The Social Network of the Holy Land
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Methodology
2.1. Social Network Analysis and the Study of Literature
2.2. Social Space
2.3. Agency of Space
3. Results
3.1. Land Access
3.2. Personified Land
3.3. Structural Role
4. Discussion
4.1. The Role of the Land
4.2. The Potential of Social Network Analysis for Literary Analysis
5. Materials and Methods
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
CI | confidence interval |
MDS | multidimensional scaling |
SNA | social network analysis |
1 | For general introductions to SNA, see Marin and Wellman (2014); Scott (2017); Scott and Carrington (2014); Tang (2017). |
2 | The distinction between Israelites (plural addressees), 2MSg (singular addressees), and an Israelite (singular but not addressed, typically used in case laws) was inherited from the original network in Højgaard (2024, esp. 110–14), where it served to differentiate semantic and rhetorical notions pertaining to the Israelites. |
3 | In two-mode networks, relationships exist between two types of nodes, and edges are only established between nodes belonging to different types. |
4 | Degree refers to the number of edges tied to a node. In the graph, the degree is normalized by the maximum number of ties possible. Betweenness is a measure of how often a node occurs on the shortest path between two other nodes. High betweenness scores are usually associated with control because transactions will often pass through nodes with high betweenness (Brass 1984). PageRank ranks nodes based on the number of ties from other nodes and the centrality of those nodes (Page et al. 1998). |
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Semantic Role | Agency Score |
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Agent | 5 |
Force | 4 |
Affected Agent | 3 |
Instrument | 2 |
Frustrative | 1 |
Neutral | 0 |
Volitional Undergoer | −1 |
Patient | −2 |
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