Early English Printed Sermons


A sermon preached July 26, 1682, in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter in York at the assizes for that county / by James Hickson ...

Hickson, James, b. 1650
Publisher: Printed for Richard Lambert bookseller in York
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1682
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A43730 ESTC ID: R34939 STC ID: H1930
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Proverbs XX, 8; Church of England; 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 3.0% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 1.5% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 85.5% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 8.4% -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 0.7% -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) 8.0% -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: 0.864
Evenness: 0.983
Part Prominence
New Testament (Tyndale) 12.201
Old Testament (ODRV) 4.742
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 2.559
Old Testament (Geneva) 1.177
New Testament (Geneva) 0.053
New Testament (ODRV) -0.027
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.935
New Testament (AKJV) -1.317
Diversity: 0.947
Evenness: 0.968
Book Prominence
Proverbs (AKJV) 11.5
1 Peter (Tyndale) 5.963
1 Timothy (AKJV) 5.744
Ecclesiastes (AKJV) 5.703
Psalms (Geneva) 4.637
1 Chronicles (Geneva) 3.145
Amos (AKJV) 3.027
Judges (AKJV) 2.988
Daniel (AKJV) 2.982
Ecclesiastes (Douay-Rheims) 2.812
1 Peter (ODRV) 2.792
Job (Geneva) 2.526
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 2.418
John (Geneva) 2.356
Luke (Geneva) 2.327
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.295
John (AKJV) 2.042
Luke (AKJV) 2.028
Psalms (ODRV) 2.015
Romans (ODRV) 1.975
Isaiah (AKJV) 1.943
Matthew (ODRV) 1.813
Matthew (AKJV) 1.711
Psalms (AKJV) 0.445
Diversity: 0.958
Evenness: 0.974
Chapter Prominence
Proverbs 20 (AKJV) 10.738
Psalms 58 (Geneva) 5.371
Ecclesiastes 8 (AKJV) 5.315
1 Timothy 2 (AKJV) 5.28
1 Peter 2 (Tyndale) 5.244
Psalms 149 (ODRV) 2.694
1 Chronicles 29 (Geneva) 2.69
Luke 4 (Geneva) 2.688
Daniel 4 (AKJV) 2.687
Psalms 9 (ODRV) 2.68
Ecclesiastes 11 (Douay-Rheims) 2.679
John 19 (Geneva) 2.679
Proverbs 20 (Douay-Rheims) 2.676
Job 34 (Geneva) 2.673
Psalms 9 (Geneva) 2.67
Proverbs 20 (Geneva) 2.67
Isaiah 32 (AKJV) 2.667
Amos 5 (AKJV) 2.665
Judges 21 (AKJV) 2.661
John 19 (AKJV) 2.656
Psalms 75 (AKJV) 2.648
Proverbs 8 (Geneva) 2.644
Luke 22 (AKJV) 2.636
Psalms 68 (AKJV) 2.629
Matthew 12 (ODRV) 2.625
Matthew 15 (AKJV) 2.625
John 3 (Geneva) 2.594
Romans 6 (ODRV) 2.591
1 Peter 2 (ODRV) 2.581
Psalms 82 (AKJV) 2.577
Diversity: 0.961
Evenness: 0.975
Verse Prominence
Proverbs 20.8 (AKJV) 10.246
Psalms 58.11 (Geneva) 5.109
Ecclesiastes 8.4 (AKJV) 5.107
1 Peter 2.14 (Tyndale) 5.1
1 Timothy 2.2 (AKJV) 5.087
Job 34.12 (Geneva) 2.563
Luke 4.34 (Geneva) 2.563
Proverbs 20.8 (Douay-Rheims) 2.563
Romans 6.22 (ODRV) 2.563
1 Peter 2.14 (ODRV) 2.563
Psalms 9.9 (ODRV) 2.562
Isaiah 32.1 (AKJV) 2.562
Psalms 9.7 (Geneva) 2.562
Daniel 4.17 (AKJV) 2.562
Proverbs 20.26 (Geneva) 2.561
Matthew 15.4 (AKJV) 2.561
1 Chronicles 29.23 (Geneva) 2.561
Ecclesiastes 11.7 (Douay-Rheims) 2.56
Matthew 12.26 (ODRV) 2.56
Luke 22.25 (AKJV) 2.56
John 3.20 (Geneva) 2.559
John 19.11 (AKJV) 2.559
John 19.11 (Geneva) 2.559
Psalms 149.8 (ODRV) 2.559
1 Peter 2.17 (ODRV) 2.554
Psalms 68.1 (AKJV) 2.553
Psalms 75.6 (AKJV) 2.548
Amos 5.24 (AKJV) 2.548
1 Timothy 2.1 (AKJV) 2.538
Proverbs 8.15 (Geneva) 2.535
Judges 21.25 (AKJV) 2.529
Psalms 82.6 (AKJV) 2.48
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: 0.5
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
Old Testament 2.666
New Testament 1.805
Diversity: 0.833
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Mark 15.361
1 Timothy 14.829
Genesis 14.042
Proverbs 13.619
Luke 13.449
Romans 12.712
Diversity: 0.833
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Mark 1 16.617
Proverbs 20 16.534
Genesis 18 16.51
Luke 22 16.439
1 Timothy 2 16.413
Romans 13 15.977
Diversity: 0.833
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Mark 1.24 16.661
Luke 22.25 16.651
Proverbs 20.8 16.64
Genesis 18.25 16.637
1 Timothy 2.1 16.599
1 Timothy 2.2 16.579
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase