[B-Greek] Apostolic Fathers (Michael Holmes) etc.

Eric Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 15 14:35:09 EST 2007


> Ladies and Gentlemen:
  > I've just started reading The Martyrdom of Polycarp in Holmes's book (and 
  > trying to ignore the translation on the facing pages!)
  > I was wondering if, graded on difficulty of Greek text, some of these 
  > writings are easier to read than others? (for the 1st yr+ student)
  > Also -- are there any lexical aids out there (akin to Zerwick/Grosvenor or 
  > Kubo, for the GNT) for the "Fathers"?
  > 
  > Just wondered...
  > 
  > Rgds
  > Steve
   
  Not the cheapest solution, but Logos Software is going to issue Holmes' APOSTOLIC 
  FATHERS along with Lightfoot's and Lake's (Loeb - as opposed to the newest version of 
  Loeb's which contains Bart Ehrman's translation) in electronic form about April 25, 2007 
  (FWIW, Holmes updated his translations, and an English-only edition was published 
  November 2006 - Logos will use the older one in the Greek-English edition, though):
   
  http://www.logos.com/products/prepub/details/2218
   
  "The Logos Bible Software edition will include three diglot editions of the Apostolic Fathers 
  with morphology added, so you're actually getting three Greek texts, three English 
  translations, and three morphologies for each of the ancient writings...plus introductions both 
  modern and historical. The three editions included in this product are Holmes (1999), Lake 
  (1912), and Lightfoot-Harmer (1898). Each edition contains Greek for each of the ancient 
  texts (Latin in a few cases where no Greek is extant), an English translation, and 
  morphological tagging of the Greek. All introductions and bibliographies included in the 
  original print works will also be included in the electronic edition.
   
  Benefits of the Logos Bible Software Edition
   
  As noted above, the Logos edition contains three Greek texts (with morphology) and three 
  English translations. That means you can open all six resources at once and link them to 
  scroll synchronously...even though the texts are in a different order in each edition. For 
  example, the Loeb edition in print (see page scans below) has Greek on the left-hand page, 
  with English on the right-hand page. In the Libronix DLS, there is one resource for the Greek 
  and one resource for the English that you can link together to scroll syncronously. The 
  margin notes and footnotes are in their respective language editions. The introductions will 
  probably be attached to the English version.
   
  The Greek resources are displayed in an interlinear format: one line for the manuscript 
  (the main text line), one line for the lexical/dictionary form of the word (the "lemma"), and 
  one line for the morphology code(s). This feature uses the interlinear functionality of Libronix 
  DLS, so you can arrange the order of these lines and display or hide each line individually. 
  Please note that English glosses will not be included in the interlinear display; as noted 
  above, the English is a separate resource.
   
  You can perform simple word or phrase searches on the Greek or English text, complex 
  proximity searches, and all other advanced searches that Libronix DLS makes possible. 
  You can also perform morphological searches on the Greek text, looking for particular 
  forms, grammatical constructions, or combinations of terms and morph codes.
   
  If you own the Biblical Languages Addin, the morphological visual filter can be used to 
  highlight words in the Greek text based on morphology. This is very helpful for identifying 
  recurrent patterns or discourse features of the text.
   
  As with all morph-coded texts in Libronix, you can hover the mouse over a word in the Greek 
  text for an instant parsing tip. The texts are also lemmatized for KeyLinking so you can 
  right-click on a word to look it up in whatever lexicon you may own. 
   
  Bible jumps (which are supplied in footnotes, since the original authors did not use 
  citations) will preview the cited passage when you hover the mouse or open your preferred 
  Bible directly to the passage when you click. References to the ancient writings from the 
  introductions will be hyperlinks that jump you directly to the cited material.


  Eric S. Weiss


 
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