A new artificial intelligence study is shedding light on the authorship of some of the earliest books of the Bible. Researchers applied advanced linguistic analysis to the first nine books of the Hebrew Bible, known as the Enneateuch, and identified multiple distinct writing styles.
The international study, led by mathematician Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin of Duke University, used AI to detect three primary styles—linked to the Priestly source, the Deuteronomistic History, and the Book of Deuteronomy. The analysis suggests that more than one person or group may have contributed to writing these texts.
Parts of the account of Noah’s Ark did not align with any of the three styles, leading researchers to believe that another unidentified contributor may have authored those portions.
Professor Thomas Römer of the Collège de France stated, “We found that each group of authors has a different style, surprisingly, even regarding simple and common words such as ‘no,’ ‘which,’ or ‘king.’ Our method accurately identifies these differences.”
