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...Andrew Morton, who will publish his findings next month in a volume of New Testament studies, got his evidence from an electronic computer operated by the University of London. Until now, Morton argues, scholars could only question Paul's authorship on the basis of their personal, subjective analysis of the literary style of the Epistles, and "evidence" that convinced one scholar often left another unimpressed. Investigator Morton decided to use statistics instead of intuition...
...theory that every writer has certain subconscious, invariable writing habits. Morton had Dr. Michael Levison of Birkbeck College program the London computer to check the frequency and use of kai, a common Greek word meaning and, also, even, etc., in sentences drawn from nine classical writers-including Plato and Plutarch-found that each had a clear and distinct pattern in the way he handled his kais...
...test his hypothesis on the Epistles, Morton started with the assumption that Paul was indeed the author of Galatians (an attribution no scholar questions), fed every sentence in the Epistles to the computer for kai counting. Morton's conclusion: "There are four Epistles which were written by a man whose vocabulary had a constant proportion of kais in it, who used his kais in a consistent pattern and who, by definition, must be the Apostle Paul. The other ten Epistles exhibit diverse characteristics and must have come from at least three other hands...
Since Keating entered the Cuba controversy, his mail has reached mountainous proportions. An indication of Keating's new status occurred recently at a Republican dinner on Long Island. Keating was not there, but Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton was. "Morton was trying to warm up the audience," says a man who attended the dinner. "He tried to get a cheer out of them by praising Governor Rockefeller. They were dead. He tried again with Javits. Again they were dead. Then he started building up Keating, and the 1,000 people in that crowd just about brought the roof...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, associate professor of Government, will speak tonight at a Winthrop House Forum on "European Integration and American Foreign Policy." He will be joined on a panel by Jaroslav Vanek, assistant professor of Economics, and Morton Halperin, instructor in Government...