A Corpus of Biblical Names in the Greek New Testament to Study the Additions, Omissions, and Variations across Different Manuscripts

The analysis of textual variants of verses in the Ancient Greek New Testament across different manuscripts has mainly been done by close reading with manual effort. With the increasing number of transcriptions of the different manuscripts, quantitative analyses (so-called distant reading) can be used to search for patterns of omission, addition, or other variations, to formulate novel hypotheses to be investigated by close reading. In this work, we present a corpus of biblical names including spelling variation and inflections and their mentions in the transcriptions of the Ancient Greek New Testament.针对不同抄本中古希腊语新约各节经文的文本异文（textual variants）分析，过往主要通过人工精读（close reading）的方式完成。随着各类抄本转录文本的数量持续增长，定量分析（即所谓远读（distant reading））可被用于搜寻省略、增补或其他变体的分布模式，进而提出可通过精读开展验证的全新研究假说。本研究构建了一份涵盖拼写变体、词形变化的圣经专有名词语料库，并收录了这些名词在古希腊语新约抄本转录文本中的出现记录。