logos
The goal of logos is to give access to the Greek New Testament (27
books) and the Tanach (39 books) and allow users to do textual analysis
on the data. The New and Old Testament have been provided in their
original languages, Greek and Hebrew, respectively. Additionally, the
English Standard Version (ESV) Revised American Standard Bible
(RASB) is also provided for users who’d rather use a word–for–word
modern (1901) English translation.
Installation
You can install the development version of logos like so:
devtools::install_github("jpmonteagudo28/logos")or download the package from CRAN like so:
install.packages("logos")How to
The main function in this package is the select_passage() function as
it allows you to retrieve entire sections, books, chapters or verses of
the English Bible (RASB), Greek New Testament, and Hebrew Old Testament.
The remaining functions are helpers that facilitate retrieval and
manipulation of biblical text.
Besides select_passage(), you have access to five datasets. The
Revised Standard American Bible, ‘rasb_bible’, the Society of
Biblical Literature Greek New Testament,‘new_testament’, and the
Leningrad Codex containing the Old testament,‘old_testament’. Two
additional datasets are ‘author_data’ which contains a breakdown of the
authors, dates, sections and books of the Old and New Testament, and
‘verses_by_book’, which provides a count of the total number of verses
for each book of the bible.
library(logos)
# Let's grab a passage from the Gospel of John, chapter 1, verses 1 - 6
select_passage("Jhn",chapter = 1, verse = 1:6, language = "English", testament = "new)
# You can do so it a different language by changing the language argument
select_passage("Jhn",chapter = 1, verse = 1:6, language = "Greek", testament = "new)
# Notice that if you provide incompatible language and testament combinations for the Greek and Hebrew text, the function will throw an error and remind you to use the right combinations.
select_passage("Jhn",chapter = 1, verse = 1:6, language = "Hebrew", testament = "new)A secondary function is peek(), a base R replacement for dplyr’s
glimpse(). This function can be used to quickly get a sense of the
data you’ll be working with.
peek(old_testament)
peek(verses_by_book)Some real-life examples
Statistics have been applied to the field of biblical research for some years now, and the creation of the stylo and quanteda package have made it much easier to perform qualitative quantitative analysis on the biblical data.
I leave a few interesting articles that show the intermingling of stats and scripture.
Project status
Actively developed, though the pace has slowed now that I’m busier with other packages and my school work. I have no plans to substantially enlarge or extend it before really testing it.
Contributions
If you would like to contribute to this package, I’d love your help! Please read the guidelines for submitting a pull request.
Code of Conduct
Please note that the logos project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.