Abstract The aim of this study is to demonstrate the applicability of selected methods of the so-called distant reading from the area of digital humanities for the interpretation of early Christian texts, specifically for approaching similarities and differences between the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of John. We use the term “distant reading” for the methods that allow us to explore, analyze, and visualize digitized textual data while using the tools from the area of data mining, natural language processing, or corpus linguistics. We want to explore whether methods from the field of digital humanities can allow for a sophisticated, quantifiable, and replicable comparison of the corpora of early Christian movements and thereby help to uncover the basic features of their theology and thus be a suitable complement to traditional exegesis and interpretation achieved by close reading.

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远距离阅读托马斯福音和约翰福音：对圣经文本研究中使用数字技术的方法论方面的反思

摘要这项研究的目的是证明从数字人文领域进行的所谓远距离阅读的某些方法的适用性，以解释早期基督教文本，特别是探讨托马斯福音与萨摩亚福音书之间的异同。约翰。我们使用“远程阅读”一词来表示那些使我们能够使用数据挖掘，自然语言处理或语料库语言学领域的工具来探索，分析和可视化数字化文本数据的方法。我们想探讨数字人文科学领域的方法是否可以实现复杂，可量化，