Vaticanus Update - Images of the entire NT

Pasquale is at it again. This time he's put together a new module that contains images of Codex Vaticanus for the entire New Testament.

This module is very large, as it has two complete editions of Vaticanus.

The first edition which is directly linked to the Resource Summary Window, is the pseudofacsimile of Vaticanus by Giuseppe Cozza-Luzi and Carlo Vercellone (Bibliorum sacrorum Graecus Codex Vaticanus: auspice Pio IX. Pontifice Maximo [Romae: Typis et impensis S. Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1869]). In the Gospel of John and in James the pseudofacsimile images have been replaced with better images of the actual Codex Vaticanus.

Each of the images mentioned above is in turn linked to an image of Tischendorf's transcription of Vaticanus (Novum Testamentum Vaticanum: post Angeli Maii aliorumque imperfectos Labores ex ipso codice [Lipsiae: Giesecke et Derient, 1867]).

To install this file, download and unzip into your BibleWorks 7/databases folder. If you have previously installed an earlier edition of Pasquale's Vaticanus module, just let the new unzipped files overwrite them.

Enjoy this great addition to BibleWorks by Pasquale Amicarelli!

DOWNLOAD (115MB!)

New Module — Intro. to Norton's NT Peshitta Trans.

Ewan MacLeod has compiled and tagged a new module which will be of special interest to scholars of the Syriac New Testament:

Norton, William. A Translation of the Peshito-Syriac Text and of the Received Greek Text of Hebrews, James, 1 Peter and 1 John, With an Introduction, on the Peshito-Syriac Text, and The Revised Greek Text of 1881. London: W.K. Bloom, 1889.

In essence, this module is an "extensive introduction" to a translation already included in BibleWorks 7.0 — the Norton Translation of the NT Peshitta (NOR). According to the NOR copyright & source file, this introduction includes a "history of the Peshitta and an analysis of readings compared with the Greek text." It also "has footnotes regarding the variant readings of the Peshitta." Ewan has been kind enough to convert this introduction into a CHM Module, that is completely tagged and tied into the Resource Summary Window. Many thanks, Ewan!

Download! (103KB)

Update of Alexandrinus Module

Pasquale has sent an updated version of the Alexandrinus module.

Download HERE.

The update includes the front matter from The Codex Alexandrinus. London: Longman & Co., 1909.

User-database (update): Homer and Hesiod text and morphology

Again with much thanks and praise to John Jackson, I present the Greek text, morphology and English translation to Hesiod's works Theogony and Works and Days.

You will note, these versions (HHJ and HJM) are much different than the other classical Greek databases I have offered. All of the other texts have simply been Greek text. If you wanted to search full forms, you could do so, but you would not be able to search by lemma or by morphology because those texts were not morphologically tagged. However, HHJ and HJM are companion texts which must be compiled together and will then allow you to use the Homer/Hesiod text just like you would use the parsed versions of other Greek databases in BibleWorks (i.e. the LXX/NT, Josephus, Philo and Apostolic Fathers). Check them out and play around with them. You will be amazed!

As Jim said in a previous post, the great thing about BibleWorks is that it allows users to augment and supplement the already amazing package, and all this at no extra cost. The cost involved is the work and effort done by users to make these things possible and we are very thankful that users are kind enough to offer these works to other BibleWorks users!

User-database: The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg (English)

For those of you who want something other than Greek, Jay Palmer so kindly put together this database.


The Legends of the Jews
Volumes 1- 4

Volume 1. The Creation of the World
Volume 2. Bible Times and Characters from Joseph to the Exodus
Volume 3. Bible Times and Characters from the Exodus to the Death of Moses
Volume 4. Bible Times and Characters from Joshua to Esther

Formatted for BibleWorks by Jay Palmer.
I have divided the work by volume and chapter. The title of each chapter follows immediately after the volume/ chapter numbers and precedes the body of each chapter. Ginzberg's endnotes, which are found in volumes 5-6, are extremely helpful. As a result, I did not remove the endnote numbers provided by Philologos.

The following information is provided by Philologos:
Volumes I and II of this book were prepared from text in the public domain; Volume III was prepared by K.D. Maynard, a friend of Philologos; Volume IV was prepared by K.D. Maynard and Philologos. Additional volumes, which are not online are: Volumes V and VI which contain notes to the previous volumes and Vol. VII which is an index. This electronic version has been slightly edited and/or formatted for online viewing. Comments or corrections should be sent to owner-bpr@philologos.org (http://philologos.org)

New User-Created Modules & Texts

If you frequent the BibleWorks forum, then you know that some BibleWorks users have been busy making some useful modules and texts.

Pasquale Amicarelli, of Italy, has put together a module that contains images of Codex Alexandrinus. These images are indexed so that if you are looking at any New Testament text in BibleWorks you can click a link in your Resource Summary Window and be taken immediately to the correct page. Pasquale is working on similar modules for Vaticanus and Sinaiticus! You can download the Alexandrinus file HERE (80MB!).

Meanwhile Dan Dyke of dabar.org has been putting together a fantastic collection of ancient texts in translation that can compiled into BibleWorks databases. Take a look at his site!

Ewan MacCleod, with the permission of Raphael Lataster at aramaicpeshitta.com has compiled a module containing the book Was the New Testament Really Written in Greek? Regardless of your views on the topic, this module provides an example of another use for CHM Modules integrated into BibleWorks.

I know that everyone has their "favorite" Bible software. BibleWorks is my favorite because Mike Bushell, Michael Tan and the rest of the BibleWorks crew have configured the program so users can "soup it up" with custom modules, databases and even custom links to the web.

Keep it up BibleWorks! Keep it up BibleWorks users!

User database: Aeschines' Speeches (Greek)

Right now I'm taking 7 different graduate level classes. In other words, there's a reason why it's been quiet lately (and probably will continue to be for my part). Mondays I sit in 4 different classes for a total of 8 hours. If you want to talk about fried, I know just what you mean :)

But somehow I trudge on. Speeches by Aeschines is what I have to offer today. More Greek rhetoric. Gotta love it!

If you want to know more about Aeschines, google him up. Or read the Greek database here :)

User database: Aristophanes' Works (Greek)

Labor Day Special. I labored so you don't have to :) ...

This is my first attempt at doing something rather difficult. I have taken all the complete works of Aristophanes and tried to fit them into BibleWorks so that the line numbers match up with what you are used to calling verse numbers in BibleWorks. The trick is this: it's almost impossible sometimes to figure out which word(s) go to which line at times. I've done my best through using OCT, TLG, LSJ and other references to determine line breaks, but I'll admit that there are probably quite a few errors because of my guesses (which I will gladly correct as you make me aware of them :) )

The reason why I went to this effort is because even though the line numbers are antiquated (I can't even find out a definitive place for answers), they are used in citations and reference works. So until someone else comes up with a different reference scheme and changes all the entries in LSJ, these line numbers still have meaning and that is why I tried to follow them. :)

The texts are from this public domain edition:
Aristophanes. Aristophanes Comoediae, ed. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart, vol. 1 and 2. F.W. Hall and W.M. Geldart. Oxford. Clarendon Press, Oxford. 1907.

Birds, Ecclesiazusae and Thesmophoriazusae were taken from Perseus Digital Library.