A (Not So) New Numbering System for Greek New Testament Lexemes

15th December 2015 / by James Tauber

Ten years ago, when Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen and I started collaborating, we came up with a way of referencing lexemes that would satisfy both the lumpers and splitters. At the time we wrote a paper that we circulated to a small audience but now it’s finally up on Academia.edu.

The 2006 unpublished paper is entitled A New Numbering System for Greek New Testament Lexemes.

Here’s the abstract:

Numbering systems (such as Strong’s) are a popular way to reference the lexemes of the Greek New Testament corpus but a straight enumeration is not without problems, particularly when there is disagreement about whether two forms are the same lexeme or not. We present a way of referencing lexemes that allows competing viewpoints to be represented simultaneously. Existing numbering systems can be mapped into this new system without any loss of granularity and new analyses can be expressed without violating the integrity of existing references into the system.

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By day I’m an entrepreneur, web technologist and open-source developer but my academic background is in linguistics (along with some classics, comparative philology, and educational statistics) and my main avocation is working on text, annotations, analysis and software relating to historical languages with a particular interest in facilitating better learning.

While my focus has mostly been on Biblical Greek, much of the work is highly relevant to other Hellenistic Greek texts, other dialects of Ancient Greek and, indeed, texts in completely different languages as well.

All code written for this endeavour is open source and text and data is made available under a Creative Commons license to the extent allowed by the sources used.

I can be contacted at jtauber@jtauber.com.

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