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A modification of Honoré’s triple‐link model in the synoptic problem
Author(s) -
Abakuks Andris
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series a (statistics in society)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.103
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-985X
pISSN - 0964-1998
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-985x.2007.00469.x
Subject(s) - honor , link (geometry) , new testament , probabilistic logic , set (abstract data type) , computer science , arithmetic , mathematics , philosophy , statistics , theology , combinatorics , programming language , operating system
Summary. In New Testament studies, the synoptic problem is concerned with the relationships between the gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. In an earlier paper a careful specification in probabilistic terms was set up of Honoré’s triple‐link model. In the present paper, a modification of Honoré’s model is proposed. As previously, counts of the numbers of verbal agreements between the gospels are examined to investigate which of the possible triple‐link models appears to give the best fit to the data, but now using the modified version of the model and additional sets of data.