2024-2025 Grant in Aid of Research
Coding the Greek New Testament in an Open Source Environment.
Saulo de Oliveira Cantanhede
Over the centuries, the Bible has been reproduced in various forms, from scrolls to codex, handwritten codex to printed books, and, more recently, the digital Bible. This research involves a data conversion project to convert an existing open-source Nestle 1904 Greek New Testament encoded in XML format through Text-Fabric software. The data was converted using Python packages and made available in a GitHub repository for programmers and non-programmers. The resulting annotated text can be used for morphological and syntactical linguistic research. Also, we developed more than 50 Text-Fabric features that can be grouped into the grid, sectional, lexical, orthographic, text-critical markers, morphology, syntactical, semantic, and relational features. Further, this research can demonstrate how one can use an open source code and data that targets the general user rather than only the specific needs of linguistic research, developing an end-user comprehensive documentation, how linguistic concepts should have the end user in mind, and the importance of a participative project in the humanities.