[osis-core] RE: What is happening

Patrick Durusau Patrick.Durusau at sbl-site.org
Mon Oct 11 16:30:31 MST 2004


Fred,

Fred Mellings wrote:
> The Paratext LXX copy only leaves out ESG S3Y PS2 MAN -- it has all the 
> other 88 books (it is currently not possible to process anything at a 
> position higher than 84) even if it had its bookmname name mapped to 
> another.
> 
> The Work I hold for processing has one book outside the OSIS range 
> (position 91)  -- As a result it can't be processed even if the 
> Processors.conf were given a mapping to an OSIS recognised book
> 

Sorry, what do you mean by 'OSIS range?' There isn't a range limit, as 
in a number of books in osisIDs.

> Whatever conclusion you all come too there should still be some 
> mechanism to allow all of the 92 to be processed within the OSIS core 
> and be mapped to their relevant name/s
>

I think we are still confusing several issues here. Take Judges B for 
instance. Both in the Hebrew and NRSV, Judges has 21 chapters. In OSIS, 
both would have the name Judges and indicate in the header that one is 
the NSRV text and the other is the BHS text.

So, what is the difference with Judges B? Why should it be treated 
differently? I realize that ParaText does treat it differently but that 
is not a sufficient basis for deciding to treat it differently from the 
book of Judges from the Hebrew or English text.

If it is some processing reason, which is entirely legitimate, there are 
means other than giving the book a unique name in OSIS to achieve the 
same result. Such as saying Judges and a source element that says LXX. 
Perfectly acceptable way to map from Judges B to Judges (source = LXX), 
and it goes both ways.

But, someone will have to say why the names are different, not simply 
that they are. That is not enough information to craft a solution that 
maps to and from ParaText, which is a very good goal.

Hope you are having a great day!

Patrick



> Fred
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Durusau" <pdurusau at emory.edu>
> To: <osis-core at crosswire.org>
> Cc: <kdeblois at biblesocieties.org>; "'Fred Mellings'" 
> <fredmellings at tiscali.co.uk>; "'Todd Tillinghast'" 
> <todd at contentframeworks.com>; "'David Landin'" <director at wa-uk.org>; 
> <osis-core at bibletechnologieswg.org>; "'Emma Canales'" <ecanales at sbu.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 9:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [osis-core] RE: What is happening
> 
> 
>> Guys,
>>
>> I am hopeful we can finally put both the latest version of the schema 
>> and the Users Manual to bed by the end of October.
>>
>> Seems like the book names is one of those issues we need to address.
>>
>> Any comments on how the book names came to be in the first place? 
>> Chris Little seems to indicate in a prior post that they are found in 
>> Ralfs LXX. Which is fine but that does not make it another book of 
>> Judges for example.
>>
>> In other words, we don't have a name for the book of Judges in 
>> Aramaic, versus Greek, versus Hebrew, even if it is an old translation 
>> of the same.
>>
>> Hope everyone is having a great day!
>>
>> Patrick
>>
>>
>> Patrick Durusau wrote:
>>
>>> Kees,
>>>
>>> Thanks for asking Fred for the overview and thanks to Fred for 
>>> providing it!
>>>
>>> I see what may be part of the problem, you want to make references to 
>>> different versions by book name? Ah, ok, that makes sense. So that 
>>> you can distinguish a reference to Judges(Vaticanus) from 
>>> Judges(otherwise)? And you want it to be a standard set of names?
>>>
>>> BTW, you say: "The Septuagint contains two versions of Daniel. That
>>> goes for Susanna and Bel and the Dragon too."
>>>
>>> Does that mean we need three names for Daniel? (the standard one plus 
>>> two for the different versions in the Septuagint?)
>>>
>>> Questions:
>>>
>>> Does everyone agree that for reference purposes, we need standard 
>>> names to refer to the 8 books that Fred has listed?
>>>
>>> I think of these as versions, with the exception of Odae, which we 
>>> would handle in the header for an OSIS encoded document, but I think 
>>> he wants to be able to construct references to particular versions of 
>>> books. Normally I would say handle that in the OSIS header but these 
>>> are going to be common across all commentaries, etc.
>>>
>>> Comments/suggestions?
>>>
>>> Hope everyone is having a great day!
>>>
>>> Patrick
>>>
>>>>  You have 84 books already listed The 66 standard books (not listed 
>>>> here) and 18 Apocrypha books (listed below) which leaves 8 books you 
>>>> don't cover
>>>>  Paratext position     Three letter code                OSIS name
>>>> 68                          Tob                                   Tob
>>>> 69                          Jdt                                    Jdt
>>>> 70                          Esg AddEsth
>>>> 71                          Wis                                   
>>>> Wis 72 Sir                                     Sir
>>>> 73                          Bar                                    Bar
>>>> 74                          Lje                                    
>>>> EpJer
>>>> 75                          S3Y                                   
>>>> PrAzar
>>>> 76                          Sus                                   Sus
>>>> 77                          Bel                                    Bel
>>>> 78                          1Ma                                  1Macc
>>>> 79                          2Ma                                  2Macc
>>>> 80                          3Ma                                  3Macc
>>>> 81                          4Ma                                  4Macc
>>>> 82                          1Es                                   1Esd
>>>> 83                          2Es                                   2Esd
>>>> 84                          Man                                  PrMan
>>>> 85                          Ps2                                  PssSol
>>>>  Your software does not process any number higher than the above
>>>>  The 8 books not covered in the OSIS schema are:-
>>>>  Paratext position   Three letter code    Information from Paratext 
>>>> Chapters
>>>> 86                         ODA                     Odae 14
>>>> 87                         PSS                     Psalms of Solomon 18
>>>> 88                         JSA                     Joshua A 24
>>>> 89                         JDB                     Judges B 21
>>>> 90                         TBS                     Tobit 
>>>> S            14
>>>> 91                         SST                     Susannah Th 1
>>>> 92                         DNT                     Daniel Th 12
>>>> 93                         BLT                      Bel and the 
>>>> Dragon 1
>>>>           Note: Daniel Th. is the Daniel version by Theodotion which 
>>>> is a revision of the Septuagint. The Septuagint contains two 
>>>> versions of Daniel. That goes for Susanna and Bel and the Dragon too.
>>>>
>>>> For Joshua there are the "classic" Joshua and part of the book of 
>>>> Joshua from the Codex Alexandrinus which has been added in Rahlfs' 
>>>> version of the Septuagint. This latter version only contains of part 
>>>> of chapter 15.
>>>>
>>>> For Judges there are two versions as well, which are both complete. 
>>>> The "extra" book of Judges found in Rahlfs is the one from the Codex 
>>>> Vaticanus.
>>>>
>>>> Odae is from the Septuagint as well. These are songs but they are 
>>>> different from the Psalms of Solomon. The book Odae actually is a 
>>>> collection of songs from both the Old and New Testaments, like the 
>>>> song of Moses (Exodus 15), Hannah (1 Samuel 2), Mary (Luke 1), etc.
>>>>
>>>> Tobit S. is an additional version of Tobit from the Codex Sinaiticus.
>>>>
>>>>  Regarding Chapters and verses these are covered in the .vrs files 
>>>> which you already have.
>>>> The OSIS team need to talk with someone in UBS to get this sorted 
>>>> because it will keep cropping up because these books exist even 
>>>> though OSIS does not recognise them
>>>>  Fred
>>>>
>>>>     ----- Original Message -----
>>>>     From: Todd Tillinghast <mailto:todd at contentframeworks.com>
>>>>     To: 'Fred Mellings' <mailto:fredmellings at tiscali.co.uk>
>>>>     Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 5:31 PM
>>>>     Subject: RE: What is happening
>>>>
>>>>     Fred,
>>>>
>>>>     I am not sure which 6 you are talking about exactly but I think
>>>>     there is enough confusion that the UBS will have to make a 
>>>> statement
>>>>     about at least a couple.
>>>>
>>>>     Can you list the six UBS Bible book names that seem unclear to you
>>>>     along with how many chapters (and what their numbers are if they
>>>>     don?t start with ?1?) and how many verses if they only have one
>>>>     chapter?
>>>>     I will offer my opinion on the ones that seem clear.
>>>>
>>>>     Todd
>>>>
>>>>     -----Original Message-----
>>>>     From: Fred Mellings [mailto:fredmellings at tiscali.co.uk]
>>>>     Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 3:03 AM
>>>>     To: Todd Tillinghast
>>>>     Subject: Re: What is happening
>>>>
>>>>     Todd,
>>>>
>>>>     Isn't the description (from the Paratext help) that someone sent 
>>>> enough?
>>>>
>>>>     Fred
>>>>
>>>>         ----- Original Message -----
>>>>
>>>>         From: Todd Tillinghast <mailto:todd at contentframeworks.com>
>>>>
>>>>         To: 'Fred Mellings' <mailto:fredmellings at tiscali.co.uk>
>>>>
>>>>         Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 9:09 AM
>>>>
>>>>         Subject: RE: What is happening
>>>>
>>>>         Fred,
>>>>
>>>>         I am not sure we can really make a reliable assessment 
>>>> regarding
>>>>         the identification of the 6 extra books without the UBS clearly
>>>>         stating what they mean for the files to be.
>>>>
>>>>         Todd
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Patrick Durusau
>> Director of Research and Development
>> Society of Biblical Literature
>> Patrick.Durusau at sbl-site.org
>> Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
>> Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model
>>
>> Topic Maps: Human, not artificial, intelligence at work!
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Patrick Durusau
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Patrick.Durusau at sbl-site.org
Chair, V1 - Text Processing: Office and Publishing Systems Interface
Co-Editor, ISO 13250, Topic Maps -- Reference Model

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