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Digitizing Kennicott’s Collation of the Hebrew Bible: Experiences of Encoding and of Computer-assisted Stemmatic Analysis

From the book Jewish Studies in the Digital Age

  • Luigi Bambaci

Abstract

This article describes the creation of a rule-based parser for digitizing Kennicott’s collation of the Hebrew Bible (Section 1). We will illustrate how it is possible to exploit the tree-like structure inherent in the critical apparatus of Kennicott’s collation in order to generate xml code automatically via a context- free grammar (Section 2). Finally, we will present an experiment of computer- assisted stemmatic analysis of the manuscript tradition of the book of Qohelet, which was made possible by encoding (Section 3). Both the digitization of Kennicott’s apparatus and the stemmatic analysis of the textual tradition are part of an ongoing project devoted to the preparation of a born-digital eclectic edition of the book of Qohelet.

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