Sorry lots of typos in the last email from my phone. Some corrections below:
On September 1, 2022 2:41:57 PM GMT+02:00, "Troy A. Griffitts" <scr...@crosswire.org> wrote: >So, LXX is hard. Chris Little did a bit of research a while back on editions >of the Greek OT. Some of his hard work is available here: > >https://crosswire.org/svn/sword-tools/trunk/versification/lxx_v11ns/ > >There are all kinds of crazy things in there, including out of order verse >numbers (SWORD doesn't currently support), more than one text tradition of the >same book: > >https://crosswire.org/study/bookdisplay.jsp?mod=LXXM > >Notice in the index along the left JoshB and JoshA, JudgB and JudgA, etc. > >In the end, we decided the least of all evils was simply to settle on a >superset LXX v11n that contains a place for everything. The downside of this >is that you may find empty verses (as David has found). Another downside is >that we allow the same content to be versified in different ways IN THE SAME >V11N depending on how the edition versifies it-- this makes it very hard to >build a map file to show a true parallel display in the future. The upside is >that we can show most LXX editions the way they were published, and that >outweighed the downsides. If we ever actually improve our mapping data to >show, among others, LXX next to Masoretic versification, we can consider >breaking out the LXX into multiple v11ns or some other solution (v11n >exceptions in the .conf file has been a consideration), but this hasn't seen >anyone really step up to do all this mapling data work-- except for the hard >work from Костя for initial design and implementation of v11n mappings support >and a few initial mappings. > >Anyway, that's the background and problems, with the path to where we are >today, > >Troy > > > >On September 1, 2022 2:12:31 PM GMT+02:00, domcox <domini...@corbex.org> wrote: > > David Haslam<dfh...@protonmail.com> writes: > > Thanks Pierre, For information on 1 Enoch, see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch I now rather wonder > why this book is even specified in the LXX versification? > > IMHO, 1 Enoch should not be specified in the LXX v11n. > > I propose to remove it from the current v11n definition, > SWORD source file: include/canon_lxx.h > > > -- Dom > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to > unsubscribe/change your settings at above page -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
