Salvation vocabulary

This article cited here says, "Salvation vocabulary in the Gospels differs greatly from salvation language in Paul." https://thebiblefornormalpeople.com/pauls-letters-inadequate-for-understanding-salvation/ I am looking to determine Pauline language of salvation. How could this be determined lexically and semantically using Logos?

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David Paul

Honestly, the best way would be to read everything written by Paul (you would have to determine for yourself whether you follow scholars in saying he didn't actually write some of the things attributed to him), and then after you have identified the passages you find relevant, look up the OL words and see where and how they are used throughout. Look at all of the other contexts where those words are used and determine if there is congruence...or not. One thing you might have trouble determining are cases where things aren't used, since you will be looking for things that are. For example, number of times the idea of "faith" is mentioned in the Hebrew scriptures: 0. Number of times "grace" is mentioned by Yeishuua`: 0. Good luck.

Christian Alexander

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1277753#Comment_1277753

How can I find what the scholars say on the topic? I have read all of Paul's corpus.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1277824#Comment_1277824

I believe this falls into (computerized) text analysis or computational linguistics where the frequency charts are designed to be viewed comparatively rather than individually as in Logos. What you need to do is:

determine the passages in the Gospel and in Paul that deal with salvation
use word frequencies in these passages collectively to identify the key terms that relate to salvation
take each of these terms and identify the frequency of use in the salvation passages of Paul and separately of the Gospel
if the frequency is similar, this is not a word of interest; if the frequency is dissimilar, you have identified a word that indicates a difference in vocabulary.

Rosie Perera

That's a really challenging ask, Christian! (See MJ's reply.)

Sometimes when you read something in an article, you just need to take their word for it and not go digging to understand where they got that info. The number of questions you ask here to help you delve further to understand things you've read would give me 500 hours a day of work to keep up with if I were trying to do the same. [;)]

Christian Alexander

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1277873#Comment_1277873

Thanks Rosie. A friend of mine told me that the other day. `

David Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1277824#Comment_1277824

How can I find what the scholars say on the topic? I have read all of Paul's corpus.

This series has what you describe. It's not super up-to-date, but it contains a fairly broad swath of commentaries.

https://www.logos.com/product/197853/exegetical-summaries-series

I've read Paul, too, but to answer the question you are asking would require me to reread him again with the specific intentions and objectives in mind, where I was specifically noting his salvation language. Then I would locate all the places outside Paul where the same language is used and compare.