) 4.264
New Testament (Geneva) 3.227
New Testament (ODRV) 3.148
Old Testament (AKJV) 2.24
New Testament (AKJV) 1.858
Diversity: 0.94
Evenness: 0.988
Book Prominence
Philippians (AKJV) 9.238
Matthew (ODRV) 8.587
Esther (AKJV) 4.905
2 Thessalonians (Tyndale) 4.881
Acts (Tyndale) 4.466
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 4.252
Philippians (ODRV) 4.25
Acts (AKJV) 4.166
John (Geneva) 4.13
John (Tyndale) 4.123
Job (AKJV) 4.006
John (AKJV) 3.816
Psalms (ODRV) 3.79
Romans (ODRV) 3.75
Romans (Geneva) 3.54
Psalms (Geneva) 3.185
Romans (AKJV) 3.157
Psalms (AKJV) 2.219
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 0.989
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 12 (ODRV) 7.33
Romans 3 (ODRV) 7.283
Philippians 3 (AKJV) 7.256
Esther 9 (AKJV) 3.696
Psalms 47 (ODRV) 3.692
Acts 26 (Tyndale) 3.687
Psalms 148 (AKJV) 3.68
Job 10 (AKJV) 3.679
2 Thessalonians 2 (Tyndale) 3.677
2 Corinthians 9 (Geneva) 3.671
John 16 (Geneva) 3.664
Acts 26 (AKJV) 3.663
Job 13 (AKJV) 3.661
John 8 (Tyndale) 3.638
Psalms 118 (Geneva) 3.631
John 16 (AKJV) 3.621
Romans 3 (Geneva) 3.618
Romans 11 (AKJV) 3.593
Romans 6 (ODRV) 3.592
Romans 12 (Geneva) 3.588
Romans 3 (AKJV) 3.574
Philippians 3 (ODRV) 3.569
Psalms 118 (AKJV) 3.56
Philippians 4 (AKJV) 3.53
Diversity: 0.963
Evenness: 0.982
Verse Prominence
Romans 3.8 (AKJV) 8.096
Job 13.9 (AKJV) 5.404
Romans 3.8 (ODRV) 5.393
Matthew 12.25 (ODRV) 5.392
Philippians 3.16 (AKJV) 5.383
John 8.18 (Tyndale) 2.702
Psalms 118.14 (AKJV) 2.701
Psalms 118.14 (Geneva) 2.701
John 16.2 (Geneva) 2.701
Job 10.1 (AKJV) 2.701
Job 13.11 (AKJV) 2.701
Psalms 148.6 (AKJV) 2.701
Acts 26.11 (Tyndale) 2.7
Psalms 47.9 (ODRV) 2.7
John 16.3 (AKJV) 2.699
2 Corinthians 9.11 (Geneva) 2.699
Romans 3.8 (Geneva) 2.699
Esther 9.22 (AKJV) 2.699
Romans 3.7 (AKJV) 2.698
Acts 26.9 (AKJV) 2.697
Romans 3.6 (AKJV) 2.697
Philippians 3.15 (ODRV) 2.697
2 Thessalonians 2.11 (Tyndale) 2.695
Romans 6.1 (ODRV) 2.695
Romans 3.5 (AKJV) 2.695
Job 13.7 (AKJV) 2.695
Philippians 3.15 (AKJV) 2.695
Romans 11.36 (AKJV) 2.694
Romans 12.18 (Geneva) 2.688
Philippians 4.20 (AKJV) 2.679
Romans 11.33 (AKJV) 2.666
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
i
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: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 2.666
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.9
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Esther 9.544
Philippians 8.252
1 Timothy 8.162
Exodus 7.885
Job 7.757
Acts 6.797
John 6.794
Romans 6.045
Matthew 5.82
Psalms 4.828
Diversity: 0.929
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Esther 9 7.118
Psalms 48 7.097
Job 13 7.071
Acts 11 7.063
Exodus 15 7.049
Acts 26 7.009
Acts 9 6.966
Acts 10 6.965
John 16 6.941
Matthew 12 6.918
1 Timothy 1 6.913
Matthew 13 6.879
Romans 6 6.852
Philippians 3 6.77
Diversity: 0.917
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Job 13.8 8.332
Psalms 48.8 8.329
Esther 9.22 8.327
Exodus 15.2 8.326
Matthew 13.24 8.323
Job 13.7 8.32
Romans 6.1 8.315
Philippians 3.15 8.315
John 16.2 8.305
Philippians 3.16 8.297
Matthew 12.25 8.294
1 Timothy 1.13 8.29
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase