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658 Steven W. Boyd1.00.90.80.70.60.50.40.30.20.10.01 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43 45 47 49 51 53 55 57 59 61Passage NumberPreteritesImperfectsPerfectsWaw-PerfectsRelative Frequency
Evidence for an Historical Reading of Genesis 1:1–2:3 659Figure 4 (left). 3-D bar graph of finite verb distribution in narrative. TheBiblical passages that are represented by the numbers on the x-axis are foundin Tables B1–B4 in Appendix B.tested are numbered along the x-axes and the relative frequencies ofeach finite verb are plotted on the z-axes. As can be seen in Figure 4,the dominant color for narrative texts is green, which corresponds to adominance of preterites; whereas the prominent colors for poetic texts(Figure 5) are red and yellow, which corresponds to a dominance ofimperfects and perfects.These graphs show that the finite verb distribution of narrative textsdrastically differs from that of poetic texts. But this difference mustbe quantified. Scatter plots helped do this. Not only do they provide anadditional way of visualizing the data, but they validated the track wefollowed in our analysis.In both scatter plots (Figures 6 and 7) the relative frequency ofpreterites for each passage is plotted on the x-axis, but the variablesplotted on the y-axes differ. In Figure 6 the y-coordinate is the relativefrequency of imperfects for each passage; whereas in Figure 7 they-coordinate is the relative frequency of perfects. For both plots, poeticpassages are indicated by red squares and narratives by green diamonds.Also the paired-texts data, which is presented as a 3-D bar graph inFigure 2, is plotted in Figures 6 and 7.These plots show that finite verb distribution clusters texts by genre.In addition, the paired-texts data are correctly grouped.Each scatter plot (Figures 6 and 7) also shows that the separationof the sample clusters is greatest along the x-axis, which is the ratioof preterites to finite verbs for each Biblical passage. This confirmedthe impression garnered during the exploratory phase, that this ratiowas the most significant for our study, and prompted the question: isthe median of the distribution of relative frequency of preterites fornarrative the same as that for poetry?In an effort to answer this question and to provide a graphic displayof the results, the narrative texts and poetic texts from the samples wereplotted side by side (Figure 8) with the passages on the x-axis and therelative frequency of preterites for each passage on the y-axis.
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