Once we marked up the entirety of Psalms and Revelations and conducted our analysis, we were able to come to a number of conclusions regarding our research. Our original research questions: what is the emotional tone and language of the book of Psalms and the book of Revelations? And, is there any variation from the Old Testament to the New Testament? were both answered, and we also found some surprising occurences of overlaps between tones and emotions that we were not expecting.
For Psalms, the emotion and tone intersections were much higher than that of Revelations, supporting the debate that the Old Testament tends to be more emotive than the New Testament. Revelations tended to have a much smaller count overall, again supporting the debate of Old versus New Testaments. As a whole, a few of the overlaps that we found surprising in the range of tones and emotions were between joy and violence, coming in with a count of 154 instances in Psalms, and 75 instances in Revelations, making for the highest overlap of tone and emotion in the whole book. In the same manner, joy and righteousness came in with a surprising count of 208 in Psalms. On the lower side of the spectrum, but still surprising, we found that the emotion of fear only overlapped with the tone of fear once, and the tone of anxiety twice.
While those counts did surprise us, there were a few counts we were expecting. Praise and joy showed up the most in Psalms with an overall count of 701 instances. Righteousness and anger overlapped in Psalms 318 times, making it the second largest count following joy and praise. These overlaps were ones that we had expected to see in correlation with each other, and they support the findings of our research as a whole.