31: Who Wrote the Bible?




Talk the Talk show

Summary: Scholars have long supposed that certain books of the Bible were written by a number of different authors. Now a team of language researchers is using computers to determine Bible authorship, and they're coming up with some surprising findings. Can text give an author's identity away? How can computers determine who wrote what? UWA linguist Daniel Midgley tells the story on this week's Talk the Talk.