TY - CHAP
T1 - Computer-Aided Linguistic Analysis for a Single Manuscript Witness: Preparing to Map the Opentext.org annotation
AU - Smith, Catherine
AU - O'Donnell, Matthew Brook
PY - 2016/11/17
Y1 - 2016/11/17
N2 - Porter has been a strong advocate of adopting a single manuscript approach over the traditional eclectic text approach as the basis for analysing the New Testament. This has implications for exegetical work including the use of linguistic models, another dominant strand in his work. Existing electronic texts of the New Testament that include various levels and types of annotation are based on eclectic texts, most often one of the editions of the Nestle-Aland or United Bible Societies. This is true for the OpenText.org annotation that implements a multilevel word, phrase and clausal analysis on the basis of NA27. In this paper we examine the issues of a text critical, methodological and technical nature that must be addressed if the OpenText.org syntactic annotation is to be successfully moved from Nestle-Aland to a single manuscript witness. Beginning with Codex Sinaiticus we use the Pauline corpus as a test case to illustrate the challenges and implications of this mapping and make some proposals for future annotation practice.
AB - Porter has been a strong advocate of adopting a single manuscript approach over the traditional eclectic text approach as the basis for analysing the New Testament. This has implications for exegetical work including the use of linguistic models, another dominant strand in his work. Existing electronic texts of the New Testament that include various levels and types of annotation are based on eclectic texts, most often one of the editions of the Nestle-Aland or United Bible Societies. This is true for the OpenText.org annotation that implements a multilevel word, phrase and clausal analysis on the basis of NA27. In this paper we examine the issues of a text critical, methodological and technical nature that must be addressed if the OpenText.org syntactic annotation is to be successfully moved from Nestle-Aland to a single manuscript witness. Beginning with Codex Sinaiticus we use the Pauline corpus as a test case to illustrate the challenges and implications of this mapping and make some proposals for future annotation practice.
U2 - 10.1163/9789004335936_005
DO - 10.1163/9789004335936_005
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 978-9004334892
T3 - Biblical Interpretation Series
SP - 106
EP - 137
BT - The Language and Literature of the New Testament
A2 - Dow, Lois
A2 - Evans, Craig
A2 - Pitts, Andrew
PB - Brill
ER -