[osis-core] Bible.Vul

Chris Little osis-core@bibletechnologieswg.org
Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:35:31 -0700 (MST)


On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Harry Plantinga wrote:

> Should we use Bible.Vul:1Kgs, 2Kgs, 3Kgs, and 4Kgs, or 1Sam, 2Sam, 1Kgs,
> 2Kgs?

Since 1 Kings in a Catholic Bible and 1 Samuel in a Protestant Bible have
the same abstract referent, they should use the same ID (1Sam).

> The end result, of course, is that "Bible:1Kgs" and "Bible.Vul:1Kgs"
> refer to different books, so you can't think of IDs like 1Kgs as
> refering to a unique book.

Per the SBL Handbook of Style 8.3.1, you would have to use 1-4Kgdms for
the Catholic Bibles like this, so 1Kgs would be unique in any case.

--Chris