Precisely who wrote the Bible has been debated for centuries – but now scientists have devised a computer program that sheds much more light on the sources of the various religious texts within it.
Israeli computer scientists and Bible scholars have written an algorithm that analyses the writing styles found within various sections.
While it can’t pinpoint an individual author, the program has been able to determine when a passage has been written by more than one person and can detect the point at which a new author has taken over.
The Bible comes in two sections – the Old Testament and the New Testament....