Early English Printed Sermons


A godlye, and pithie exhortation, made to the iud[ges of Sussex ...] By William Ouerton, Doctor of Diuinitie, and one of the Queenes Maiesties iustices appoynted for the peace vvithin the same countie

Overton, William, 1525?-1609
Publisher: Printed by R Newbery and H Bynneman
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1579
Approximate Era: Elizabeth
TCP ID: A68527 ESTC ID: S107302 STC ID: 18925
Subject Headings: 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 0.5% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 0.5% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 91.8% 100.0%
Foreign Percentage of units with foreign text 0.7% -inf%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 2.8% -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%
foreign_italicized Percentage of units with QP and foreign italicized text 0.7% -inf%
foreign_latin Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and foreign text 0.5% -inf%
foreign_latin_italicized Percentage of units with Latin Bible QP and italicized foreign text 0.5% -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: 0.851
Evenness: 0.919
Part Prominence
New Testament (Tyndale) 19.39
New Testament (Wycliffe) 4.261
Old Testament (Vulgate) 4.2
Apocrypha (AKJV) 1.325
New Testament (Geneva) 0.706
Old Testament (AKJV) -0.281
Old Testament (ODRV) -0.487
New Testament (AKJV) -0.663
Old Testament (Geneva) -4.052
New Testament (ODRV) -5.255
Diversity: 0.936
Evenness: 0.954
Book Prominence
Romans (Tyndale) 15.679
Matthew (Geneva) 5.505
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 5.395
Romans (AKJV) 4.824
Psalms (AKJV) 3.885
Psalms (Vulgate) 3.168
John (Wycliffe) 3.158
2 Peter (Tyndale) 3.076
James (Geneva) 2.911
2 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.89
Jeremiah (Geneva) 2.884
Hebrews (Tyndale) 2.882
Ecclesiasticus (AKJV) 2.693
James (AKJV) 2.688
Ephesians (ODRV) 2.682
Hebrews (ODRV) 2.622
1 Corinthians (Tyndale) 2.461
Proverbs (Geneva) 2.403
Matthew (Tyndale) 2.248
Psalms (ODRV) 2.123
Matthew (AKJV) 1.819
Psalms (Geneva) 1.518
Diversity: 0.949
Evenness: 0.961
Chapter Prominence
Romans 16 (Tyndale) 14.262
Psalms 24 (AKJV) 5.683
Romans 16 (AKJV) 5.68
Matthew 10 (Geneva) 5.646
1 Corinthians 1 (Geneva) 5.622
Psalms 2 (Vulgate) 2.854
Jeremiah 29 (Geneva) 2.849
John 9 (Wycliffe) 2.845
Ecclesiasticus 31 (AKJV) 2.842
2 Corinthians 1 (Tyndale) 2.816
Hebrews 12 (Tyndale) 2.813
Matthew 23 (Tyndale) 2.81
Psalms 2 (Geneva) 2.806
Psalms 2 (ODRV) 2.802
Ephesians 6 (ODRV) 2.799
Proverbs 3 (Geneva) 2.797
Hebrews 13 (ODRV) 2.791
2 Peter 3 (Tyndale) 2.787
James 3 (Geneva) 2.776
1 Corinthians 10 (Tyndale) 2.771
Matthew 7 (Geneva) 2.771
2 Corinthians 5 (Tyndale) 2.768
James 3 (AKJV) 2.753
Psalms 2 (AKJV) 2.751
Psalms 44 (AKJV) 2.748
Matthew 23 (AKJV) 2.744
Matthew 5 (AKJV) 2.676
Diversity: 0.951
Evenness: 0.962
Verse Prominence
Romans 16.17 (Tyndale) 13.88
Matthew 10.34 (Geneva) 5.553
Psalms 24.1 (AKJV) 5.543
Romans 16.17 (AKJV) 5.538
1 Corinthians 1.23 (Geneva) 5.535
1 Corinthians 10.32 (Tyndale) 2.777
Psalms 2.10 (Vulgate) 2.777
Psalms 2.8 (Vulgate) 2.777
Matthew 23.29 (Tyndale) 2.777
Ecclesiasticus 31.7 (AKJV) 2.777
Jeremiah 29.5 (Geneva) 2.777
Matthew 7.17 (Geneva) 2.775
Matthew 23.10 (AKJV) 2.774
Psalms 2.8 (AKJV) 2.771
Proverbs 3.14 (Geneva) 2.771
John 9.5 (Wycliffe) 2.769
Hebrews 13.14 (ODRV) 2.768
2 Corinthians 1.3 (Tyndale) 2.768
Hebrews 12.22 (Tyndale) 2.767
Psalms 2.10 (Geneva) 2.764
Psalms 2.11 (ODRV) 2.763
Ephesians 6.17 (ODRV) 2.763
2 Corinthians 5.10 (Tyndale) 2.756
Matthew 5.3 (AKJV) 2.753
James 3.16 (Geneva) 2.749
James 3.16 (AKJV) 2.748
2 Peter 3.18 (Tyndale) 2.744
Psalms 44.21 (AKJV) 2.725
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: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament 51.805
Diversity: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Romans 96.045
Diversity: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Romans 16 99.842
Diversity: 0.0
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Romans 16.17 99.93
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase