Question re: John Mark Hicks and pattern language and the search

Considering argumentation schema led me to pattern languages led me to How To Read Design Patterns in Biblical Narrative (bibleproject.com). Patterns from the Bible (lovesark.net), and John Mark Hicks whose Searching for Pattern I read a few years back and quickly forgot. Yes, there are hermeneutical approaches that precede the term "pattern language" that are related - typology, motif analysis, set scenes, perhaps even some work on word repetition - but I really am looking for the specific discipline.

So, I do a search on all my books for "pattern language" and get two bibliographic references to architecture where the term was first invented. Literally all other entries were of the form "pattern <end of sentence> Language" i.e. unrelated to what I am looking for. Does anyone know of a book or scholar or article that can open this rabbit trail? It really seems as if it should be a productive thread of Bible interpretation - despite BARD going super hallucination on it.

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DMB

The closest I have, from Fortress Commentary (which is kind of a neat commentary):

"Finally, Hermann Gunkel’s work in the early twentieth century was a watershed in studying psalms, since he initiated the systematic investigation of their patterned language and so identified various genres or types (see Gunkel 1967; 1998). Although the sequence and specific elements within psalms vary, characteristics can be identified for lament, thanksgiving, hymns, royal, wisdom, and torah psalms (see Gerstenberger 1988, 9–21).

Gunkel, Hermann. 1967. The Psalms: A Form-Critical Introduction. Second Edition. Trans. Thomas M. Horner. Biblical Series 19. Philadelphia: Fortress Press. Translated from vol. 1 of the second edition of Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Tubingen: J.C.B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1930).

Gunkel, Hermann; Joachim Begrich. 1998. Introduction to Psalms: The Genres of the Religious Lyric of Israel, Translated by James D. Nogalski. Mercer Library of Biblical Studies. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press

Plus:

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1278742#Comment_1278742

Thank you - that's at least a starting point.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1278745#Comment_1278745

This isn't helpful. But in my analytics using neural nets years back, on the greek especially, it was a trial separating author style preference (and trying to capture it), from what you're looking for. And that's without using (the nets being blind to) interpretive devices (type, etc). Hebrew was/is much easier. It just seems to me, absent a sizable sample base (maybe the Fathers), that the slicing/dicing mixes in with higher-level dependencies (my point to Christian).