Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Classification of Qumran Texts -- Background to this Book -- The Development of Aramaic -- Present State of Classification of Qumran Texts -- Qumran Texts and Scripture: A Basis for Classification? -- Can the Qumran Texts Be Considered as a Corpus? -- Present State of Classification of the Qumran Aramaic Corpus -- Chapter 2 Statistical Approaches Relevant to Qumran Aramaic Texts -- A Background to Statistical Methods -- Emanuel Tov and the Conventional Text-Critical Approach Andrew Morton: Quantitative Approaches to New Testament Texts and Implications for Qumran -- Frank Moore Cross and the Quantification of Variant Readings -- Qumran Texts Considered as a Corpus -- Yehuda Radday and Statistical Analysis of Selected Hebrew Bible Texts -- Summary -- Chapter 3 Textual Classification Criteria -- Stylistic Criteria -- Criteria for Comparison with Non-Qumran Texts -- Summary -- Chapter 4 Aramaic Textual Criteria -- Lexical Criteria -- Morphological Criteria -- Syntactic Criteria -- Summary -- Chapter 5 Materials Examined -- Accordance Computerized Texts BibleWorks Computerized Texts -- Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Computerized Texts -- Chapter 6 Statistical Methods -- Power Calculations - General Background -- Effect Sizes in the Hebrew Bible -- Implications for Combined Approaches -- An Exploratory Principal Components Analysis of the Hebrew Bible -- Cluster Analysis -- Multidimensional Scaling -- Latent Class Analysis -- Vocabulary Richness and Translated Texts -- Summary -- Chapter 7 An Initial Description and Classification -- Description of Aramaic Scrolls -- Hierarchical Cluster Classification Using Raw Rates of Textual Criteria |