Distant Reader - subject-jews-freebo

Introduction

This is a Distant Reader "study carrel", a set of structured data intended to help the student, researcher, or scholar use & understand a corpus.

This study carrel was created on 2021-05-24 by Eric Morgan <emorgan@nd.edu>. The carrel was created using the Distant Reader zip2carrel process, and the input was a Zip file locally cached with the name input-file.zip. Documents in the Zip file have been saved in a cache, and each of them have been transformed & saved as a set of plain text files. All of the analysis -- "reading" -- has been done against these plain text files. For example, a short narrative report has been created. This Web page is a more verbose version of that report.

All study carrels are self-contained -- no Internet connection is necessary to use them. Download this carrel for offline reading. The carrel is made up of many subdirectories and data files. The manifest describes each one in greater detail.

Size

There are 23 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 2,790,310 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 121,317 words long. If you dig deeper, then you might want to save yourself some time by reading a shorter item. On the other hand, if your desire is for more detail, then you might consider reading a longer item. The following charts illustrate the overall size of the carrel.

Readability

On a scale from 0 to 100, where 0 is very difficult and 100 is very easy, the documents have an average readability score of 92. Consequently, if you want to read something more simplistic, then consider a document with a higher score. If you want something more specialized, then consider something with a lower score. The following charts illustrate the overall readability of the carrel.

Word Frequencies

By merely counting & tabulating the frequency of individual words or phrases, you can begin to get an understanding of the carrel's "aboutness". Excluding "stop words", some of the more frequent words include:

god, one, king, made, time, will, vnto, great, shall, men, also, yet, may, things, christ, first, people, many, place, now, might, man, jews, de, et, law, us, called, two, lord, day, world, haue, therefore, make, much, without, good, iewes, temple, death, thereof, came, whole, like, come, way, himselfe, citie, words

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are The famous and memorable vvorkes of Iosephus, a man of much honour and learning among the Iewes. Faithfully translated out of the Latin, and French, by Tho. Lodge Doctor in Physicke, A continuation of the exposition of the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Hebrews viz, on the sixth, seventh, eight, ninth, and tenth chapters : wherein together with the explication of the text and context, the priesthood of Christ ... are declared, explained and confirmed : as also, the pleas of the Jews for the continuance and perpetuity of their legal worship, with the doctrine of the principal writers of the Socinians about these things, are examined and disproved / by J. Owen ..., and A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the confines thereof with the history of the Old and New Testament acted thereon / by Thomas Fuller ....

The most frequent two-word phrases (bigrams) include:

high priest, christs birth, lord christ, jesus christ, every one, hedio ruffinus, one another, new covenant, holy place, holy ghost, old testament, new testament, neere vnto, long time, vnto god, two things, came vnto, christs natiuitie, thousand years, euerie one, mandatum est, right hand, vobis mandamus, young men, great number, like manner, let us, taken away, ita quod, humane nature, apud westm, may observe, next day, haue beene, rege apud, good things, high priests, first place, whole world, thousand men, et ideo, take away, lord jesus, first covenant, two thousand, one day, every day, many things, ad custodiam, sent vnto

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are A bosome opened to the Jewes holding forth to others some reasons for our receiving them into our nation. Ievves in America, or, Probabilities that the Americans are of that race. With the removall of some contrary reasonings, and earnest desires for effectuall endeavours to make them Christian. / Proposed by Tho: Thorovvgood, B.D. one of the Assembly of Divines., and A short demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued remitter into England. Comprising an exact chronological relation of their first admission into, their ill deportment, misdemeanors, condition, sufferings, oppressions, slaughters, plunders, by popular insurrections, and regal exactions in; and their total, final banishment by judgment and edict of Parliament, out of England, never to return again: collected out of the best historians. With a brief collection of such English laws, Scriptures, as seem strongly to plead, and conclude against their readmission into England, especially at this season, and against the general calling of the Jewish nation. With an answer to the chief allegations for their introduction. / By William Prynne Esq; a bencher of Lincolnes-Inne..

While often deemed superficial or sophomoric, rudimentary frequencies and their associated "word clouds" can be quite insightful:

Keywords

Sets of keywords -- statistically significant words -- can be enumerated by comparing the relative frequency of words with the number of times the words appear in an entire corpus. Some of the most statistically significant keywords in the carrel include:

god, lord, king, jews, law, church, christians, land, christ, chap, temple, religion, jewish, israelites, iews, english, city, world, tcp, scripture, prophet, moses, england, people, new, nation, israel, iewes, holy, gentiles, father, children, book, testament, tabernacle, synagogue, son, saviour, sabbath, romans, priest, philistines, mat, man, jewes, jerusalem, hebrew, gospel, feast, earth

And now word clouds really begin to shine:

Topic Modeling

Topic modeling is another popular approach to connoting the aboutness of a corpus. If the study carrel could be summed up in a single word, then that word might be unto, and Erubhin or Miscellanies Christian and Iudaicall, and others Penned for recreation at vacant houres. By Iohn Lightfoote, Master in Arts, sometimes of Christs Colledge in Cambridge. is most about that word.

If the study carrel could be summed up in three words ("topics") then those words and their significantly associated titles include:

If the study carrel could be summed up in five topics, and each topic were each denoted with three words, then those topics and their most significantly associated files would be:

Moreover, the totality of the study carrel's aboutness, can be visualized with the following pie chart:

Noun & Verbs

Through an analysis of your study carrel's parts-of-speech, you are able to answer question beyonds aboutness. For example, a list of the most frequent nouns helps you answer what questions; "What is discussed in this collection?":

time, men, things, people, place, man, king, day, death, world, way, words, part, others, end, kings, manner, thing, p., name, life, reason, hands, nothing, ad, themselues, enemies, children, sonne, quod, hand, countrey, cause, rest, word, souldiers, nature, respect, sin, one, blood, number, yeare, year, house, himselfe, places, land, years, father

An enumeration of the verbs helps you learn what actions take place in a text or what the things in the text do. Very frequently, the most common lemmatized verbs are "be", "have", and "do"; the more interesting verbs usually occur further down the list of frequencies:

is, was, be, were, had, are, have, being, made, did, called, do, make, said, came, come, been, sent, according, take, say, see, done, brought, put, vnto, taken, set, let, concerning, went, found, seeing, give, haue, know, given, offered, left, intended, having, hauing, hath, written, thought, die, cast, commanded, declared, bring

Proper Nouns

An extraction of proper nouns helps you determine the names of people and places in your study carrel.

〉, ◊, 〈, god, christ, c., jews, lord, king, law, iewes, de, et, covenant, thou, chap, temple, church, moses, ●, ierusalem, romans, hath, israel, citie, l., haue, h., gospel, holy, gods, christs, priest, iews, city, apostle, rome, christians, grace, abraham, prophet, herode, owne, heaven, israelites, faith, ioseph, caesar, new, e.

An analysis of personal pronouns enables you to answer at least two questions: 1) "What, if any, is the overall gender of my study carrel?", and 2) "To what degree are the texts in my study carrel self-centered versus inclusive?"

his, he, it, they, their, them, him, i, we, our, you, her, us, my, me, himself, your, themselves, she, its, thy, thee, one, theirs, vp, itself, ours, ''em, mine, ye, vnto, elias, whereof, u, yours, s, hers, ●, hee, whosoever, thēselues, vvith, iu, ionathans, ian, g, f, em, e, thou

Below are words cloud of your study carrel's proper & personal pronouns.

Adjectives & Verbs

Learning about a corpus's adjectives and adverbs helps you answer how questions: "How are things described and how are things done?" An analysis of adjectives and adverbs also points to a corpus's overall sentiment. "In general, is my study carrel positive or negative?"

other, great, such, many, same, first, good, own, whole, more, much, high, true, most, little, old, new, last, second, present, least, former, dead, common, certain, full, holy, like, long, better, greater, next, necessary, particular, general, able, large, third, few, young, greatest, best, due, small, wicked, himselfe, saith, jewish, very, strong

not, so, then, also, now, more, therefore, thereof, out, thus, up, most, only, here, yet, as, onely, there, very, first, much, away, well, therein, together, rather, likewise, never, in, afterwards, before, forth, ever, again, that, once, long, is, even, off, hence, down, no, indeed, far, all, especially, presently, thereby, namely

Next steps

There is much more to a study carrel than the things outlined above. Use this page's menubar to navigate and explore in more detail. There you will find additional features & functions including: ngrams, parts-of-speech, grammars, named entities, topic modeling, a simple search interface, etc.

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