Pattern analysis is the study of the thought process that the Holy Spirit used when He inspired the Bible. It attempts to answer the question, Can a model be created which provides consistent evidence that all Scripture was inspired by God using thematic organizations of the biblical text?
Through literary devices such as the chiasm, parallel symmetry, concluding summary, and substructures, I am seeing a very complex, unique and consistent method for presenting themes. There are forty literary devices in all. Each of the so-called ‘authors’ of the Bible, Moses, Malachi and Mark to name a few, demonstrate the use of these same literary devices. Strong evidence of one inspiring author.
Of the 31,100 verses in the Bible, I have today analyzed 17,100 which is 55%. It has taken nearly four years:
So far in my analysis of the NASB translation of the Bible, two verses appear to be randomly placed — these are not included in most Bible translations because they do not appear in the earliest copies of the Bible. Besides those two verses, all other verses participate in this well-organized thought process.
As mentioned in my last blog posting a year ago, my wife passed away in December 2018. Last year will likely go down as the most difficult year of my life. In the midst of my grief, I sold my house and relocated to a home near my daughter outside Harrisburg, PA. Loneliness was such a heavy burden upon me. That was 2019 and now we have a new year. I took off my wedding ring on January 1 as a statement that 2019 is gone. Praise the Lord! Back again to pattern analysis.
My short-term goal is to complete the gospels. I have completed a first draft of Matthew, Mark and John, as well as the first fourteen chapters of Luke. From there, I intend to update the two manuscripts, Pattern Analysis Handbook which presents the methodology and then the Pattern Analysis Findings which attempts to show how the methodology is applied in various situations.
Questions? Tom@ThomasBClarke.com
Through literary devices such as the chiasm, parallel symmetry, concluding summary, and substructures, I am seeing a very complex, unique and consistent method for presenting themes. There are forty literary devices in all. Each of the so-called ‘authors’ of the Bible, Moses, Malachi and Mark to name a few, demonstrate the use of these same literary devices. Strong evidence of one inspiring author.
Of the 31,100 verses in the Bible, I have today analyzed 17,100 which is 55%. It has taken nearly four years:
0% — April 6, 2016At least 25% of every book has been sampled and thirty-four have been completed. Overall that is 45% of the Old Testament and 82% of the New Testament. During the last year, I found it necessary to tweak the methodology in small ways which resulted in the modification of some of the previously completed analyses.
26% — May 6, 2017
30% — August 31, 2017
35% — January 21, 2018
40% — April 20, 2018
45% — October 24, 2018
50% — March 14, 2019
55% — March 29, 2020
So far in my analysis of the NASB translation of the Bible, two verses appear to be randomly placed — these are not included in most Bible translations because they do not appear in the earliest copies of the Bible. Besides those two verses, all other verses participate in this well-organized thought process.
As mentioned in my last blog posting a year ago, my wife passed away in December 2018. Last year will likely go down as the most difficult year of my life. In the midst of my grief, I sold my house and relocated to a home near my daughter outside Harrisburg, PA. Loneliness was such a heavy burden upon me. That was 2019 and now we have a new year. I took off my wedding ring on January 1 as a statement that 2019 is gone. Praise the Lord! Back again to pattern analysis.
My short-term goal is to complete the gospels. I have completed a first draft of Matthew, Mark and John, as well as the first fourteen chapters of Luke. From there, I intend to update the two manuscripts, Pattern Analysis Handbook which presents the methodology and then the Pattern Analysis Findings which attempts to show how the methodology is applied in various situations.
Questions? Tom@ThomasBClarke.com
