http://www.julian.textcrit.com An assortment of NT textual criticism comments and, frequently, how it relates to computers... Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:35:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Imagine my surprise when I learned that there are actually people out there who reads this blog. It was quite a shocker, I can assure you. Granted, my readership probably doesn't extend into double digits, but still, I never thought that anyone would pay attention. This whole thing was more ... http://www.julian.textcrit.com/?p=17 Dr Juan Garcés, the Curator of the Codex Sinaiticus Project, asked me to post the following: Codex Sinaiticus Conference British Library, London, 6-7 July 2009 The Codex Sinaiticus Project, an international initiative to reunite the entire manuscript in digital form and make it accessible to a global audience for the first time (see ... http://www.julian.textcrit.com/?p=16 I am hoping that a blog I just ran into can be explained away by the use of bad translation software. The result is rather humorous, however. My favorite is where John 1:1 is rendered as Toilet 1:1. Check it out: Cafe Apocalypsis http://www.julian.textcrit.com/?p=15 I have made a new page on the parser topic but until I figure out how to add the ability to add comments over there, you can add them here should you feel such an urge. Here is a link in case you didn't see the big one to the ... http://www.julian.textcrit.com/?p=14 After a long delay, I am now back to writing some more entries. For starters I have some observations on the SBL conference. First off, I was fairly appalled at the near-total lack of knowledge of even the most basic steps of scientific methodology. While there is no question that most ... http://www.julian.textcrit.com/?p=12 Looking at some studies of biblical manuscripts using statistical techniques (for example Wieland Wilker and Stephen Carlson, whose paper I can never find but luckily I have a print-out. Where is that paper, Stephen?), I was struck by the fact that quantification of variance seems to be ultimately boolean in ... http://www.julian.textcrit.com/?p=11 Well, it is time to re-visit this topic as I have the promised server-side program ready for public consumption. You can freely use it in whatever manner you please for non-commercial purposes. Before we talk about the program we will talk some more about unicode and fonts. You didn't think ... http://www.julian.textcrit.com/?p=9 I have time for one more entry before I leave next week. This time we will talk about textual representation and, if my patience with writing holds out, similarity coefficients. But first a few quick words about linear algrebra or, more specifically, vectors and matrices. A vector can be thought of ... http://www.julian.textcrit.com/?p=8 Well, as I am delving deeper and deeper into the world of text analysis things are getting more and more complicated. So I thought that I would write a series of blog entries describing the basics of statistics and how they apply to text. Eventually, we would have to look ... http://www.julian.textcrit.com/?p=7 Well, due to some recent discussions regarding the Pericope de Adultera (specifically John 8:1-11) I decided to use the power of computers to put this issue to bed. Well, we'll see. Dr. J. Gibson was kind enough to furnish me with some information regarding earlier analyses of the issue and, ... http://www.julian.textcrit.com/?p=5