[B-Greek] RE: Scientific Greek Interinear Project

Alan Bunning bunning at myrealbox.com
Thu Feb 5 11:59:37 EST 2004


Here are some brief answers to the questions raised so far:

1. Why?

As far as I know the 1000's of original texts and variants are not
computerized and thus not available for rigorous analysis. Once
computerized, incredible research could be done that has never been done.
The consitent interlinear tie to English for any or all texts is just a
useful step.

2. Why use a century (or more?) old lexicon and a rabidly anti catholic
series of "word studies" as your data base for what Greek words mean?

That is not what I am using them for. What they provide is a first cut at
computerized links and groupings of greek words. These could not be used for
my purposes anyway since they are meanings for root words, not word/parsing
combinations. I tend to use Bauer a lot when I want to know what a word
really means.

3. Using Byzantine Text or Textus Receptus?

All the texts mentioned in phase 1 are but composites, not originals. The
composites are done first in phase 1 for proof of concept and to glean the
parsings and ties to roots from previous works which will later allow
auto-parsing and root-linking to the words in the originals. I also suppose
those who value those texts would also be grateful. Once enough originals
are stored, the value of ANY of these composites greatly diminishes. The
computer could produce any composite desired base on age of text, number of
texts, location of text, or any other criteria, and then automatically
coallate the appropriate variant apparatus.

4. The theoretical problem of a forcing a Greek word to have a single
English meaning in all contexts (such as bat in English).

This is not a problem because a single English meaning is not chosen. As
previously stated, multiple slashes "/" will be used for words with more
than one connotation. Thus anytime a greek word is used, the reader will see
all possible choices of meaning. I gave the example of "word/reason" for
logos because I couldn't think of any good ones off the top of my head. Thus
whenever logos shows up, the reader is presented with "word/reason" and
whatever other words separated by slashes should be added to the meaning.
One goal is to present the raw data to the reader with as little theogolical
bias as possible. This is not a translation.




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