Project Description

The Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament is a long-term project at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony. It fills a huge lacuna, as no modern edition of the Bible in Coptic exists. The project aims to provide a complete documentation of the manuscript evidence, digital editions of all OT manuscripts, critical editions of all OT books, corpus-linguistic analyses and translations into English, German and Arabic.

Aims and Methodology

• Codicological and textual reconstruction of all extant witnesses to the Coptic-Sahidic Old Testament
• Standardised system for naming Coptic biblical codices
• Development of digital tools for the Coptic Bible / Coptic literature (e.g., Manuscript Speculation Tool, Sahidic Bible Citation Database)