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APS Virtual Poster Showcase · 2020

"Because God Is Good": A Linguistic Analysis of Moral Content within the King James Version of the Bible

Virtual · June 2020

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  • Sara Haman
    Florida Atlantic University
  • Kevin Lanning
    Florida Atlantic University

Abstract

The will of God was historically considered a sine qua non for Western moral imperatives. In this project, we use natural-language and network-modeling analyses to examine the moral content of the Bible empirically in order to discern how modern moral concerns map onto a biblical framework.

Religion