Alternate Versification/System Identification
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Overview
Here are some notes on identifying versification systems based on text (presence of verses, order of books, etc.). For now it will simply be some whiteboarding. Perhaps we can make a nice flowchart in time--and eventually adapt it into a v11n identifier script.
Contributors should feel free to add to the page, but don't make it pretty at the expense of easy editing.
O (OT), A (apocrypha), & N (NT) indicate possible testaments in each v11n.
Systems
Some identified versification systems include:
- KJV ON (aka English, Sword's default)
- KJVA OAN (above plus apocrypha)
- Leningrad O (that used by the (Westminster) Leningrad Codex)
- MT O (same as above, different book order)
- Original OAN (Tanakh plus LXX? apocrypha plus GNT, English book order)
- LXX OA
- Vulg OAN
- Luther OAN (Original, different book order)
- NRSV ON (English OT plus GNT)
- NRSVA OAN (English OT plus LXX? apocrypha plus GNT)
- GNT N (a component of other v11ns, not to be used as a separate v11n)
KJV
(ON) (aka English, Sword's default)
KJVA
(OAN) (above plus apocrypha)
Leningrad
(O)
For Hebrew Bibles, more specifically those based on the Leningrad Codex.
Book order is: Gen, Exod, Lev, Num, Deut, Josh, Judg, 1Sam, 2Sam, 1Kgs, 2Kgs, Isa, Jer, Ezek, Hos, Joel, Amos, Obad, Jonah, Mic, Nah, Hab, Zeph, Hag, Zech, Mal, 1Chr, 2Chr, Ps, Job, Prov, Ruth, Song, Eccl, Lam, Esth, Dan, Ezra, Neh
MT
(O)
Masoretic Text. For Hebrew Bibles and a few translations (e.g. the JPS translations into English). Books are ordered according to rabbinic tradition.
Book order is: Gen, Exod, Lev, Num, Deut, Josh, Judg, 1Sam, 2Sam, 1Kgs, 2Kgs, Isa, Jer, Ezek, Hos, Joel, Amos, Obad, Jonah, Mic, Nah, Hab, Zeph, Hag, Zech, Mal, Ps, Job, Prov, Ruth, Song, Eccl, Lam, Esth, Dan, Ezra, Neh, 1Chr, 2Chr
Malachi has 3 chapters.
Original
(OAN) (Tanakh plus LXX? apocrypha plus GNT, English book order)
This is not a valid v11n for module making.
LXX
(OA)
Though this consists of OT+Apocrypha, we will ship it along with the GNT v11n NT.
Vulg
(OAN)
Latin Vulgate. Malachi has 4 chapters.
Luther
(OAN)
Book order: Gen, Exod, Lev, Num, Deut, Josh, Judg, Ruth, 1Sam, 2Sam, 1Kgs, 2Kgs, 1Chr, 2Chr, Ezra, Neh, Esth, Job, Ps, Prov, Eccl, Song, Isa, Jer, Lam, Dan, Ezek, Hos, Joel, Amos, Obad, Jonah, Mic, Nah, Hab, Zeph, Hag, Zech, Mal, Jdt, Wis, Tob, Sir, Bar, 1Macc, 2Macc, AddEsth, Sus, Bel, PrAzar, PrMan, Matt, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Rom, 1Cor, 2Cor, Gal, Eph, Phil, Col, 1Thess, 2Thess, 1Tim, 2Tim, Titus, Phlm, Heb, Jas, 1Pet, 2Pet, 1John, 2John, 3John, Jude, Rev
German
NRSV
(ON) (English OT plus GNT)
NRSVA
(OAN) (English OT plus LXX? apocrypha plus GNT)
GNT
(N)
This will be a component of other v11ns, not to be used as a separate v11n.
Used in: NRSV(A), LXX, & Original v11ns
Book order: Matt, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Rom, 1Cor, 2Cor, Gal, Eph, Phil, Col, 1Thess, 2Thess, 1Tim, 2Tim, Titus, Phlm, Heb, Jas, 1Pet, 2Pet, 1John, 2John, 3John, Jude, Rev
Catholic
(OAN)
The v11n of many Catholic Bibles, for those Bibles with 10 chapters in Esther.
Catholic2
(OAN)
The v11n of many Catholic Bibles, for those Bibles with 16 chapters in Esther.
Orthodox
A v11n based on the LXX, but using a different book order and fewer books.
Synodal
(OAN)
The v11n of the Russian Synodal Bible and related Bibles. (Psalms includes Ps 151)
SynodalProt
The ParaText Synodal Protestant v11n as used by IBT for Bibles containing protocanonical books only.
