Early English Printed Sermons


The Parliaments commission: delivered in a sermon, upon Nehemiah chap. 2 vers. 19, 20. / By J. Durham.

Durham, James, 1622-1658
Publisher: Printed by R Austin and A Coe
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1643
Approximate Era: CivilWar
TCP ID: A81897 ESTC ID: R3805 STC ID: D2821
Subject Headings: Bible. -- O.T. -- Nehemiah II, 19-20; 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 6.3% -inf%
cited_exact Percentage of units with QP and an adjacent matching citation 3.4% -inf%
originality Percentage of units that do not exhibit scriptural text reuse 83.1% 100.0%
Italicization Percentage of units with italicized spans of text 13.1% -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 0.7% -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) 5.5% -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: 0.909
Evenness: 1.0
Part Prominence
New Testament (Wycliffe) 7.47
Apocrypha (Douay-Rheims) 5.687
New Testament (Vulgate) 4.282
Old Testament (ODRV) 2.722
Old Testament (Douay-Rheims) 0.539
Old Testament (Geneva) -0.844
New Testament (Tyndale) -0.931
New Testament (Geneva) -1.967
New Testament (ODRV) -2.047
Old Testament (AKJV) -2.955
New Testament (AKJV) -3.337
Diversity: 0.974
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Nehemiah (Douay-Rheims) 2.576
Nehemiah (Geneva) 2.563
Matthew (Wycliffe) 2.549
Galatians (Vulgate) 2.537
Nehemiah (AKJV) 2.519
Daniel (ODRV) 2.496
1 Kings (Geneva) 2.426
1 Samuel (Geneva) 2.389
Daniel (AKJV) 2.388
Daniel (Geneva) 2.365
2 Timothy (Geneva) 2.289
2 Peter (Geneva) 2.237
Galatians (Geneva) 2.148
Revelation (Geneva) 2.119
Revelation (AKJV) 2.097
Acts (Geneva) 2.087
Genesis (ODRV) 2.085
Galatians (ODRV) 2.047
Ecclesiasticus (Douay-Rheims) 1.954
2 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.883
Luke (Tyndale) 1.856
Proverbs (Douay-Rheims) 1.824
Acts (AKJV) 1.797
John (Geneva) 1.762
Genesis (AKJV) 1.733
Ephesians (AKJV) 1.681
Romans (Tyndale) 1.644
Matthew (Tyndale) 1.546
Matthew (Geneva) 1.47
John (AKJV) 1.447
Luke (AKJV) 1.434
Psalms (ODRV) 1.421
1 Corinthians (Geneva) 1.36
Matthew (ODRV) 1.218
Romans (Geneva) 1.171
Matthew (AKJV) 1.117
Psalms (Geneva) 0.817
Psalms (AKJV) -0.15
Diversity: 0.979
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Matthew 15 (Wycliffe) 2.127
1 Samuel 29 (Geneva) 2.126
Nehemiah 2 (Douay-Rheims) 2.125
Nehemiah 2 (Geneva) 2.124
Genesis 21 (ODRV) 2.121
Acts 25 (AKJV) 2.121
Acts 25 (Geneva) 2.121
Nehemiah 2 (AKJV) 2.117
Daniel 5 (ODRV) 2.117
Matthew 2 (Geneva) 2.116
Ecclesiasticus 39 (Douay-Rheims) 2.114
Daniel 3 (ODRV) 2.113
Daniel 5 (AKJV) 2.113
Genesis 21 (AKJV) 2.113
Daniel 5 (Geneva) 2.111
John 18 (Geneva) 2.111
1 Kings 18 (Geneva) 2.11
Galatians 5 (Vulgate) 2.109
2 Timothy 1 (Geneva) 2.101
Matthew 15 (Geneva) 2.099
Luke 20 (AKJV) 2.098
Psalms 120 (AKJV) 2.097
Psalms 112 (Geneva) 2.097
Luke 9 (Tyndale) 2.094
Proverbs 10 (Douay-Rheims) 2.09
Romans 9 (Tyndale) 2.087
Acts 20 (AKJV) 2.085
Matthew 27 (Geneva) 2.082
Psalms 113 (ODRV) 2.079
Galatians 4 (Geneva) 2.076
Revelation 20 (Geneva) 2.074
Acts 4 (AKJV) 2.073
Matthew 24 (Tyndale) 2.073
Psalms 2 (ODRV) 2.072
Proverbs 1 (Douay-Rheims) 2.07
Galatians 4 (ODRV) 2.07
1 Corinthians 9 (Geneva) 2.069
Revelation 20 (AKJV) 2.069
John 18 (AKJV) 2.066
2 Corinthians 6 (Geneva) 2.051
Matthew 15 (AKJV) 2.05
2 Timothy 4 (Geneva) 2.034
2 Peter 3 (Geneva) 2.032
Romans 1 (Geneva) 2.025
Matthew 7 (ODRV) 2.008
Matthew 10 (AKJV) 1.986
Ephesians 4 (AKJV) 1.775
Diversity: 0.98
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Nehemiah 2.19 (Geneva) 2.0
Luke 20.3 (AKJV) 2.0
Daniel 5.30 (ODRV) 2.0
Acts 25.14 (Geneva) 2.0
Galatians 5.18 (Vulgate) 2.0
Daniel 3.96 (ODRV) 1.999
Nehemiah 2.19 (Douay-Rheims) 1.999
Nehemiah 2.20 (AKJV) 1.999
Matthew 27.41 (Geneva) 1.999
Daniel 5.1 (AKJV) 1.999
Daniel 5.5 (Geneva) 1.999
Genesis 21.10 (AKJV) 1.999
Genesis 21.10 (ODRV) 1.999
1 Samuel 29.5 (Geneva) 1.999
John 18.37 (Geneva) 1.999
Acts 4.2 (AKJV) 1.999
Acts 25.14 (AKJV) 1.999
John 18.24 (AKJV) 1.999
Romans 9.19 (Tyndale) 1.999
Matthew 15.11 (Wycliffe) 1.999
Matthew 15.13 (AKJV) 1.999
Ecclesiasticus 39.13 (Douay-Rheims) 1.999
2 Peter 3.3 (Geneva) 1.998
Psalms 120.2 (AKJV) 1.998
Acts 20.23 (AKJV) 1.998
Luke 9.62 (Tyndale) 1.998
Matthew 15.14 (Geneva) 1.998
Nehemiah 2.20 (Geneva) 1.998
Revelation 20.15 (AKJV) 1.998
Revelation 20.15 (Geneva) 1.998
Galatians 4.30 (ODRV) 1.997
Matthew 2.2 (Geneva) 1.997
2 Timothy 1.8 (Geneva) 1.996
Matthew 24.13 (Tyndale) 1.996
Matthew 7.3 (ODRV) 1.995
Galatians 4.29 (Geneva) 1.995
1 Kings 18.17 (Geneva) 1.995
2 Corinthians 6.14 (Geneva) 1.995
Psalms 2.4 (ODRV) 1.994
Proverbs 1.26 (Douay-Rheims) 1.993
Matthew 10.33 (AKJV) 1.991
2 Corinthians 6.15 (Geneva) 1.989
1 Corinthians 9.24 (Geneva) 1.988
Psalms 112.6 (Geneva) 1.988
Proverbs 10.7 (Douay-Rheims) 1.988
Romans 1.1 (Geneva) 1.986
2 Timothy 4.7 (Geneva) 1.976
John 18.36 (AKJV) 1.972
Psalms 113.9 (ODRV) 1.972
Ephesians 4.5 (AKJV) 1.964
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: 0.947
Evenness: 1.0
Book Prominence
Nehemiah 4.718
Judges 4.166
2 Chronicles 4.027
2 Peter 3.979
2 Kings 3.945
Daniel 3.928
Numbers 3.834
2 Timothy 3.821
2 Samuel 3.649
1 Samuel 3.481
Exodus 3.148
Revelation 3.137
Jeremiah 3.022
Genesis 2.638
Proverbs 2.216
Acts 2.06
Luke 2.045
Matthew 1.083
Psalms 0.092
Diversity: 0.955
Evenness: 1.0
Chapter Prominence
Judges 11 4.528
Jeremiah 38 4.528
Nehemiah 2 4.521
Genesis 21 4.501
Exodus 1 4.501
2 Chronicles 36 4.493
1 Samuel 14 4.489
2 Kings 18 4.488
2 Samuel 6 4.486
2 Kings 2 4.474
Daniel 5 4.459
Matthew 2 4.453
Revelation 20 4.447
Luke 9 4.403
Acts 16 4.394
Numbers 16 4.392
Proverbs 3 4.364
2 Peter 3 4.352
Acts 20 4.291
Psalms 2 4.278
2 Timothy 3 4.249
Matthew 25 4.175
Diversity: 0.667
Evenness: 1.0
Verse Prominence
Nehemiah 2.20 33.326
Nehemiah 2.19 33.325
Matthew 25.20 33.324
Segment No., Location Possible Citation Adjacent References Phrase