Distant Reader - subject-sabbath-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.

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Size

There are 21 item(s) in this carrel, and this carrel is 1,063,099 words long. Each item in your study carrel is, on average, 50,623 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 91. 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:

day, sabbath, god, law, first, rest, seventh, time, christ, one, lords, may, therefore, church, holy, yet, will, also, us, lord, man, now, dayes, things, made, gods, shall, men, must, worship, new, observation, might, doth, nature, reason, say, creation, onely, much, morall, every, given, people, week, part, make, saith, place, without

Using the three most frequent words, the three files containing all of those words the most are A treatise of the Sabbath and the Lords-day Distinguished into foure parts. Wherein is declared both the nature, originall, and observation, as well of the one under the Old, as of the other under the New Testament. Written in French by David Primerose Batchelour in Divinitie in the Vniversity of Oxford, and minister of the Gospell in the Protestant Church of Roven. Englished out of his French manuscript by his father G.P. D.D., Of the morality of the fourth commandement as still in force to binde Christians delivered by way of answer to the translator of Doctor Prideaux his lecture, concerning the doctrine of the Sabbath ... / written by William Twisse ..., and The Jewish Sabbath abrogated, or, The Saturday Sabbatarians confuted in two parts : first, proving the abrogation of the old seventh-day Sabbath : secondly, that the Lord''s-Day is of divine appointment : containing several sermons newly preach''d upon a special occasion, wherein are many new arguments not found in former authors / by Benjamin Keach..

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

seventh day, lords day, first day, sabbath day, one day, new testament, fourth commandement, old testament, roman non, day sabbath, christs resurrection, weekly sabbath, gods service, fourth commandment, holy ghost, jewish sabbath, christian sabbath, iesus christ, set apart, every day, holy day, six dayes, morall law, holy rest, god rested, last day, jesus christ, iewish sabbath, particular day, another day, let us, new creation, christian church, every one, holy sabbath, gods rest, tells us, seven dayes, divine institution, mount sinai, whole day, english books, early english, must needs, solemn worship, lords supper, day wherein, lord christ, moral law, god blessed

And the three file that use all of the three most frequent phrases are The Lords-day, or, A succinct narration compiled out of the testimonies of H. Scripture and the reverend ancient fathers and divided into two books : in the former whereof is declared, that the observation of the Lords Day was from the Apostles ... : in the later is shewn in what things its sanctification doth consist ... / lately translated out of the Latine. A discourse of the Sabbath and the Lords Day Wherein the difference both in their institution and their due observation is briefly handled. By Christopher Dow, B.D., and Exercitations concerning the name, original, nature, use, and continuance of a day of sacred rest wherein the original of the Sabbath from the foundation of the world, the morality of the Fourth commandment with the change of the Seventh day are enquired into : together with an assertion of the divine institution of the Lord''s Day, and practical directions for its due observation / by John Owen..

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:

sabbath, law, god, church, lords, lord, day, scripture, jews, creation, christ, seventh, gospel, christians, apostles, testament, sunday, spirit, resurrection, rest, gods, covenant, commandement, christian, world, week, saviour, moses, jewish, iewes, gospell, ghost, decalogue, commandment, churches, works, time, text, scriptures, saturday, precept, morning, israelites, institution, iewish, holy, exod, evening, divine, disciples

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 day, and A treatise of the Sabbath and the Lords-day Distinguished into foure parts. Wherein is declared both the nature, originall, and observation, as well of the one under the Old, as of the other under the New Testament. Written in French by David Primerose Batchelour in Divinitie in the Vniversity of Oxford, and minister of the Gospell in the Protestant Church of Roven. Englished out of his French manuscript by his father G.P. D.D. 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?":

day, time, rest, things, man, men, law, dayes, reason, part, observation, people, thing, place, nature, words, end, week, others, worship, service, work, weeke, world, beginning, times, evening, word, works, respect, creation, hath, days, doth, light, way, manner, life, p., duties, nothing, scripture, name, morning, use, night, institution, workes, opinion, truth

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, be, was, are, have, were, had, did, being, made, do, say, said, given, make, been, observed, called, come, set, done, observe, according, know, see, give, kept, commanded, take, let, keep, taken, sanctified, think, came, concerning, rested, read, rest, hath, put, bee, bound, begin, appointed, ordained, required, find, written, seeing

Proper Nouns

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

sabbath, god, 〉, ◊, 〈, christ, law, lords, church, lord, day, gods, c., hath, moses, christians, covenant, holy, testament, gospel, jews, commandement, rest, christian, christs, iewes, spirit, creation, adam, de, doe, apostles, resurrection, new, l., sunday, dayes, seventh, paul, ●, divine, gen., wee, heaven, command, world, text, nature, exod, churches

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?"

it, they, his, he, them, i, their, we, our, him, us, you, themselves, my, its, himself, me, your, her, thy, she, thee, theirs, one, ours, ye, mine, whereof, hee, yours, vp, treateth, thou, there, severall, s, ourselves, itself, 〈, †, ה, yourself, yeeld, y, wr, vvhat, vnto, undoubtedlie, u, therevnto

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?"

first, other, seventh, such, same, holy, many, more, great, whole, fourth, good, new, true, morall, old, own, particular, second, much, last, jewish, necessary, non, common, -, saith, roman, moral, weekly, third, very, divine, present, little, least, next, former, christian, most, better, ordinary, religious, evident, publick, free, positive, greater, fit, sufficient

not, so, then, therefore, also, now, more, as, only, onely, yet, well, first, thus, here, most, even, up, out, thereof, together, ever, rather, much, very, never, before, there, that, indeed, hence, is, in, all, still, secondly, again, no, away, otherwise, apart, forth, therein, especially, namely, too, far, at, just, long

Next steps

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