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Details For Acronyms And Word/Letter Counts In The Tanakh: Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, And 1-2 Chronicles, Keith L. Yoder Dec 2018

Details For Acronyms And Word/Letter Counts In The Tanakh: Daniel, Ezra-Nehemiah, And 1-2 Chronicles, Keith L. Yoder

Keith L. Yoder

This Excel table provides a convenient tool for searching for acronyms (horizontal acrostics) in the Tanakh. It  contains a verse-by-verse compilation of orthographic word counts, consonantal letter counts, first letters of each Hebrew word in traditional right-to-left sequence, and last letters of each Hebrew word in left-to-right sequence. Each verse-record is tagged by book name and chapter/verse reference, and each column-field may be searched and manipulated with Excel Auto-Filter. The characters in the Hebrew letter fields are separated by spaces, and searches may be done using Hebrew Unicode consonants. For example, a search for a Tetragrammaton acronym may be done …


20,000 Sequences Of Psalm 119 Randomly Shuffled Primary Torah Gender Terms, Keith L. Yoder Dec 2017

20,000 Sequences Of Psalm 119 Randomly Shuffled Primary Torah Gender Terms, Keith L. Yoder

Keith L. Yoder

This is the third of three Excel tables which have been prepared to support my experiment at the end of the essay by Samuel Zinner, "Psalm 119’s Eight Key Torah Terms’ Hidden Gender-Based Distribution Patterns". As explained below, this file contains a VBA module with the code used to generate the random trials used in this experiment. Many computers may throw up a security alert to prevent downloading and/or opening of this file, so the VBA code in that module is also posted on this page at https://works.bepress.com/klyoder/41/.

The first file contains the first table described in the summary of …


100,000 Sequences Of Psalm 119 Randomly Shuffled Primary Torah Gender Terms (179), Keith L. Yoder Dec 2017

100,000 Sequences Of Psalm 119 Randomly Shuffled Primary Torah Gender Terms (179), Keith L. Yoder

Keith L. Yoder

Update of 8 Oct 2019:

The uploaded file is a revised Excel table of 100,000 random sample runs distributing 89 "masculine" and 90 "feminine" Torah terms into the 22 strophes of Psalm 119, as part of my experiment at the end of the essay by Samuel Zinner, "Psalm 119’s Eight Key Torah Terms’ Hidden Gender-Based Distribution Patterns".. The rest of the text below will be revised later.

Keith Yoder

The first file contains the first table described in the summary of that experiment, a table of 1,000 randomly generated sequences of 179 gender terms, 90 (f)eminine and 89 (m)asculine, over …


100,000 Sequences Of Psalm 119 Randomly Shuffled Primary Torah Gender Terms (180), Keith L. Yoder Dec 2017

100,000 Sequences Of Psalm 119 Randomly Shuffled Primary Torah Gender Terms (180), Keith L. Yoder

Keith L. Yoder

Update of 8 Oct 2019:

The uploaded file is the second revised Excel table of 100,000 random sample runs distributing 90 "masculine" and 90 "feminine" Torah terms into the 22 strophes of Psalm 119, as part of my experiment at the end of the essay by Samuel Zinner, "Psalm 119’s Eight Key Torah Terms’ Hidden Gender-Based Distribution Patterns".. The rest of the text below will be revised later.

Keith Yoder

This is the second of three Excel tables which have been prepared to support my experiment at the end of the essay by Samuel Zinner, "Psalm 119’s Eight Key Torah …