{"id":24538,"date":"2016-04-11T14:16:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T21:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/artificial-intelligence-sheds-new-light-on-the-origins-of-the-bible"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:20:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:20:40","slug":"artificial-intelligence-sheds-new-light-on-the-origins-of-the-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/artificial-intelligence-sheds-new-light-on-the-origins-of-the-bible","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Intelligence Sheds New Light on the Origins of the Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Twenty six hundred years ago, a band of Judahite soldiers kept watch on their kingdom\u2019s southern border in the final days before Jerusalem was sacked by Nebuchadnezzar. They left behind numerous inscriptions\u2014and now, a groundbreaking digital analysis has revealed how many writers penned them. The research and innovative technology behind it stand to teach us about the origins of the Bible itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s well understood that the Bible was not composed in real time but was probably written and edited later,\u201d Arie Shaus, a mathematician at Tel Aviv University told Gizmodo. \u201cThe question is, when exactly?\u201d<\/p>\n

Shaus is one of several mathematicians and archaeologists trying to broach that question in a radical manner: by using machine learning tools to determine how many people were literate in ancient times. Their first major analysis<\/a>, which appears today in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences<\/em>, suggests that the ability to read and write was widespread throughout the Kingdom of Judah, setting the stage for the compilation of Biblical texts.<\/p>\n

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Twenty six hundred years ago, a band of Judahite soldiers kept watch on their kingdom\u2019s southern border in the final days before Jerusalem was sacked by Nebuchadnezzar. They left behind numerous inscriptions\u2014and now, a groundbreaking digital analysis has revealed how many writers penned them. The research and innovative technology behind it stand to teach us [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50833,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24538\/revisions\/50833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}