No abstract

Witztum, Rips and Rosenberg [4] have shown that when the Book of Genesis is written as two-dimensional arrays with the topology of a cylinder, equidistant letter sequences spelling words with related meaning appear non randomly in close proximity. Here we adopt the quantitative tools developed in [4] to measure another type of pattern found in the same Book. In the new patterns, equidistant letter sequences spelling out expressions appear in close proximity, on two-dimensional arrays, with conceptually related expressions appearing in the string of letters of the text. We measure the significance of this new type of pattern, using two samples of name-date word pairs, thus similar to the experiment done in [4]. The p-levels obtained were 0.00051 and 0.000046 respectively.