RT Article
T1 Deciding What Counts: The Difficulties of Comparing Stylistic Diversity. A Response to Armin D. Baum
JF Journal for the study of Paul and his letters
VO 9
IS 1/2
SP 158
OP 166
A1 Percival, John
A2 Baum, Armin Daniel 1965-
LA English
PB Eisenbrauns
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1697697712
AB This response to Armin Baum argues that he has asked an important question about the stylistic variation in Paul and Cicero but that his analysis lacks adequate statistical rigor. Cicero's writing certainly reveals a range of styles, depending on genre, chronology, and communicative recipients. However, it is not straightforward to compare Cicero with Paul because of the narrower range of genre and shorter timespan for Paul, and also the differing methodologies for stylistic analysis in the existing literature. Baum's analysis of the Pauline material does not adequately handle statistical significance, dependent variables, the effects of lumping, or more-recent advances in multivariate analysis.
K1 Cicero's style
K1 New Testament style criticism
K1 Pauline style
K1 stylistic diversity
DO 10.5325/jstudpaullett.9.1-2.0158