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* The Strong's data in the NT was obtained from the [[CrossWire_KJV#Text_Development_Stages|KJV2003 Project]] at CrossWire.
 
* The Strong's data in the NT was obtained from the [[CrossWire_KJV#Text_Development_Stages|KJV2003 Project]] at CrossWire.
  
Special thanks to the volunteers at Bible Foundation for keying the Hebrew/English data and of Project KJV2003 for working toward the completion of synchronizing the English phrases to the Stephanas [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textus_Receptus Textus Receptus], and to Dr. Maurice Robinson for providing the base Greek text with Strong's and Morphology.
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Special thanks to the volunteers at Bible Foundation for keying the Hebrew/English data and of Project KJV2003 for working toward the completion of synchronizing the English phrases to the Stephanus [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textus_Receptus Textus Receptus], and to Dr. Maurice A. Robinson for providing the base Greek text with Strong's and Morphology.
  
 
We are also appreciative of formatting markup that was provided by [http://www.ebible.org Michael Paul Johnson].  
 
We are also appreciative of formatting markup that was provided by [http://www.ebible.org Michael Paul Johnson].  
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One criteria was finding a text that the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Only_movement KJV-only] adherents felt was more accurate 1769 KJV text. Using various listings of differences between current and "true", dozens of dead tree texts in several stores were examined. Also, it was important to avoid copyright claims based upon minor changes in the text. Both combined to come up with the Public Domain [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofield_Reference_Bible Old Scofield Study Bible]<ref>The use of the Scofield in no way implies our endorsement of the extensive non-canonical study notes therein.</ref>. The Biblical text was thought to be one of the most faithful copies of the 1769 Oxford Edition.<ref>i.e. Even by those in the KJV Only movement.</ref> It was published in 1917, which was important in terms of USA copyright law. It was also considered to be a faithful red-letter text.
 
One criteria was finding a text that the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Only_movement KJV-only] adherents felt was more accurate 1769 KJV text. Using various listings of differences between current and "true", dozens of dead tree texts in several stores were examined. Also, it was important to avoid copyright claims based upon minor changes in the text. Both combined to come up with the Public Domain [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofield_Reference_Bible Old Scofield Study Bible]<ref>The use of the Scofield in no way implies our endorsement of the extensive non-canonical study notes therein.</ref>. The Biblical text was thought to be one of the most faithful copies of the 1769 Oxford Edition.<ref>i.e. Even by those in the KJV Only movement.</ref> It was published in 1917, which was important in terms of USA copyright law. It was also considered to be a faithful red-letter text.
  
We are in the process of obtaining a hard copy facsimile of the "Blayney" 1769 KJV text. This will be the reference text going forward.
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We have obtained a hard copy facsimile of the "Blayney" 1769 KJV text. This will be the reference text going forward.
  
 
===Need for a reference red-letter text===
 
===Need for a reference red-letter text===
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The Louis Klopsch 1901 KJV is used for red-letter markup for 2.10 and later.
 
The Louis Klopsch 1901 KJV is used for red-letter markup for 2.10 and later.
  
The 1769 KJV facsimile is used for text, front-matter, notes, cross-references, titles, .... for versions after 2.11.
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The 1769 KJV facsimile is used for text, front-matter, notes, cross-references, titles, .... for versions after 2.11.<BR>
* The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Volume 1 of 4, ISBN: 9781171169826
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The following 4 volumes are print on demand ECCO editions<ref>These "high quality" facsimile reprints contain numerous words with dotless letter ı &ndash; we must therefore assume that the publisher  applied some undeclared clean-up process to the page scans to remove "blemishes" that has had the unfortunate effect of changing dotted i to dotless ı in many words.</ref> published by [https://www.gale.com/ Gale].
* The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Volume 2 of 4, ISBN: 9781171169819
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* The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Volume 1 of 4, [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1171169825 ISBN-13: 9781171169826]
* The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Volume 3 of 4, ISBN: 9781171169802
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* The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Volume 2 of 4, [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1171169817 ISBN-13: 9781171169819]
* The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,<br/>Translated Out of the Original Greek:<br/>And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised,<br/>by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to by Read in Churches.<br/>Volume 4 of 4, ISBN: 9781171169796
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* The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Volume 3 of 4, [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1171169809 ISBN-13: 9781171169802]
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* The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Volume 4 of 4, [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1171169795/ ISBN-13: 9781171169796]<br/>Translated Out of the Original Greek: And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to by Read in Churches.
  
A scanned copy of the 1769 KJV is also available at http://www.originalbibles.com/1769-king-james-bible-benjamin-blayney/
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A scanned copy of the 1769 KJV<ref>Currently this is only for the books Genesis to Jeremiah.</ref> is also available at http://www.originalbibles.com/1769-king-james-bible-benjamin-blayney/
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'''Notes:'''
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<references/>
  
 
== Copyright ==
 
== Copyright ==
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* The Strong's numbers in the OT are from [http://www.bf.org/ The Bible Foundation].
 
* The Strong's numbers in the OT are from [http://www.bf.org/ The Bible Foundation].
 
* The Strong's numbers in the NT are from [http://apps.sebts.edu/FacultyUploads/Maurice%20Robinson%20CV.pdf Dr Maurice A. Robinson], Senior Professor of New Testament and Greek at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeastern_Baptist_Theological_Seminary Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary] in North Carolina.
 
* The Strong's numbers in the NT are from [http://apps.sebts.edu/FacultyUploads/Maurice%20Robinson%20CV.pdf Dr Maurice A. Robinson], Senior Professor of New Testament and Greek at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeastern_Baptist_Theological_Seminary Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary] in North Carolina.
* The OSIS XML markup is a unique effort that began with our KJV2003 project &ndash; Copyright © 2003-2016 The CrossWire Bible Society.
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* The OSIS XML markup is a unique effort that began with our KJV2003 project &ndash; Copyright © 2003-2017 The CrossWire Bible Society.
* The tagging of Strong's numbers to the NT text is a unique effort of our KJV2003 project &ndash;  Copyright © 2003-2016 The CrossWire Bible Society.
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* The tagging of Strong's numbers to the NT text is a unique effort of our KJV2003 project &ndash;  Copyright © 2003-2017 The CrossWire Bible Society.
  
 
=== Crown copyright, Letters Patent and the KJV ===
 
=== Crown copyright, Letters Patent and the KJV ===
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The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_Foreign_Bible_Society British & Foreign Bible Society] (based in the UK) respects this copyright status, although many American organisations do not respect it and treat it wrongly as if it were public domain.  In reality, the many editions of the KJV used in the USA are a revision of the text made by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bible_Society American Bible Society] and the rights for this revision are still held by ABS.
 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_Foreign_Bible_Society British & Foreign Bible Society] (based in the UK) respects this copyright status, although many American organisations do not respect it and treat it wrongly as if it were public domain.  In reality, the many editions of the KJV used in the USA are a revision of the text made by the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bible_Society American Bible Society] and the rights for this revision are still held by ABS.
  
'''Notes:'''
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Permission to publish the KJV in England and Wales can be obtained by following the guidance in [http://www.churchofengland.org/media/41098/litcopy.rtf A Brief Guide to Liturgical Copyright, third edition] (RTF file); permission to publish in Scotland requires contacting the Scottish Bible Board. All signatories to the International Copyright Treaty are obliged to recognize each other's copyrights, so, technically speaking, the KJV is copyrighted throughout the world. However, it is unlikely that any prosecution under copyright law would succeed outside the UK.
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<references/>
 
<references/>
  
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== Road Map ==
 
== Road Map ==
First we must decide how to markup the observed differences between the present text and the Blayney 1769 Oxford edition.<ref>Particularly what we should do with regard to spelling issues, as noted in David's user page [[User:David Haslam/Benjamin Blayney's 1769 KJV|Benjamin Blayney's 1769 KJV]].</ref>
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First we must decide how to markup or correct the observed differences between the present text and the Blayney 1769 Oxford edition.<ref>Particularly what we should do with regard to spelling issues, as noted in David's user page [[User:David Haslam/Benjamin Blayney's 1769 KJV|Benjamin Blayney's 1769 KJV]].</ref>
 
:''List briefly the further enhancements we would like to make in the future beyond the next release''.
 
:''List briefly the further enhancements we would like to make in the future beyond the next release''.
 
=== KJV module: ===
 
=== KJV module: ===
 
* Add Greek equivalent to Strong's numbers. (3.1)<ref>The next release after version 2.10 will jump straight to 3.1 - missing out 3.0 - as by then, the KJVA module will be made from the same XML file. KJVA is currently version 3.0.1</ref>
 
* Add Greek equivalent to Strong's numbers. (3.1)<ref>The next release after version 2.10 will jump straight to 3.1 - missing out 3.0 - as by then, the KJVA module will be made from the same XML file. KJVA is currently version 3.0.1</ref>
* Mark all proper names with the '''name''' element; with type '''person''', '''geographic''', '''nonhuman''', '''holiday''', '''ritual''', etc.<ref>These proposed name types are not yet finalised. See also [[Talk:OSIS 211 CR#Classifying_names_in_the_Bible]].</ref><ref>For name '''type="person"''', it would be useful to define a new OSIS attribute '''sex="male"''' or '''sex="female"'''.</ref><ref>Spelling variants could be associated by means of the '''regular''' attribute (e.g. Cedron for Kidron).</ref><ref>Consider using '''type="x-book"''' for the names of objects such as 'the book of Jasher'. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-canonical_books_referenced_in_the_Bible Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible].</ref><ref>Suggest use '''type''' value '''x-people-group''' for names such as 'Hittites', and '''x-people-group-member''' for the corresponding singular 'Hittite'.</ref><ref>Suggest use '''type="x-month"''' and '''n="1"''' to '''n="12"''' for the names of the months in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar#Names_of_months Hebrew calendar].</ref><ref>Suggest include '''subType="x-possessive"''' or '''subType="x-plural"'''. Also to make use of the attribute '''regular''' where this is appropriate.</ref><ref>Also need to identify several multi-word names in which a good part of the name is not capitalised.</ref><ref>Names within study notes should also be marked with the '''name''' element.</ref>
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* Correct the '''Cambridge''' spellings to '''Oxford''' spellings in accordance with the Blayney text.<ref>Analysis is well underway. Consult [[User:David Haslam|David]] for details.</ref>
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* Mark all natural numbers with the proposed [[OSIS 211 CR#New number element|new '''number''' element]]; with the numerical value recorded in the '''n''' attribute.
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* Mark all proper names with the '''name''' element; with type '''person''', '''geographic''', '''nonhuman''', '''holiday''', '''ritual''', etc.<ref>These proposed name types are not yet finalised. See also [[Talk:OSIS 211 CR#Classifying_names_in_the_Bible]].</ref><ref>For name '''type="person"''', it would be useful to define a new OSIS attribute '''sex="male"''' or '''sex="female"'''.</ref><ref>Spelling variants could be associated by means of the '''regular''' attribute (e.g. Cedron for Kidron).</ref><ref>Consider using '''type="x-book"''' for the names of objects such as 'the book of Jasher'. See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-canonical_books_referenced_in_the_Bible Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible].</ref><ref>Suggest use '''type''' value '''x-people-group''' for names such as 'Hittites', and '''x-people-group-member''' for the corresponding singular 'Hittite'.</ref><ref>Suggest use '''type="x-month"''' and '''n="1"''' to '''n="13"''' for the names of the months in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_calendar#Names_of_months Hebrew calendar].</ref><ref>Suggest include '''subType="x-possessive"''' or '''subType="x-plural"'''. Also to make use of the attribute '''regular''' where this is appropriate.</ref><ref>Also need to identify several multi-word names in which a good part of the name is not capitalised.</ref><ref>Names within study notes should also be marked with the '''name''' element.</ref>
 
* Use the '''foreign''' element to mark text that was transliterated from (e.g.) Aramaic to Greek in the NT.
 
* Use the '''foreign''' element to mark text that was transliterated from (e.g.) Aramaic to Greek in the NT.
 
* Also tag the '''Aramaic''' personal and place '''names''' in the NT. See [http://www.chaldean.org.uk/greek.htm].
 
* Also tag the '''Aramaic''' personal and place '''names''' in the NT. See [http://www.chaldean.org.uk/greek.htm].
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* Mark the 'sign off text' in the Epistles with the '''signed''' element?
 
* Mark the 'sign off text' in the Epistles with the '''signed''' element?
 
* Mark the closing "Amen." in NT books with the '''closer''' element?<ref>For some books, the closer element might enclose more than the word "Amen." Also, 3 John doesn't end with "Amen."</ref>
 
* Mark the closing "Amen." in NT books with the '''closer''' element?<ref>For some books, the closer element might enclose more than the word "Amen." Also, 3 John doesn't end with "Amen."</ref>
* Mark each 'refrain' in Deut.27.15-25 using the '''seg''' element and type '''refrain'''?<ref>i.e. "And all the people shall say, Amen."</ref><ref>This would require an addition to our custom OSIS schema.</ref><ref>Poetry line element '''l''' permits type="refrain", but the KJV doesn't use poetry lines.</ref>
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* Mark each 'refrain' in Deut 27:15-25 using the '''seg''' element and type '''refrain'''?<ref>i.e. "And all the people shall say, Amen."</ref><ref>This would require an addition to our custom OSIS schema.</ref><ref>Poetry line element '''l''' permits type="refrain", but the KJV doesn't use poetry lines.</ref>
* Mark each 'refrain' in Psalm.136 using the same method.<ref>i.e. "for his mercy endureth for ever."</ref><ref>Likewise for a few other similar verses where this wording is found.</ref>
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* Mark each 'refrain' in Psalm 136 using the same method.<ref>i.e. "for his mercy endureth for ever."</ref><ref>Likewise for a few other similar verses where this wording is found.</ref>
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* Mark the 'canonical colophon' at the end of Job 31:40<ref>i.e. "The words of Job are ended."</ref>
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* Mark the 'canonical colophon' in Psalms 72:20<ref>i.e. "The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended."</ref>
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* Mark the 'canonical colophon' at the end of Habakkuk 3:19<ref>i.e. "To the chief singer on my stringed instruments."</ref>
  
 
Further thoughts based upon having the Blayney edition:
 
Further thoughts based upon having the Blayney edition:
* Audit OT notes and make any necessary corrections. Check notes text for added words not in italics (e.g. Job.31.35).<ref>Such words should be wrapped in the '''transChange''' element. The SWORD engine will need to support the "italics inversion" rule.</ref>
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* Audit OT notes and make any necessary corrections (e.g. Psalm 119:24,42).
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* Check notes text for added words not in italics (e.g. Job 31:35).<ref>Such words should be wrapped in the '''transChange''' element. The SWORD engine will need to support the "italics inversion" rule.</ref>
 
* Move each '''note''' element to the start of its "catch word" in the verse (or title) text.<ref>Currently, all the notes are at the end of the verse. An intermediate step would be to move all notes to the start of the verse.</ref>
 
* Move each '''note''' element to the start of its "catch word" in the verse (or title) text.<ref>Currently, all the notes are at the end of the verse. An intermediate step would be to move all notes to the start of the verse.</ref>
* Add the special note symbols († ‖ ⁕) from Blayney.
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* Add the special note symbols († ‖ ⁕) from Blayney.<ref>In Blayney, these note symbols are normal case rather than superscript. There is also a space before the symbol as well as after.</ref>
 
* Add front-matter: dedicatory and preface, OT intro, NT intro, ....
 
* Add front-matter: dedicatory and preface, OT intro, NT intro, ....
 
* Add any end titles. e.g. The End of the /PROPHETS/. (after Malachi).
 
* Add any end titles. e.g. The End of the /PROPHETS/. (after Malachi).
* Add NT chapter descriptions.<ref name=cdt>Marking each verse number therein as a hyperlink to the corresponding verse.</ref>
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* Add NT chapter summaries.<ref name=cdt>Marking each verse number therein as a hyperlink to the corresponding verse.</ref>
* Add OT chapter descriptions.<ref name=cdt>Marking each verse number therein as a hyperlink to the corresponding verse.</ref>
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* Add OT chapter summaries.<ref name=cdt>Marking each verse number therein as a hyperlink to the corresponding verse.</ref> In Psalms, these occur before the canonical Psalm title.
 
* Add xrefs and notes to NT.
 
* Add xrefs and notes to NT.
 
* Add xrefs to OT.<ref>References to DC books should include the attribute <code>editions="KJVA"</code> such that these can be filtered out when making the KJV module without the Apocrypha.</ref>
 
* Add xrefs to OT.<ref>References to DC books should include the attribute <code>editions="KJVA"</code> such that these can be filtered out when making the KJV module without the Apocrypha.</ref>
  
 
''Tentative suggestions:''
 
''Tentative suggestions:''
* Add pronunciation help, e.g. for proper names or to avoid ambiguity for text to speech engines.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part-of-speech_tagging Part-of-speech tagging] can help to distinguish (e.g.) "lives" as a verb from "lives" as a plural noun.</ref>
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* Add pronunciation help, e.g. for proper names or to avoid ambiguity for text to speech engines.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Part-of-speech_tagging Part-of-speech tagging] can also help to distinguish (e.g.) "lives" as a verb from "lives" as a plural noun.</ref>
 
* Add column breaks and page breaks.<ref>Tying to the dead-tree edition. There were no page numbers in the Blayney 1769 Oxford Edition.</ref> These would be '''milestone''' elements with either type="column" or type="pb".
 
* Add column breaks and page breaks.<ref>Tying to the dead-tree edition. There were no page numbers in the Blayney 1769 Oxford Edition.</ref> These would be '''milestone''' elements with either type="column" or type="pb".
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* Insert a soft hyphen (U+00AD) into every polysyllabic word that might be split at line-wrap when the module font is large relative to screen or window width.<ref>This set would include all words that were printed with a line-end hyphen in the two-column Blayney edition, but need not be restricted to that set.</ref>
 
* Add [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ussher James Ussher's] chronology (found at the top of page margins) as note to chapter starts (probably in first verse or verse 0.)<ref>Some chapters change the year part way through (e.g. Gen.36).</ref>
 
* Add [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ussher James Ussher's] chronology (found at the top of page margins) as note to chapter starts (probably in first verse or verse 0.)<ref>Some chapters change the year part way through (e.g. Gen.36).</ref>
* Split KJV into KJV and AV where AV is an orthographic representation of the 1769 KJV. E.g. long s, ae, oe, fl, ffl, ....
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* Split KJV into KJV and AV where AV is an orthographic representation of the 1769 KJV.<ref>The existing module already uses the letters Æ and æ.</ref><BR>i.e. with letters<ref>See, e.g. [https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2006/06/rules-for-long-s.html ''The Rules for Long S''] by Andrew West, 2006</ref>: long ſ and ligatures: œ, ff, fi, , , , , st …
  
 
'''Notes:'''
 
'''Notes:'''
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* Successfully rebuilt the KJVA module from two XML files (KJV & KJVDC) using the augment flag in <code>osis2mod</code> for the latter.
 
* Successfully rebuilt the KJVA module from two XML files (KJV & KJVDC) using the augment flag in <code>osis2mod</code> for the latter.
 
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* Correct the '''Cambridge''' spellings to '''Oxford''' spellings in accordance with the Blayney text.<ref>Analysis is well underway. Consult [[User:David Haslam|David]] for details.</ref>
 
* Audit DC books text and markup. Look especially for added words printed in italics.<ref>There are only 36 instances in the DC books that use the '''transChange''' element.</ref><ref>In the original KJV 1611 words added were printed in smaller Roman type to contrast with the normal text in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter Gothic type].</ref><ref>Examples: "blessed is" (Wis.3.14); "to take him away," (Wis.4.14); "aright" (Wis.8.8); "the fruit of" (Wis.10.10); "As namely" (Wis.19.7); "Sodomites" (Wis.19.14).</ref>
 
* Audit DC books text and markup. Look especially for added words printed in italics.<ref>There are only 36 instances in the DC books that use the '''transChange''' element.</ref><ref>In the original KJV 1611 words added were printed in smaller Roman type to contrast with the normal text in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter Gothic type].</ref><ref>Examples: "blessed is" (Wis.3.14); "to take him away," (Wis.4.14); "aright" (Wis.8.8); "the fruit of" (Wis.10.10); "As namely" (Wis.19.7); "Sodomites" (Wis.19.14).</ref>
 
* Check a printed edition for any Pilcrows and add them if found.<ref>KJV 1611 had Pilcrows in 1Esd.2.8, 3.13, 4.13, 8.22,25; 2Esd.6.11; 1Macc.6.43,48, 9.23</ref>
 
* Check a printed edition for any Pilcrows and add them if found.<ref>KJV 1611 had Pilcrows in 1Esd.2.8, 3.13, 4.13, 8.22,25; 2Esd.6.11; 1Macc.6.43,48, 9.23</ref>
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| Improved OSIS markup. Minor textual changes to notes and titles.
 
| Improved OSIS markup. Minor textual changes to notes and titles.
 
Details: (''with progress marker'')
 
Details: (''with progress marker'')
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* Made '''canonical''' the first attribute in '''div''' & '''title''' elements. They line up better!
 
* Made '''canonical''' the first attribute in '''div''' & '''title''' elements. They line up better!
 
* Marked up the '''title''' element for each chapter & psalm to to match the Blayney edition.
 
* Marked up the '''title''' element for each chapter & psalm to to match the Blayney edition.
* Used Roman numerals for chapter & psalm numbers.
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* Used '''Roman numerals''' for chapter & psalm numbers.
 
* Updated Strong's numbers and lemma.TR to the latest TR from Maurice Robinson.<ref>As a side benefit, update CrossWire's TR module to match.</ref>
 
* Updated Strong's numbers and lemma.TR to the latest TR from Maurice Robinson.<ref>As a side benefit, update CrossWire's TR module to match.</ref>
 
* Updated Words of Christ (red letter markup) to match Louis Klopsch's 1901 edition.
 
* Updated Words of Christ (red letter markup) to match Louis Klopsch's 1901 edition.
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* Moved 47 notes from Psalms verse 1 to the canonical '''title''' element.
 
* Moved 47 notes from Psalms verse 1 to the canonical '''title''' element.
 
* Minor corrections to two Psalm titles.
 
* Minor corrections to two Psalm titles.
* Added '''osisRef''' to '''catchWord''', using the '''@s''' grain operator (for now at least, mainly for single keywords).
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* Updated the '''osisID''' for each canonical Psalm title.
* Added file history in the OSIS header using the '''revisionDesc''' element (done for KJV 2.0 to 2.9 so far).<ref>Excluding details of conf file updates.</ref>
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* Added '''osisRef''' to each '''catchWord''' element in the study '''note'''s, using the '''@s''' fine-grain operator.
* Updated conf file: Added Feature=GreekParse and Feature=HebrewParse.
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* Add '''osisID''' & '''n''' attributes to each '''note''' element.
* Inserted the comma missing in 11 verses. ''See talk page for full details''.
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* Added file history in the OSIS header using the '''revisionDesc''' element (for '''KJV 2.0''' to '''2.10''').<ref>Excludes details of conf file updates.</ref>
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* Updated conf file: Added '''Feature=GreekParse''' and '''Feature=HebrewParse'''.
 
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* Edit the '''osisID''' for each canonical Psalm title.
 
* Add '''osisID''' & '''n''' attributes to each '''note''' element.
 
 
* Add some few notes missing from the OT (less than 22).
 
* Add some few notes missing from the OT (less than 22).
* Identify and fix the notes for which the catchWord text doesn't properly match the verse text (e.g. Job 8:20).<ref>[[User:Dmsmith/KJV_2.6#Unmatched catchWord text, 2.10 (if possible)]]</ref>
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* Identify and fix the notes for which the '''catchWord''' text doesn't properly match the verse text (e.g. '''Job.8.20''').<ref>[[User:Dmsmith/KJV_2.6#Unmatched catchWord text, 2.10 (if possible)]]</ref>
* Check the notes order for verses with multiple notes.<ref>Not required if we move each note to before its catchWord text.</ref>
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* Check the notes order for verses with multiple notes.<ref>Not required if we move each note to before its '''catchWord''' text.</ref>
 
* Review notes not found in the 1611 by comparison with the list from SB.
 
* Review notes not found in the 1611 by comparison with the list from SB.
 
* Review and further update conf file where required.
 
* Review and further update conf file where required.
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'''Note:'''
 
'''Note:'''
 
<references />
 
<references />
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==Errata==
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Use this section to record any reported or discovered errors for either KJV or KJVA module.
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===Textual===
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* '''Exodus 17:15''' has "Jehovah–nissi" but Blayney has "JEHOVAH–nissi" (all caps &ndash; not small-caps).<ref>Albeit "Jehovah–jireh" in '''Genesis 22:14''' and "Jehovah–shalom" in '''Judges 6:24''' are both with title case in Blayney.</ref> [[User:David Haslam|David Haslam]] ([[User talk:David Haslam|talk]])
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* '''1 John 2:23''' has "''(but)''" whereas Blayney has "[''but'']" though the brackets are not with italics! [[User:David Haslam|David Haslam]] ([[User talk:David Haslam|talk]])
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* '''Judith 10:1''' Now after that she had ceased to cry unto the God of Israel, and '''bad''' made an end of all these words.<BR>The highlighted word should be 'had'. [[User:David Haslam|David Haslam]] ([[User talk:David Haslam|talk]])
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* '''Luke 16:9''' "habitations" &ndash; should be G3588 (not G3688). [[User:David Haslam|David Haslam]] ([[User talk:David Haslam|talk]])
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== See also ==
 
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* [[Help:Contents#Modules|Reporting module issues]]
 
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* [[CrossWire KJVA|English: KJVA]] module &ndash; KJV with Apocrypha
 
 
* [[User:David Haslam/Benjamin Blayney's 1769 KJV|Benjamin Blayney's 1769 KJV]] &ndash; [[User:David Haslam|David Haslam]] ([[User talk:David Haslam|talk]])'s user page
 
* [[User:David Haslam/Benjamin Blayney's 1769 KJV|Benjamin Blayney's 1769 KJV]] &ndash; [[User:David Haslam|David Haslam]] ([[User talk:David Haslam|talk]])'s user page
 
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* [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/745260506 The holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: Translated out of The Original Tongues: And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised : By His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to be read in Churches.] &ndash; '''Benjamin Blayney 1769 Oxford Edition''' available as eBook via OCLC '''WorldCat''', can be ordered from participating libraries.
 
* [http://www.crossway.org/blog/2006/03/red-letter-origin/ Origin of Red-Letter Bibles] &ndash; CrossWay blog,  March 23, 2006. Somewhat more informative than the Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_letter_edition page].
 
* [http://www.crossway.org/blog/2006/03/red-letter-origin/ Origin of Red-Letter Bibles] &ndash; CrossWay blog,  March 23, 2006. Somewhat more informative than the Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_letter_edition page].
 
* [http://books.google.co.uk/books?vid=BL:A0017123081&hl=en Fenwick, George (1759), ''Thoughts on the Hebrew titles of the Psalms : and on some of those in the Septuagint, endeavouring to discover the meaning, and point out the use of them'']
 
* [http://books.google.co.uk/books?vid=BL:A0017123081&hl=en Fenwick, George (1759), ''Thoughts on the Hebrew titles of the Psalms : and on some of those in the Septuagint, endeavouring to discover the meaning, and point out the use of them'']
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* [https://wayback.archive.org/web/20150122023721/http://www.contendingfortruth.com/wp-content/uploads/KJV-Differences-Cambridge-Oxford-Text.pdf Differences Between The Cambridge and Oxford King James Bibles] &ndash; now on Internet Archive only (retrieved 2017-03-13).
 
* [https://wayback.archive.org/web/20150122023721/http://www.contendingfortruth.com/wp-content/uploads/KJV-Differences-Cambridge-Oxford-Text.pdf Differences Between The Cambridge and Oxford King James Bibles] &ndash; now on Internet Archive only (retrieved 2017-03-13).
 
* The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Cambridge_Paragraph_Bible New Cambridge Paragraph Bible]
 
* The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Cambridge_Paragraph_Bible New Cambridge Paragraph Bible]
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* [https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Books/Textual-History-King-James-Bible-David-Norton/0521771005/ A Textual History of the King James Bible] &ndash; David Norton (2005)
 
* [http://www.semanticbible.com/ntn/ntn-overview.html New Testament Names: a Semantic Knowledge Base]
 
* [http://www.semanticbible.com/ntn/ntn-overview.html New Testament Names: a Semantic Knowledge Base]
 
* [http://www.complete-bible-genealogy.com/ Complete Bible Genealogy - Jesus family tree - Kings of Judah and Israel]
 
* [http://www.complete-bible-genealogy.com/ Complete Bible Genealogy - Jesus family tree - Kings of Judah and Israel]
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* [https://blog.logos.com/2006/03/in_search_of_the_king_james_ve_1/ In search of the King James Version]
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* [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James) Bible (King James)] &ndash; on WikiSource &ndash; Information about this edition<ref>Benjamin Blayney, ed., Holy Bible: Standard Text, Oxford University Press, 1769. Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, printers to the University.</ref>
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Revision as of 18:32, 12 June 2020

This page is a work in progress.

Introduction

The KJV module was one of the earliest to be released and distributed by CrossWire after The SWORD Project was launched. It remains one of the most frequently downloaded modules in all our repositories.

The KJV module text is based substantially on the 1769 Oxford Edition (the basis for all modern editions), not the original 1611 first edition. See our FAQ.

This is the only module maintained by CrossWire volunteers. It is marked up in OSIS XML. All other modules are based on source text from external providers.

Provenance and Acknowledgements

Strong's numbers provide a useful means for looking up the exact original language word in a lexicon that is keyed to Strong's Concordance.

Morphology data provides a means to understand the structure of the original language's morphemes and other linguistic units.

Special thanks to the volunteers at Bible Foundation for keying the Hebrew/English data and of Project KJV2003 for working toward the completion of synchronizing the English phrases to the Stephanus Textus Receptus, and to Dr. Maurice A. Robinson for providing the base Greek text with Strong's and Morphology.

We are also appreciative of formatting markup that was provided by Michael Paul Johnson.

Their time and generosity to contribute such for the free use of the Body of Christ is a great blessing and this derivitive work could not have been possible without these efforts of so many individuals. It is in this spirit that we in turn offer the KJV2003 Project text and its successors freely for any purpose.

We are also appreciative for the feedback reports over the years from several individuals that have enabled us to fix minor text and markup issues by comparison with the reference texts.

Reference Text

The CrossWire KJV is meant to be the faithful e-text edition[1] of Benjamin Blayney's 1769 Oxford edition of the KJV[2] (hereafter called 1769 KJV). To that end we required it to be diligently checked against a reference standard for accuracy. Finding a reference text was a daunting task. What is known today as the KJV has been changed on a regular basis since it's first publication to today.[3] Some of these changes are well known; others are quietly done by publishers.

There also was a need to have a reference for red-letter text. This too varied from one modern KJV to another.

See also User:Dmsmith/KJV_2.6#Reference_text_policy.

Need for a reference text

Ideally, the reference standard would be a faithful electronic copy of 1769 KJV. When CrossWire's KJV2006 Project was started there was no such text either as a facsimile or eText. In lieu of that, finding an acceptable text was needed to arbitrate the claims that "my KJV is right and it is different from what you have."

We compared our text with two independent 1769 KJV eTexts (CCEL and InterLeaf). All of the other eTexts we found seemed to be one of these three. Those comparisons yielded differences that needed to be verified in an independent text. Thus the need for *a* dead tree text. While working on the KJV2006 release, several websites that were dedicated to producing a "true" text were abandoned with chagrin that it is not a doable task apart from having a facsimile of the 1769 KJV, which was not known.

One criteria was finding a text that the KJV-only adherents felt was more accurate 1769 KJV text. Using various listings of differences between current and "true", dozens of dead tree texts in several stores were examined. Also, it was important to avoid copyright claims based upon minor changes in the text. Both combined to come up with the Public Domain Old Scofield Study Bible[4]. The Biblical text was thought to be one of the most faithful copies of the 1769 Oxford Edition.[5] It was published in 1917, which was important in terms of USA copyright law. It was also considered to be a faithful red-letter text.

We have obtained a hard copy facsimile of the "Blayney" 1769 KJV text. This will be the reference text going forward.

Need for a reference red-letter text

Red-Letter text is a fairly recent addition to the 1769 KJV. In 1899, Louis Klopsch proposed rendering the words of Christ in red letters. His work was published in 1901. Recently (2016-01-28), we've obtained Louis Klopsch's 1901 edition of the KJV and will use that as the future reference for red-letter text.

Notes:

  1. With added features suited to the digital age we live in.
  2. Excluding the Apocrypha.
  3. Refer to F H A Scrivener and to the New Cambridge Paragraph Bible.
  4. The use of the Scofield in no way implies our endorsement of the extensive non-canonical study notes therein.
  5. i.e. Even by those in the KJV Only movement.

Chosen Texts

The public domain Old Scofield Study Bible was used for version 2.3 to 2.10 for text and for version 2.3 to 2.9 for red-letter markup.

The Louis Klopsch 1901 KJV is used for red-letter markup for 2.10 and later.

The 1769 KJV facsimile is used for text, front-matter, notes, cross-references, titles, .... for versions after 2.11.
The following 4 volumes are print on demand ECCO editions[1] published by Gale.

  • The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Volume 1 of 4, ISBN-13: 9781171169826
  • The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Volume 2 of 4, ISBN-13: 9781171169819
  • The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments: Volume 3 of 4, ISBN-13: 9781171169802
  • The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Volume 4 of 4, ISBN-13: 9781171169796
    Translated Out of the Original Greek: And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised, by His Majesty's Special Command. Appointed to by Read in Churches.

A scanned copy of the 1769 KJV[2] is also available at http://www.originalbibles.com/1769-king-james-bible-benjamin-blayney/

Notes:

  1. These "high quality" facsimile reprints contain numerous words with dotless letter ı – we must therefore assume that the publisher applied some undeclared clean-up process to the page scans to remove "blemishes" that has had the unfortunate effect of changing dotted i to dotless ı in many words.
  2. Currently this is only for the books Genesis to Jeremiah.

Copyright

Any copyright that might be obtained for this effort is held by the CrossWire Bible Society © 2003-2017 and the CrossWire Bible Society hereby grants a general public license to use this text for any purpose.

CrossWire's KJV module is an amalgamation of different source material. Each has its own copyright or is in the public domain.

  • The actual text validated against 2 independent eTexts and found differences against our hard-copy reference for such.
  • The Red Letter markup of the words of Christ have been validated against our hard-copy reference for such.
  • The Strong's numbers in the OT are from The Bible Foundation.
  • The Strong's numbers in the NT are from Dr Maurice A. Robinson, Senior Professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in North Carolina.
  • The OSIS XML markup is a unique effort that began with our KJV2003 project – Copyright © 2003-2017 The CrossWire Bible Society.
  • The tagging of Strong's numbers to the NT text is a unique effort of our KJV2003 project – Copyright © 2003-2017 The CrossWire Bible Society.

Crown copyright, Letters Patent and the KJV

In the United Kingdom, the text of the Authorized King James Version of the Bible is protected by royal prerogative. "There is a small class of materials where the Crown claims the right to control reproduction outside normal copyright law due to Letters Patent issued under the royal prerogative. This material includes the King James Bible, and the Book of Common Prayer." See Crown copyright.

In most of the world, the Authorized Version has passed out of copyright and is freely reproduced. In the United Kingdom, the British Crown restricts production of the Authorized Version per transitional exemptions from the Copyright Act 1775 (which implemented this clause) in the Copyright, Designs and patents Act 1988 (Schedule I, section 13(1)), which expire in 2039. Cambridge University Press[1], Oxford University Press, HarperCollins and the Queen's Printers have the right to produce the Authorized Version. See King James Bible.

The British & Foreign Bible Society (based in the UK) respects this copyright status, although many American organisations do not respect it and treat it wrongly as if it were public domain. In reality, the many editions of the KJV used in the USA are a revision of the text made by the American Bible Society and the rights for this revision are still held by ABS.

Permission to publish the KJV in England and Wales can be obtained by following the guidance in A Brief Guide to Liturgical Copyright, third edition (RTF file); permission to publish in Scotland requires contacting the Scottish Bible Board. All signatories to the International Copyright Treaty are obliged to recognize each other's copyrights, so, technically speaking, the KJV is copyrighted throughout the world. However, it is unlikely that any prosecution under copyright law would succeed outside the UK.

Note:

  1. Cambridge University Press wrote to Go Bible several years ago, acting as agents of Crown copyright. Their request was simple and straightforward, viz., that we include a clear statement about Crown copyright for the KJV. After we did that, and informed them, they seem to have been satisfied.

Distribution License

Currently the files kjv.conf and kjva.conf contain the following key:

DistributionLicense=General public license for distribution for any purpose

This form of words does not match any of the defined options listed in Copyright & Licensing related elements. We should change this to one of the specified items.

Margin Notes

In a study of the marginal notes in the 1611 KJV, Scrivener[1] counted:

  • 6637 in the OT
  • 1018 in the Apocrypha
  • 0767 in the NT
  • 8422 in total

Of the 767 notes in the NT, 35 are explanatory notes or brief ex­positions, 582 give alternative translations, 112 give a more literal ren­dering of the Greek than the translators judged suitable for the text, and 37 give readings of different manuscripts.

The KJV module (2.10 wip) currently has the following study notes:

  • 6959 in the OT of which a few are duplicates on the same "page" for similar verses.[2]

Literatura Bautista have an article entitled An exhaustive listing of the marginal notes of the 1611 edition of the King James Bible. This is a very useful resource for checking our module and comparing with the 1769 Reference Text. David Haslam has created an Excel worksheet for this purpose. We have identified up to 22 places where an OT note may be missing from the KJV module.

Notes:

  1. Scrivener, F. H. A. ,The Authorized Edition of the English Bible, p. 56.
  2. Performing a sort operation to remove all duplicates reduces the total by 617 to 6342, though some of those removed would not be close to each other before the sort.

Cross references

The KJV module currently lacks any cross-references, apart from one or two that happen to be included in the margin notes. There were extensive cross-references in the 1611 first edition, and the same quantity or more in the 1769 Oxford edition. Whereas margin notes used superscripted numerical tags, the cross-references generally used lowercase letters tags, likewise superscripted and usually in italics.

Road Map

First we must decide how to markup or correct the observed differences between the present text and the Blayney 1769 Oxford edition.[1]

List briefly the further enhancements we would like to make in the future beyond the next release.

KJV module:

  • Add Greek equivalent to Strong's numbers. (3.1)[2]
  • Correct the Cambridge spellings to Oxford spellings in accordance with the Blayney text.[3]
  • Mark all natural numbers with the proposed new number element; with the numerical value recorded in the n attribute.
  • Mark all proper names with the name element; with type person, geographic, nonhuman, holiday, ritual, etc.[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]
  • Use the foreign element to mark text that was transliterated from (e.g.) Aramaic to Greek in the NT.
  • Also tag the Aramaic personal and place names in the NT. See [1].
  • Use the inscription element to mark text that reports a written inscription.
  • Use the q element to mark all other quotations, making use of a suitable set of who attribute values to identify each speaker.[13][14]
  • Mark the 'salutation text' in the Epistles with the salute element?
  • Mark the 'benedictions' in the Epistles with the seg element and type benediction?
  • Mark the 'sign off text' in the Epistles with the signed element?
  • Mark the closing "Amen." in NT books with the closer element?[15]
  • Mark each 'refrain' in Deut 27:15-25 using the seg element and type refrain?[16][17][18]
  • Mark each 'refrain' in Psalm 136 using the same method.[19][20]
  • Mark the 'canonical colophon' at the end of Job 31:40[21]
  • Mark the 'canonical colophon' in Psalms 72:20[22]
  • Mark the 'canonical colophon' at the end of Habakkuk 3:19[23]

Further thoughts based upon having the Blayney edition:

  • Audit OT notes and make any necessary corrections (e.g. Psalm 119:24,42).
  • Check notes text for added words not in italics (e.g. Job 31:35).[24]
  • Move each note element to the start of its "catch word" in the verse (or title) text.[25]
  • Add the special note symbols († ‖ ⁕) from Blayney.[26]
  • Add front-matter: dedicatory and preface, OT intro, NT intro, ....
  • Add any end titles. e.g. The End of the /PROPHETS/. (after Malachi).
  • Add NT chapter summaries.[27]
  • Add OT chapter summaries.[27] In Psalms, these occur before the canonical Psalm title.
  • Add xrefs and notes to NT.
  • Add xrefs to OT.[28]

Tentative suggestions:

  • Add pronunciation help, e.g. for proper names or to avoid ambiguity for text to speech engines.[29]
  • Add column breaks and page breaks.[30] These would be milestone elements with either type="column" or type="pb".
  • Insert a soft hyphen (U+00AD) into every polysyllabic word that might be split at line-wrap when the module font is large relative to screen or window width.[31]
  • Add James Ussher's chronology (found at the top of page margins) as note to chapter starts (probably in first verse or verse 0.)[32]
  • Split KJV into KJV and AV where AV is an orthographic representation of the 1769 KJV.[33]
    i.e. with letters[34]: long ſ and ligatures: œ, ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl, ſt, st …

Notes:

Details to be reviewed in the light of proposed new OSIS features.
  1. Particularly what we should do with regard to spelling issues, as noted in David's user page Benjamin Blayney's 1769 KJV.
  2. The next release after version 2.10 will jump straight to 3.1 - missing out 3.0 - as by then, the KJVA module will be made from the same XML file. KJVA is currently version 3.0.1
  3. Analysis is well underway. Consult David for details.
  4. These proposed name types are not yet finalised. See also Talk:OSIS 211 CR#Classifying_names_in_the_Bible.
  5. For name type="person", it would be useful to define a new OSIS attribute sex="male" or sex="female".
  6. Spelling variants could be associated by means of the regular attribute (e.g. Cedron for Kidron).
  7. Consider using type="x-book" for the names of objects such as 'the book of Jasher'. See Non-canonical books referenced in the Bible.
  8. Suggest use type value x-people-group for names such as 'Hittites', and x-people-group-member for the corresponding singular 'Hittite'.
  9. Suggest use type="x-month" and n="1" to n="13" for the names of the months in the Hebrew calendar.
  10. Suggest include subType="x-possessive" or subType="x-plural". Also to make use of the attribute regular where this is appropriate.
  11. Also need to identify several multi-word names in which a good part of the name is not capitalised.
  12. Names within study notes should also be marked with the name element.
  13. Currently the module only uses <q who="Jesus">...</q> to tag the words of Christ.
  14. The level attribute could be added to every quotation to reflect the nesting of quoted speech.
  15. For some books, the closer element might enclose more than the word "Amen." Also, 3 John doesn't end with "Amen."
  16. i.e. "And all the people shall say, Amen."
  17. This would require an addition to our custom OSIS schema.
  18. Poetry line element l permits type="refrain", but the KJV doesn't use poetry lines.
  19. i.e. "for his mercy endureth for ever."
  20. Likewise for a few other similar verses where this wording is found.
  21. i.e. "The words of Job are ended."
  22. i.e. "The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended."
  23. i.e. "To the chief singer on my stringed instruments."
  24. Such words should be wrapped in the transChange element. The SWORD engine will need to support the "italics inversion" rule.
  25. Currently, all the notes are at the end of the verse. An intermediate step would be to move all notes to the start of the verse.
  26. In Blayney, these note symbols are normal case rather than superscript. There is also a space before the symbol as well as after.
  27. 27.0 27.1 Marking each verse number therein as a hyperlink to the corresponding verse.
  28. References to DC books should include the attribute editions="KJVA" such that these can be filtered out when making the KJV module without the Apocrypha.
  29. Part-of-speech tagging can also help to distinguish (e.g.) "lives" as a verb from "lives" as a plural noun.
  30. Tying to the dead-tree edition. There were no page numbers in the Blayney 1769 Oxford Edition.
  31. This set would include all words that were printed with a line-end hyphen in the two-column Blayney edition, but need not be restricted to that set.
  32. Some chapters change the year part way through (e.g. Gen.36).
  33. The existing module already uses the letters Æ and æ.
  34. See, e.g. The Rules for Long S by Andrew West, 2006

KJVA module:

KJVA is currently not being rebuilt when KJV is updated. It should be.
  • Create the OSIS XML file for just the DC (deuterocanonical) books. Done. David Haslam
  • Add the two prologues to Sirach: one "made by an uncertain Author"; the other "of the Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach."
  • Add bookGroup title and bookGroup end title.
  • Add the global attribute editions="KJVA" to the main bookGroup div element.
  • Update the book main titles to match those in 1769 KJV.[1]
  • Remove the title type attribute of the Epistle of Jeremy in Baruch 6.
  • Move the main title for EsthAdd to chapter 10 and remove the type attribute.
  • Insert a horizontal ellipsis in the 12 empty verses before EsthAdd.10.4[2]
  • Add chapter labels as per 1769 KJV. Use Roman numerals for chapter numbers.
  • Minor corrections to 1Esd.1.42, 1Esd.4.6, 1Esd.4.38, 1Esd.6.1, 1Esd.6.17, 2Esd.1.1, 2Esd.6.23, 2Esd.9.17, 2Esd.9.34, Tob.3.7, Tob.3.10, Tob.6.6, Jdt.7.20, Jdt.16.12, Wis.2.22, Wis.8.7, Wis.14.24, Wis.18.24, Sir.8.1, Sir.14.20, Sir.20.32, Sir.31.26, Sir.33.16, Sir.35.2, Sir.45.10, Sir.46.18, Sir.51.20, Bar.3.2, Bar.6.15, Bar.6.72, PrAzar.1.46, PrMan.1.1, 1Macc.2.41, 1Macc.8.16, 1Macc.9.19, 1Macc.10.88, 1Macc.11.9, 1Macc.14.7, 2Macc.4.1, 2Macc.7.39, 2Macc.14.8, 2Macc.10.15, 2Macc.14.14, 2Macc.15.10
  • Marked all proper names with the name element, though without any attributes. Bipolar names unified.
  • Successfully rebuilt the KJVA module from two XML files (KJV & KJVDC) using the augment flag in osis2mod for the latter.

  • Correct the Cambridge spellings to Oxford spellings in accordance with the Blayney text.[3]
  • Audit DC books text and markup. Look especially for added words printed in italics.[4][5][6]
  • Check a printed edition for any Pilcrows and add them if found.[7]
  • Check the DC books in the 1611 KJV for any extra paragraphs without a pilcrow.[8]
  • Add DC study notes. There are none in the existing module!
  • Add DC chapter descriptions. Restore pilcrows corresponding to verses tagged therein.[9]
  • Add DC xrefs. cf. Blayney's Bible included DC xrefs in the PC (protocanonical) OT & NT books.
  • Mark each 'refrain' in PrAzar.1.35-68 (aka the Benedicite) using the seg element and type refrain?[10][11]

Notes:

  1. Two books (Susanna & Bel) had text between the title and chapter 1.
  2. This avoids navigation issues in front-ends such as Xiphos.
  3. Analysis is well underway. Consult David for details.
  4. There are only 36 instances in the DC books that use the transChange element.
  5. In the original KJV 1611 words added were printed in smaller Roman type to contrast with the normal text in Gothic type.
  6. Examples: "blessed is" (Wis.3.14); "to take him away," (Wis.4.14); "aright" (Wis.8.8); "the fruit of" (Wis.10.10); "As namely" (Wis.19.7); "Sodomites" (Wis.19.14).
  7. KJV 1611 had Pilcrows in 1Esd.2.8, 3.13, 4.13, 8.22,25; 2Esd.6.11; 1Macc.6.43,48, 9.23
  8. These could be marked as milestone type="x-extra-p".
  9. Verse numbers in these descriptions rarely coincide with a Pilcrow at the start of the verse.
  10. i.e. "praise and exalt him above all for ever"
  11. NB. The final punctuation mark in each line of the Benedicite varies between comma and full-stop.

History

Text Development Stages

From the time the KJV module was first released, text and markup development has been done in several major stages:

  • The original KJV2003 Project – user page no longer exists
  • The KJV2006 Project
  • The KJV2011 Effort
  • The KJV 2.6 Effort – begun in 2013 and ongoing...

Module Versions

While the KJV was a module at CrossWire prior to version 2.0, this is the earliest for which dates can be determined.
Dates prior to version 2.3 are best estimates. (For changes in versions 1.x, refer to the file kjv.conf)
The revision from 2.6 onward is a link to the released source.

Revision Date Description
2.10 Being prepared Improved OSIS markup. Minor textual changes to notes and titles.

Details: (with progress marker)

  • Updated our custom OSIS schema to properly validate type values in rdg element, etc.
  • Corrected rdg attribute type="alternative" (2.9) to "alternate".
  • Moved sID before osisID in each verse start element.
  • Moved morph to after lemma in each w element (in the OT).[1]
  • Added a final full-stop to all notes previously lacking one.
  • Fixed the punctuation after a few instances of " etc".
  • Marked all the abbreviations for "etc.", "LXX", "Gr." & "Heb." found in notes using the abbr element.
  • Added a space after the ¶ in the milestone marker.
  • Added the hitherto missing ¶ in NT books: Romans—Revelation.
  • Changed red ¶ to black (i.e. within text marked as "words of Jesus")
  • Made minor corrections to a few notes.
  • Added the comma after ": or" and ": that is" that was missing from some notes.
  • Improved markup for colophon div in each Pauline epistle.
  • Added osisID to the canonical Psalm titles.
  • Added bookGroup div elements for OT & NT.
  • Added majorSection div elements for the five books in the Psalter (but without titles)
  • Removed the redundant chapterTitle attribute from the chapter element.
  • Made canonical the first attribute in div & title elements. They line up better!
  • Marked up the title element for each chapter & psalm to to match the Blayney edition.
  • Used Roman numerals for chapter & psalm numbers.
  • Updated Strong's numbers and lemma.TR to the latest TR from Maurice Robinson.[2]
  • Updated Words of Christ (red letter markup) to match Louis Klopsch's 1901 edition.
  • Updated the 66 book titles to match those in the Blayney edition (including a final full-stop).
  • Moved 47 notes from Psalms verse 1 to the canonical title element.
  • Minor corrections to two Psalm titles.
  • Updated the osisID for each canonical Psalm title.
  • Added osisRef to each catchWord element in the study notes, using the @s fine-grain operator.
  • Add osisID & n attributes to each note element.
  • Added file history in the OSIS header using the revisionDesc element (for KJV 2.0 to 2.10).[3]
  • Updated conf file: Added Feature=GreekParse and Feature=HebrewParse.

  • Add some few notes missing from the OT (less than 22).
  • Identify and fix the notes for which the catchWord text doesn't properly match the verse text (e.g. Job.8.20).[4]
  • Check the notes order for verses with multiple notes.[5]
  • Review notes not found in the 1611 by comparison with the list from SB.
  • Review and further update conf file where required.
2.9 2016-01-21 Improved OSIS markup.

Details:

  • Added catchWord and reading (rdg) markup to notes.
  • Improved markup placement for Selah in 13 places.
2.8 2015-12-20 Improved OSIS markup.

Details:

  • Moved Ps 119 acrostic titles before verse number.
  • Changed double spaces to a single space.
  • Changed "Heb " to "Heb. " in notes.
  • Added Feature=NoParagraphs.
2.7 2015-08-09 Fixed bugs preventing the display of some Strong's Numbers in the Old Testament.
Improved markup of Strong's numbers in 2 Cor 15.
2.6.1 2014-02-15 Added GlobalOptionFilter for OSISLemma
2.6 2013-10-05 Fixed bugs. Added Greek from TR.
2.5 2013-02-02 Fixed bugs. See: KJV2011

Details:

  • Fixed markup of added words.
  • Fixed more Words of Christ markup.
  • Fixed punctuation, apostrophes, dashes and placement of spaces.
  • Fixed the markup of a word that was split into two parts.
  • Other bug fixes.
2.4 2009-05-29 Fixed bugs. Updated red-letter markup of Words of Christ.
2.3 2006-10-09 Fixed bugs. See: Project KJV2006

Goals:

  • Faithful representation of the KJV.
  • Each book of the Bible is well-formed xml.
  • Each book of the Bible is valid OSIS xml according to the 2.1.1 schema.
  • The markup conforms to OSIS best practices as mentioned on the Sword-devel mailing list and the OSIS 2.1.1 user's manual
  • Strong's markup normalized.

Details:

  • The xml is now well-formed.
  • The xml is now valid OSIS 2.1.1
  • Strong's numbers have been normalized.
  • Fixed the missing 's in the OT
  • Moved whitespace and punctuation to a more sensible location and fixed whitespace problems.
  • Positioned the pilcrow symbol ¶ at the start of verses.
  • Validated against Old Scofield Study Bible for all differences found by comparing against
(a) the KJV encoded by Tim Lanfear for CCEL.
(b) the KJV encoded Interleaf Bible.
  • Fixed all existing titles and added missing ones.
  • Fixed paragraphing
  • Tagged all inscriptions
  • Fixed and tagged all divine names
  • Added xlit to w elements for the acrostic in Psalm 119
  • Hyphenated names
  • Fixed names with ligatures Æ and æ
  • Fixed a bug in osis2mod that incorrectly encoded the last verse of each book
  • Removed Strong's number H00 as it does not exist.
2.2 2004-07-25 Updated to 20040121 snapshot of KJV2003.
2.1 2003-06-24 Changed Old Testament to use OSIS tags, removing the last of the GBF markup.
Also updated to 20030624 snapshot of KJV2003. Compressed.
2.0 2003-01-08 Changed New Testament to use a snapshot of the KJV2003 Project

Note:

  1. The lemma attribute is the one that specifies Strong's numbers. This is merely to be consistent in both testaments.
  2. As a side benefit, update CrossWire's TR module to match.
  3. Excludes details of conf file updates.
  4. User:Dmsmith/KJV_2.6#Unmatched catchWord text, 2.10 (if possible)
  5. Not required if we move each note to before its catchWord text.

Errata

Use this section to record any reported or discovered errors for either KJV or KJVA module.

Textual

  • Exodus 17:15 has "Jehovah–nissi" but Blayney has "JEHOVAH–nissi" (all caps – not small-caps).[1] David Haslam (talk)
  • 1 John 2:23 has "(but)" whereas Blayney has "[but]" though the brackets are not with italics! David Haslam (talk)

KJVA

  • Judith 10:1 Now after that she had ceased to cry unto the God of Israel, and bad made an end of all these words.
    The highlighted word should be 'had'. David Haslam (talk)

Strong's numbers

Note:

  1. Albeit "Jehovah–jireh" in Genesis 22:14 and "Jehovah–shalom" in Judges 6:24 are both with title case in Blayney.

See also

Hebrew calendar

KJV words include the names of the months in the Hebrew calendar.

Biblical lists

This might be useful. There are other similar lists in the same category.

Notes:

  1. The OSIS User Manual has no defined markup for animals, plants and precious stones.
  2. For names and places, the name element with type="person" or "geographic" is already defined.
  3. The other defined name type attribute values are "holiday", "nonhuman", "ritual".
  4. These need to be extended. See Talk:OSIS 211 CR#Classifying_names_in_the_Bible.

External links

Note:

  1. Benjamin Blayney, ed., Holy Bible: Standard Text, Oxford University Press, 1769. Printed by T. Wright and W. Gill, printers to the University.