Second Call for Reviewers: Pattern Analysis Methodology and Software

Pattern Analysis is a consistent methodology to analyze literary structures and rhetoric of pericopes throughout the Bible. It is an innovative approach that utilizes a variety of literary devices, not just chiasms, with modifications to Walsh’s Style and Structure in Biblical Hebrew Narrative methodology. It includes a demarcation model (placement of markers), a structural model (organization of parallel elements), and a rhetorical model (recognition of persuasive and emphatic messages). Key to this methodology is the identification of a theme for each pericope's element.

The structural and rhetorical devices comprising these models are statistically consistent across every genre. These findings are based on roughly 20,000 of the 30,000 verses in the Bible. Every verse of those 20,000 verses fits this approach. At least 25% of every book has been sampled; the New Testament and Minor Prophets have been completed. 

Prototype software has been developed to analyze source-language structures, document one's understanding of the rhetoric, and view their analyses on dynamic web pages. Internet access is not required. Developers could incorporate this software into an organization's translation software or into commercial Bible software. In that way, as the target language is written, themes for each element in the source language would be matched to a corresponding theme. This would preserve the prevailing theme of an element (roughly equivalent to a verse). 

The manuscript, Pattern Analysis Methodology, is available for review at  https://emphasisinbible.com/paf/.

About: Tom Clarke is an independent scholar. Professionally, he had been a designer and developer of computer software for most of his career. That background offers a valuable perspective in this analysis of patterns. The existing software resides on his laptop and is unavailable for use on another machine.