[B-Greek] Interlinear Scripture Analyzer
Stephen C. Carlson
scarlson at mindspring.com
Sat Oct 11 15:34:27 EDT 2003
"Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 at comcast.net> wrote:
>Thanks for this. But it appears to me that the Greek text that is used
>as the base for the interlinear is an Uncial text. Am I incorrect here?
Their font for displaying the Greek text is definitely an uncial font
(though it seems configurable), but they claim that their text is
Westcott & Hort 1881 with NA26/27 variants.
The interlinear is closely tied to the author's linguistic theories, which
differs from the usual understanding today; he wants to have as close
to as a one-to-one correspondence between morphemes (the meaning
units that make up words, not just words themselves) as possible. Thus,
it may take quite some getting used to seeing EUAGGELION glossed as
"WELL-MESSAGE" and AFWRISMENOS as "HAVING-been-FROM-definED".
It really is an attempt to convert as much of the Greek medium (not
message) into English as possible, eschewing translation for morphemic
transliteration.
Stephen Carlson
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