Monday, December 29, 2025

Oh c'mon, AI "model" finds four sources in the Pentateuch and beyond, reminiscent of Wellhausen's Documentary Hypothesis of JEDP from the 1870s

 ... The artificial intelligence model identified three distinct writing styles within the text: The Priestly source, the Deuteronomistic History, and the Book of Deuteronomy itself.

Whilst certain chapters aligned neatly with one of these categories, the researchers were taken aback to discover that portions of the Ark Narrative in 1 Samuel didn't correspond to any of the three styles, hinting at yet another mystery surrounding the Bible's composition. ...

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Gee, what a cohencidence! 

If you ask AI to find what people already think is there and model it, it very well might.

And sometimes it will find what is not there, like the Holy Family's flight into Egypt in the Gospel of Luke, even when you didn't ask about it lol.