Editor’s Digest April 2026: Persian, Turkic, and Biblical Studies
In my first Editor’s Digest in December 2024, I summarised the posts of the Persian, Turkic, and Biblical Studies team published between…
Category: Biblical Studies
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Current Trends in Digital Corpora and Manuscript Archives of Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez)
Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez: ግዕዝ Gəʽ(ə)z), one of the classical written languages preserved on the African continent, has sustained religious and…
Xeirographa: Learn to Read Greek New Testament Manuscripts
Introduction The jump from reading the text of the Greek New Testament in a printed edition to reading the same…
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Exploring the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room API
While not readily apparent, the New Testament Virtual Manuscript (NTVMR) room has an API that is publicly accessible. An API,…
Analyzing Collation Files: Apatosaurus
In my last post, I explored how to collate TEI XML transcriptions of Greek New Testament manuscripts, yielding a TEI…
Editor’s Digest December 2024: Persian, Turkic, and Biblical Studies
Since September 2024, I have been the editor of the new section of The Digital Orientalist on Persian, Turkic, and…
Collating Greek Manuscripts
Introduction In my last post, I explored tools in a software package called Criticus that helps move from transcription to…
Criticus: A tool to move from transcription to collation
Introduction In my last few posts, I explored how Python could be used to do some codicological analysis of manuscripts…
Using Python to Analyze Greek New Testament Manuscripts
This post will take a break from writing about using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room, the topic I covered…
A Guide for Using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (Part 3)
This post continues my series on using the New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room (NTVMR) for researching and transcribing Manuscripts of…