test2 - CoptOT Public

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)

Outcomes

A List of Coptic Biblical Manuscripts (in cooperation with S. Richter and K. Sandmeier, INTF Münster)
Digital editions (diplomatic & critical) and translations of the OT
Huge corpus of digitised texts for the lexicography, dialectology and linguistic history of Ancient Egyptian

Digital Workflow

Cataloguing of Manuscripts

Manuscripts are identified, described and connected with stable catalogue metadata.

With Cooperation Partners

With cooperation partners: a digital edition and information gateway for the entire Coptic Bible
A virtual library of Coptic literature and manuscripts
Integrated digital linguistic analysis and lexicography tools
An annotated corpus of the Sahidic Old Testament created from our Basetext is available on the website of our partner project Coptic Scriptorium
Digital text re-use and digital stylometry research