The Torah as a Structurally Constrained Morphological System: A Quantitative Study of Foundation-Letter Structure in Biblical Hebrew

Key Points

• To analyze the structural morphology of the Torah using computational methods to understand its foundation-letter system.
• Computational analysis of 76,584 tokens from the Torah
• Decomposition of words into structural layers: foundation root, mandatory root, and expansion layer
• Development of a predictive algorithm trained on 80% of the Torah data
• Analysis of morphological structure including control alphabet and nikud effects
• Cross-biblical comparison of morphological properties
• Morphological expansion governed by a control alphabet of 10 letters accounts for 99.87% of extension tokens
• Predictive algorithm achieves 90.1% accuracy and 95.6% with nikud
• Foundation-letter clustering is specific to the Torah, confirmed by shuffle test results
• Cross-biblical comparisons show a clear hierarchy of morphological properties among texts