[osis-core] Element Review: <reading>

[Steve DeRose]

At 08:42 AM -0400 06/19/02, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>Troy,
>
>Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>
>>Is the purpose for reading to:
>>
>>allow for The Amplified Bible
>>
>>or for notations like 2 thes 2:13
>>which most texts render aparXA as the contracted ap' (apo) arXAs 
>>(from the beginning)  but most texts will note something like:
>>alternate reading: aparXAn (first fruits)
>>
>>or possibly something like:
>>lit.: a son of God
>
>The third example (as I remember the discussion with Eric in Rome). 
>Reading occurs in <note> to indicate an alternative reading from 
>another source. The Amplified Bible would be covered with 
><transChange> to indicate a departure from translation to expansion 
>(slippery distinction I know but not sure how to be more precise).

That's my recollection too. We should be sure to explain it with some 
examples in the doc.

>
>
>>
>>or possibly for minor text crit, like many NKJV general study 
>>Bibles have, like:
>>NU: omits this phrase
>>to note variants in NKJV probably due to underlying greek variants 
>>between TR and Nestle-Aland/UBS GNT (NU)
>>
>Patrick
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Patrick Durusau wrote:
>>
>>><reading> has: <foreign>, <milestone>, <name>, <reference>, <seg>, <w>.
>>>
>>>Looks like it needs: <abbr>, <divineName>, <transChange>?
>>>
>>>Comments?
>>>
>>>Patrick
>>>
>>
>>
>
>--
>Patrick Durusau
>Director of Research and Development
>Society of Biblical Literature
>pdurusau@emory.edu


-- 

Steve DeRose -- http://www.stg.brown.edu/~sjd
Chair, Bible Technologies Group -- http://www.bibletechnologies.net
Email: sderose@speakeasy.net
Backup email: sderose@mac.com, sjd@stg.brown.edu