[sword-devel] Module release: LXX

[Troy A. Griffitts]

So, LXX is hard. Chris Little did a bit of research a while back on 
editions of the Greek OT. Some of his hard work is available here:

https://crosswire.org/svn/sword-tools/trunk/versification/lxx_v11ns/

There are all kinds of crazy things in there, including our of order 
verse numbers (SWORD doesn't current support), more than one text 
tradition of the same book:

http://crosswire.org/study/bookdisplay.jsp?mod=LXXM

Notice in the index along the left JoshB and JoshA, JudgB and JudgA, etc.

In the end, we decided the worst of all evils was simply to settle on a 
superset LXX v11n that contains a place for everything.  The downside of 
this is that you may find a empty verses (as David has found).  Another 
downside is that we allow the same content to be versified in different 
ways IN THE SAME V11N depending on how the edition versifies it-- this 
makes it very hard to build a true parallel display in the future.  The 
upside is that we can simply show most LXX editions the way they were 
published, and that outweighed the downsides.  If we ever actually 
improve our mapping data to show LXX next to Masoretic versification, we 
can consider breaking out the LXX into multiple v11ns or some other 
solution (v11n exception in the .conf file has been a consideration), 
but this hasn't had anyone really step up to do all this work-- except 
for the hard work from Костя for initial design and implementation of 
v11n mappings support and a few initial mappings.

Anyway, that's the background and problems, with the path to where we 
are today,

Troy



On September 1, 2022 2:12:31 PM GMT+02:00, domcox <dominique at corbex.org> 
wrote:

    David Haslam<dfhdfh at protonmail.com>  writes:

        Thanks Pierre, For information on 1 Enoch, see
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch I now rather wonder
        why this book is even specified in the LXX versification? 


    IMHO, 1 Enoch should not be specified in the LXX v11n.

    I propose to remove it from the current v11n definition,
    SWORD source file: include/canon_lxx.h


    -- Dom
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