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Statistical anomalies in the Book of Deuteronomy

שו"תStatistical anomalies in the Book of Deuteronomy
שאל לפני 4 שנים

Hello Rabbi,
I recently obtained a script from a writer that checks the frequency of occurrence of words in texts and ran it on the Torah books. I noticed that common linking words appear with an unusual frequency in Deuteronomy compared to the other books. Below are the frequencies in percentages, in order of the books:
You: 3.3 | 4 | 3.72 | 2.77 | 3.14
Confirm: 1.78 | 1.55 | 2.39 | 1.63 | 3.74
To: 1.71 | 1.92 | 1.69 | 1.83 | 1
Because: 1.41 | 1.13 | 1.12 | 0.78 | 1.94
All: 1.02 | 1.16 | 1.23 | 1.4 | 1.49
and: 1.04 | 1.35 | 1.54 | 0.79 | 0.69
About: 1.05 | 1.7 | 1.78 | 1.1 | 0.92
When I calculated the average distance of the frequencies between the books (for each linking word and then averaged over all words), this is the result obtained (in order of the books):
Genesis: 0 | 2.51 | 2.78 | 2.13 | 4.32
Names: 2.51 | 0 | 1.7 | 3.15 | 6.54
Leviticus: 2.78 | 1.7 | 0 | 3.79 | 5.42
In the desert: 2.13 | 3.15 | 3.79 | 0 | 4.84
Things: 4.32 | 6.54 | 5.42 | 4.84 | 0
It seems that all the books are furthest from a number of things in terms of the frequency of linking words, except for a number of things which is of course not furthest from itself but furthest from names.
I also learned that a test was conducted regarding the percentage of verses that begin with the letter V, and this is the result obtained according to the order of the books:
84.1 | 78 | 72.5 | 67.1 | 46.5
Here too we see that the Book of Deuteronomy is the most statistically unusual.
Do you think there is a real reason for this anomaly? Or is it coincidental? And if so, what do you think it means? Or what can be learned from it?
Best regards,
 
 
 
 


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I have no idea. But you need to understand two types of lessons:
  1. You know that the text was written by God, the Almighty, and the question is what He wants to tell us with this.
  2. This itself proves that the text was written by God or that the text says something.
There is a difference between these two. I usually treat claims of the second type with great skepticism (see the thread you posted about the appearance of literature in the number of the Israelites in the Torah). Statistics are a deceptive matter. Claims of the first type are more acceptable because if God composed it and did something special in the text, I understand people who are looking for what it means. But here too, one must be careful because the answers that offer an explanation for this can be many and varied. Different theories are attached to these phenomena. Therefore, it is difficult to draw clear conclusions from this.

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