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This research investigates the effectiveness of various digital approaches in examining textual clusters within the Gospel of Mark.

Comparative computational textual criticism of the Gospel of Mark and the paradigm of textual clusters

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Comparative approaches demonstrate the relevance of textual clusters in the Gospel of Mark, indicating ongoing debates in the field.

This research investigates the effectiveness of various digital approaches in examining textual clusters within the Gospel of Mark.
Applied five digital approaches to the Editio Critica Maior collation of the Gospel of Mark.
Used clustering techniques including classical multidimensional scaling (CMDS), partitioning around medoids (PAM), and non-negative matrix factorization (NMF).
Implemented network analysis and reticulating cladistics to reconstruct models of the textual tradition.
All five approaches consistently replicated traditional textual clusters.
Identified the controversial 'Caesarean' group and the debated 'Western' group.
Misclassifications of individual witnesses varied due to contamination and coincidental agreement.

Hyytiäinen et al. (2026) studied this question.

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