Katrina Koehler | Searcharxiv

arXiv2025

Analysis of Inter-Testamental References Reveal Five Groups of Books in the Christian Bible

The Bible is packed with references from start to finish. This study aims to analyze a specific branch of these references: citations. While there are several types of references, both explicit and implicit, this study focuses on the types of references that can be detected with a simple algorithmic string comparison, or an n-gram string comparison. Words were compared by their Strong's Concordance numbers so they could be compared without conjugation or declension. We searched through the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint) and Greek New Testament manuscripts for direct quotations from the former in the latter. Our analysis of these references leads us to believe Old Testament books cluster into three groups of common use, and that New Testament books cluster into two books of common use. We analyze these clusters to show explicitly how they differ, and discover that New Testament books reference vastly different portions of the Old Testament.

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arXiv2022

Measuring the electron neutrino mass using the electron capture decay of 163Ho

While the mass differences between neutrino mass states are known, their absolute masses and mass hierarchy have not yet been determined. Determining the mass of neutrinos provides access to physics beyond the Standard Model and the resulting value has implications for the growth of large-scale structure in the universe over cosmic history. Because of the importance of the topic, a number of efforts are already underway to determine the mass of neutrinos including direct kinematic measurements and indirect measurements of astrophysical phenomena that constrain the sum of the mass eigenstates through models of cosmic evolution. Here, we advocate for a collaborative international effort to perform a kinematic determination of the effective electron neutrino mass using calorimetric measurements of the decay of 163Ho. This effort is justified by the success of current experiments using the technique, its high benefit-to-cost ratio, the value of approaches with different systematic errors, and the value of measuring the electron neutrino mass rather than the electron anti-neutrino mass.

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