God's Babies
|Appendix
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1The database catalogues biblical references in sources by ten natalist writers: Pride, Provan, Heine, Owen, Campbell, Houghton, Mohler, Akin, Carlson, and Watters. This is a representative selection, with five of the large-but-limited type and five of the unlimited type (those who combine natalism with anti-contraceptive ideology). Each use (by reference or quotation) of a biblical text is a separate entry in the database. The main table had the following fields:
source_id
source_page
usage
argument
book_of_bible
chapter
verse_range
standardized_verse
2The field “usage” records whether a scripture is quoted in full, in part, paraphrased, only cited, or just appears in a list of scripture references. The field “argument” indicates which type of argument the author supports with the scripture. The fifty codes here map to the smaller set of natalist arguments described in chapter 2. Many biblical references could not be tied to a particular argument and were left unassigned. Citations of non-contiguous verses such as “11, 14” were treated as a single reference. After compiling the database, I noticed counts of popularity were confused by overlapping verse ranges, for example 3-4 and 3-5 (for Psalm 127). I created the field “standardized_verse” to enable production of the verse popularity table below. The few cases where no verse but only the chapter was referenced were also assigned to a standardized verse-range.
3Many projects in popular reception of the Bible record allusions, as they lack citations. In this project there was rarely a need to resort to recording allusions as natalists refer to Bible texts explicitly and profusely, except for Mohler who is often allusive. There was originally a field called “weight” in which I tried to quantify how much was done with a Bible citation by a natalist writer, ranging from a one sentence comment up to several pages. I found it often difficult to identify where discussion of one scripture ended and another began, so I abandoned this. If the data could reflect this weighting, my impression is that the preponderance of the two key texts (Genesis 1:28 and Psalm 127) would be stronger than it already is.
4The tables below show how many references were made to each Old Testament book, and how many times each verse-range was cited, across the natalist sources that were catalogued. The counts were generated from the database.
Frequency of citation in natalist sources
Count |
Book |
84 |
Genesis |
12 |
Exodus |
7 |
Leviticus |
1 |
Numbers |
35 |
Deuteronomy |
1 |
Joshua |
1 |
Judges |
2 |
Ruth |
3 |
1 Samuel |
1 |
2 Samuel |
1 |
1 Kings |
1 |
2 Kings |
6 |
1 Chronicles |
1 |
2 Chronicles |
2 |
Ezra |
1 |
Nehemiah |
5 |
Job |
48 |
Psalms |
11 |
Proverbs |
2 |
Ecclesiastes |
17 |
Isaiah |
12 |
Jeremiah |
1 |
Lamentations |
3 |
Ezekiel |
4 |
Hosea |
2 |
Joel |
4 |
Malachi |
Count of Old Testament standardized verse-ranges cited
Count |
Book |
Ch. |
Verse |
1 |
Genesis |
1 |
27 |
23 |
Genesis |
1 |
28 |
1 |
Genesis |
2 |
18 |
1 |
Genesis |
2 |
23 |
1 |
Genesis |
3 |
20 |
10 |
Genesis |
9 |
1,7 |
1 |
Genesis |
9 |
19 |
2 |
Genesis |
13 |
16 |
2 |
Genesis |
15 |
5 |
2 |
Genesis |
16 |
10 |
1 |
Genesis |
16 |
2 |
3 |
Genesis |
17 |
1-6 |
1 |
Genesis |
17 |
15-16 |
1 |
Genesis |
17 |
20 |
1 |
Genesis |
20 |
18 |
1 |
Genesis |
22 |
16-17 |
1 |
Genesis |
23 |
3,14 |
3 |
Genesis |
24 |
60 |
1 |
Genesis |
25 |
21,24 |
1 |
Genesis |
26 |
24 |
2 |
Genesis |
26 |
3-4 |
2 |
Genesis |
28 |
13-14 |
2 |
Genesis |
28 |
3 |
1 |
Genesis |
29 |
31-34 |
2 |
Genesis |
30 |
1-2 |
1 |
Genesis |
30 |
22 |
1 |
Genesis |
30 |
3 |
1 |
Genesis |
30 |
43 |
2 |
Genesis |
32 |
12 |
6 |
Genesis |
35 |
11-12 |
2 |
Genesis |
38 |
9-10 |
1 |
Genesis |
47 |
27 |
1 |
Genesis |
48 |
4 |
2 |
Genesis |
49 |
22,25 |
1 |
Exodus |
1 |
12 |
1 |
Exodus |
1 |
20 |
2 |
Exodus |
1 |
7 |
1 |
Exodus |
1 |
9 |
1 |
Exodus |
12 |
37 |
1 |
Exodus |
20 |
12 |
3 |
Exodus |
23 |
26 |
1 |
Exodus |
23 |
30 |
1 |
Exodus |
32 |
13 |
1 |
Leviticus |
15 |
19,28 |
1 |
Leviticus |
20 |
13 |
1 |
Leviticus |
21 |
17-20 |
1 |
Leviticus |
22 |
24 |
1 |
Leviticus |
26 |
22 |
2 |
Leviticus |
26 |
3,9 |
1 |
Numbers |
23 |
10 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
1 |
10-11 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
4 |
27 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
4 |
9-10 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
5 |
16 |
2 |
Deuteronomy |
6 |
3 |
4 |
Deuteronomy |
7 |
13-14 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
7 |
3-4 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
8 |
1 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
10 |
22 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
13 |
17 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
23 |
1 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
25 |
11-12 |
2 |
Deuteronomy |
25 |
6 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
26 |
5 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
28 |
1 |
2 |
Deuteronomy |
28 |
18 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
28 |
3 |
7 |
Deuteronomy |
28 |
4,11 |
2 |
Deuteronomy |
28 |
62 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
30 |
16 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
30 |
19-20 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
30 |
9 |
1 |
Deuteronomy |
33 |
6 |
1 |
Joshua |
7 |
9 |
1 |
Judges |
11 |
37 |
2 |
Ruth |
4 |
11 |
1 |
1 Samuel |
1 |
10,20 |
1 |
1 Samuel |
1 |
8 |
1 |
1 Samuel |
2 |
21 |
1 |
2 Samuel |
12 |
23 |
1 |
1 Kings |
4 |
25-26 |
1 |
2 Kings |
19 |
29-31 |
1 |
1 Chronicles |
4 |
38 |
2 |
1 Chronicles |
25 |
5 |
2 |
1 Chronicles |
26 |
4-5 |
1 |
1 Chronicles |
27 |
23 |
1 |
2 Chronicles |
1 |
9 |
1 |
Ezra |
9 |
2 |
1 |
Ezra |
10 |
3 |
1 |
Nehemiah |
9 |
23 |
2 |
Job |
5 |
25 |
1 |
Job |
10 |
11 |
1 |
Job |
12 |
7-8 |
1 |
Job |
42 |
13 |
1 |
Psalms |
1 |
3 |
1 |
Psalms |
33 |
11 |
1 |
Psalms |
37 |
25 |
1 |
Psalms |
37 |
26 |
1 |
Psalms |
37 |
28 |
1 |
Psalms |
37 |
38 |
1 |
Psalms |
48 |
13 |
1 |
Psalms |
68 |
6 |
1 |
Psalms |
78 |
6 |
1 |
Psalms |
80 |
11 |
2 |
Psalms |
92 |
12-14 |
1 |
Psalms |
105 |
24 |
2 |
Psalms |
107 |
38,41 |
1 |
Psalms |
109 |
10-13 |
4 |
Psalms |
112 |
2 |
1 |
Psalms |
113 |
9 |
1 |
Psalms |
115 |
14 |
18 |
Psalms |
127 |
3-5 |
9 |
Psalms |
128 |
1-6 |
1 |
Psalms |
144 |
12 |
1 |
Proverbs |
2 |
17 |
1 |
Proverbs |
5 |
18 |
3 |
Proverbs |
14 |
28 |
2 |
Proverbs |
17 |
6 |
1 |
Proverbs |
20 |
7 |
2 |
Proverbs |
22 |
6 |
1 |
Proverbs |
30 |
16 |
1 |
Ecclesiastes |
3 |
1-2 |
1 |
Ecclesiastes |
12 |
1 |
1 |
Isaiah |
8 |
18 |
2 |
Isaiah |
9 |
7 |
1 |
Isaiah |
11 |
1 |
1 |
Isaiah |
26 |
15 |
2 |
Isaiah |
27 |
6 |
1 |
Isaiah |
29 |
23 |
1 |
Isaiah |
38 |
19 |
1 |
Isaiah |
48 |
18-19 |
1 |
Isaiah |
49 |
2 |
3 |
Isaiah |
54 |
1-6 |
1 |
Isaiah |
59 |
21 |
2 |
Isaiah |
66 |
22 |
1 |
Jeremiah |
1 |
5 |
1 |
Jeremiah |
10 |
20 |
1 |
Jeremiah |
17 |
7-8 |
1 |
Jeremiah |
23 |
3 |
4 |
Jeremiah |
29 |
4-6 |
2 |
Jeremiah |
30 |
19 |
1 |
Jeremiah |
32 |
39 |
1 |
Jeremiah |
33 |
22 |
1 |
Lamentations |
4 |
3 |
1 |
Ezekiel |
36 |
10-11 |
1 |
Ezekiel |
36 |
11 |
1 |
Ezekiel |
47 |
12 |
1 |
Hosea |
1 |
10 |
1 |
Hosea |
4 |
10 |
2 |
Hosea |
9 |
11-14,16 |
1 |
Joel |
1 |
3 |
1 |
Joel |
1 |
8 |
4 |
Malachi |
2 |
15 |
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