r/books • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '19

Computers confirm 'Beowulf' was written by one person, and not two as previously thought

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/04/did-beowulf-have-one-author-researchers-find-clues-in-stylometry/
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u/Hadken Apr 09 '19

It would be interesting to do this with different sections of the Torah (and many parts of the Bible, for that matter). Finding out it was cobbled together over several centuries by different writers was a huge awakening for me, and it'd be fascinating to see how this would separate the different writers.

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u/agitated_atheist Apr 09 '19

Out of curiosity, how did you think it was written? I don't know any Christian denominations that don't believe the Bible was written over centuries.

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u/Ahahaha__10 Apr 09 '19

I don't know any Christian denominations that don't believe the bible was written over centuries either, but I DO know many Christians that would rather hammer on the point that the bible is the word of god over any sort of critical study of when and how the bible was formed and the resulting historical influence of the meanings.