ECCE_DIK - article supplementary

Purpose

This repository serves as a supplementary material for the article "Righteousness in Early Christian Literature: Distant Reading and Textual Networks", published in Annali di storia dell’esegesi.

It contains scripts, data and figures. The scripts are in Python 3 programming language and mainly have a form of Jupyter notebooks. All our analyses aim at being fully reproducible and we invite other scholars to reuse our code and data for their analyses. If you reuse the code, please, use the citation below and refer to the article.

Citation

Kaše, V., Nikki, N., and Glomb, T. (2021). ECCE_DIK: (Version v1.2). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4972801

Authors

Vojtěch Kaše
Nina Nikki
Tomáš Glomb

License

CC-BY-SA 4.0, see attached License.md

How to use this repository

download or clone the repository
in terminal, move to the root of the repository and create virtual environment by running bash create_ecce_venv.sh
in the jupyter notebooks, always check that you are connected to the ecce_venv kernel
(alternatively, if you do not wish to use the virtual environment, make sure that you have installed all required python packages within the requirements.txt file: pip install -r requiremnts.txt)

Scripts

The scripts are in the scripts subfolder and their numbers and titles should be self-explanatory:

1_DATA_OVERVIEW.ipynb offers general overview of the dataset, especially in respect to term frequencies over time.
2_COMPARING-AUTHORS.ipynb analyzes the corpus on a level of individual authors, which are compared by means of several different methods anchored in vector semantics and formal network analysis.
textnet.py contains functions which are used to create, analyze and visualize textual networks.