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@@ -15,19 +15,20 @@ circulating and quite famous among the Judaeo-Christian community at that time.
 
 They shouldn't, however, be too much confused with the earlier `Sibylline books
 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibylline_Books>`__ [#]_. Sibylline books
-contained religious ceremonial advices that were consulted by the selected
-priests and curators in the Roman state, when it was in deep political trouble.
+contained religious ceremonial advice that were consulted by the selected
+priests and curators in the Roman state when it was in deep political trouble.
 The collection of the original Sibylline books were destroyed by different
 accidental events and deliberate actions in history.
 
 Pseudo-Sibylline oracles, on the other hand, contain Jewish narrative of the
-human history contrasted to the Greek mythology and to the chronology of the
-other great ancient empires. Other intention of the material is to support
-evolving Christian doctrine and interpretation of the prophesies. Prophesies
-were mostly grounded on Jewish tradition, but surprisingly some pagan world
-events also came to be interpreted as signs of the coming Messiah. Sibyl, as a
-woman prophetess, child of Noah in the Pseudo-Sibylline lore, has a unique
-character crossing over the common borders in several ancient religions and art.
+human history contrasted with the Greek mythology and to the chronology of the
+other great ancient empires. Another intention of the oracles was to support
+evolving Christian doctrine and interpretation of the prophecies. Prophecies
+were mostly grounded in Jewish tradition, but surprisingly some pagan world
+events also came to be interpreted as signs of the coming Messiah. Sibyl, the
+acclaimed author of the prophecies as a woman prophetess, the daughter of Noah
+in the Pseudo-Sibylline lore, has a unique character crossing over the common
+borders in several ancient religions and mythology.
 
 Good introductions to the Pseudo-Sibylline oracles can be found from these two
 books:
@@ -38,22 +39,27 @@ books:
 - Part 1 in `The Book Three of the Sibylline Oracles and Its Social Setting
 <https://books.google.fi/books?id=Zqh8ZQZqnWYC>`__ [#]_ by Rieuwerd Buitenwerf
 
-Some material in the Pseudo-Sibylline oracles contain cryptic puzzles,
+Focus of the study
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Some material in the Pseudo-Sibylline oracles contains cryptic puzzles,
 referring to persons, cities, countries, and epithets of God for example. These
 secretive references are often very general in nature, pointing only to the
 first letter of the subject and its numerical value. Solving them requires, not
-so much of mathematical or cryptographical skills in modern sense, but a proper
+so much of mathematical or cryptographical skills in a modern sense, but a proper
 knowledge of the context, both inner textual and historical context.
 
 Most of the alphanumeric riddles in the oracles can already be taken as solved
-by various researchers. Some of the riddles are still problematic and open for
-better proposals. Better yet, few of these open riddles are more complex and
+by various researchers. But, some of the riddles are still problematic and open
+for better proposals. Better yet, few of these open riddles are more complex and
 specific enough so that one may try to solve them by modern programmable tools.
 
-As an independent researcher not associated or affiliated by any organization,
+As an independent researcher not associated or affiliated with any organization,
 the sole motivation and purpose of mine in the chapters one and two is to
-provide a reusable and a testable method for processing and analysing ancient
-corpora, especially detecting alphanumeric patterns in text.
+provide a reusable and a testable method for processing and analyzing ancient
+corpora, especially detecting alphanumeric patterns in text. Although the
+target language in this study is Ancient Greek, the method should be applicable
+to any language using alphabetic numerals.
 
 Natural language processing
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