A silly question - number of pericopes in a translation or a book within that translation

MJ. Smith
MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 55,165
edited November 2024 in English Forum

Yes, I know this is as meaningless as the number of chapters and verses, but I need a fairly accurate count of the number of pericopes to spread material tied to pericopes across the year. How would you count the number of pericopes?

Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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  • Simon’s Brother
    Simon’s Brother Member Posts: 6,827 ✭✭✭

    Not at home so can’t test this out, but can you export the compare periscopes report to excel and cont the number of lines, potentially after some data cleanup? this tough is limites to where FL includes the pericope set you are interrated in working with for your lessons. For want your want to do this is quite a logicsl question.

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,216

    MJ. Smith said:

    ... I need a fairly accurate count of the number of pericopes to spread material tied to pericopes across the year. How would you count the number of pericopes?

    Create a Reading Plan based on Pericopes and daily readings. Then select a range and estimate pericopes based on the number of chapters e.g. 2x no. of chapters, and make that the number of Sessions for the Plan. I started with 260 sessions for Gen-Lev and noticed there were days with no readings, so I reduced that to 220 and there were still days with no readings. When you get no gaps you may have your number of pericopes, but a quick check may reveal multiple readings e.g. ones that span chapters or books, so work from your gaps. 210 sessions had 6 gaps, so I would say 204 pericopes (in ESV).

    It didn't take long to get 352 for Gen-Dt (ESV)  - 472 (NABRE)

    Dave
    ===

    Windows 11 & Android 13

  • Andrew Batishko
    Andrew Batishko Member, Community Manager, Logos Employee Posts: 5,529

    Personally I would create a quick script to extract the data directly from the dataset.

    ARA - 2887
    Basis - 1276
    BFC - 3180
    BFC - 2760
    BIMK - 2614
    Bruns - 2794
    Buber - 408
    COL - 1617
    CUV-SC - 889
    CUV-TC - 889
    DANCLV - 2179
    DKV 페리코페 - 1726
    EINHEIT - 2922
    ELB - 1903
    ESV - 2412
    Eusebian Canons - 1144
    Fijian Bible - 1162
    GN97 - 3453
    GNB - 3504
    GNTMAJ - 1122
    HCSB - 2742
    Hfa - 2707
    HNT - 691
    ISV - 3666
    ITB - 2304
    KRV 페리코페 - 2302
    LBLA - 2253
    LBT - 1917
    LEB - 2436
    LES - 1911
    LES(AT) - 49
    Logos - 3911
    LPB - 2727
    LS21 - 1658
    LUT84 - 2474
    Luther - 2593
    NABRE - 3041
    NASB2020 - 2238
    NASB95 - 2245
    NBG1951 - 2062
    NBLH - 2258
    NBS - 2766
    NBV - 1561
    NCTB 페리코페 - 2528
    NEG - 1853
    NeÜ - 2271
    NFC - 3049
    NGÜ - 1225
    NIRV - 2025
    NIV - 2082
    NIV84 - 2030
    NJB - 3439
    NKJV - 2787
    NKRV 페리코페 - 2299
    NLB - 2180
    NLGNB - 2154
    NLT - 2363
    NRSV - 3000
    NRSVCE - 2881
    NTLH - 2687
    NTV - 2194
    NVI - 2172
    Parashat - 105
    PDV - 3362
    RC - 1933
    RC1914 - 1922
    RCDN - 1920
    REB - 2021
    RVA - 2583
    RVR60 - 2093
    RVR95 - 2054
    Schlachter - 2302
    Semeur (2000) - 2274
    Semeur (2015) - 2275
    SILQED - 883
    SILQEH - 899
    SILTXA - 1156
    TB2010 - 2774
    TDYMALAYV - 2645
    TH-THBS1973 - 2219
    TLA - 2478
    TNIV - 2105
    TOB (2010) - 2787
    TPC91R - 847
    UBS4 - 850
    VPEE - 2654
    Zürcher - 2145
    가톨릭 페리코페 - 3317
    京委本(简体) - 3024
    当代译本修订版(简体) - 2060
    新漢語譯本新約(繁體) - 849
    新譯本(繁體) - 3321
    简体和合本修订版(神版) - 2608
    简体和合本神版 - 2585
    简体现代中文译本上帝版 - 2550
    简明圣经(简体) - 978
    簡明聖經(增訂版) - 978
    繁體台灣客語聖經 - 2601
    繁體和合本上帝版 - 2591
    繁體和合本修訂版(上帝版) - 2601
    繁體四福音書 - 464
    繁體現代中文譯本上帝版 - 2569

    Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer

  • Andrew Batishko
    Andrew Batishko Member, Community Manager, Logos Employee Posts: 5,529

    That said, Dave's plan of creating a pericope-based reading plan is fantastic. If you create a whole Bible plan, it will (potentially) spread your material for you without you having to do the work (and without needing to count the pericopes).

    Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer

  • Mark Smith
    Mark Smith MVP Posts: 11,835

    Create a Reading Plan based on Pericopes and daily readings.

    I did that and didn't know when I had gotten to the actual pericope level. It obediently keeps dividing (or combining) sections up to the limit of 215 weeks. It would take some work to figure out exactly when I'd hit the right number of weeks.

    Of course, Andrew knows just how to find the data!

    Pastor, North Park Baptist Church

    Bridgeport, CT USA

  • Mark Smith
    Mark Smith MVP Posts: 11,835

    I did that and didn't know when I had gotten to the actual pericope level.

    The software only allows a maximum of 1500 sessions. According to Andrew's results that would not cover almost all the Bibles he listed. 

    It seems that we should be able to create a pericope based reading plan that actually works on the level of pericopes without a lot of extra effort or knowledge. Is that something FL could create???

    EDIT: It seems FL could add a 'time' limit of 'however long it takes' to the drop-down menu and let the software create however long a plan is required.

    Pastor, North Park Baptist Church

    Bridgeport, CT USA

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 55,165

    Thanks for everyone's help - and especially Andrew for running a script.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,216

    Andrew,

    Agree USB4 (with Morph) - 850

    Differ:

    NIV2011 - 2113  vs. 2082    (I have to split the range to overcome the 1500 limit)

    NIV84 - 2062 vs. 2030

    ESV - 2424 vs. 2412

    TNIV - 2137 vs. 2105

    LES - 1913  vs. 1911  (Agree on LES Alt at 49)

            - but the many pericopes in Enoch are treated as a single Enoch 1-89 in both LES and LES2

    Dave
    ===

    Windows 11 & Android 13

  • Andrew Batishko
    Andrew Batishko Member, Community Manager, Logos Employee Posts: 5,529

    NIV2011 - 2113  vs. 2082    (I have to split the range to overcome the 1500 limit)

    NIV84 - 2062 vs. 2030

    ESV - 2424 vs. 2412

    TNIV - 2137 vs. 2105

    LES - 1913  vs. 1911  (Agree on LES Alt at 49)

    I believe this is because there are verses that aren't contained in any pericope. For example, in ESV, Jeremiah 1:1-3, or Malachi 1:1. These verses get included in the reading plan (potentially as separate readings), but are not listed in my counts because I'm just counting the number of pericopes.

       - but the many pericopes in Enoch are treated as a single Enoch 1-89 in both LES and LES2

    LES and LES2 do not have pericopes in Enoch. I'll report this. You can verify this with the Compare Pericopes section of the Passage Analysis tool.

    Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 36,216

    I believe this is because there are verses that aren't contained in any pericope. For example, in ESV, Jeremiah 1:1-3, or Malachi 1:1. These verses get included in the reading plan (potentially as separate readings),

    Yes, they are included as separate readings.

    LES and LES2 do not have pericopes in Enoch. I'll report this. You can verify this with the Compare Pericopes section of the Passage Analysis tool.

    The tool indicates that, but there are "pericope" headings in LES and LES2?

    Dave
    ===

    Windows 11 & Android 13

  • Andrew Batishko
    Andrew Batishko Member, Community Manager, Logos Employee Posts: 5,529

    The tool indicates that, but there are "pericope" headings in LES and LES2?

    The text shows up as labels in the resource, but they aren't included in the dataset. You'll notice that unlike other pericopes in the resource, you can't type those pericope titles in the navigation box for that resource.

    Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer

  • Rick Brannan (Logos)
    Rick Brannan (Logos) Member, Logos Employee Posts: 1,862

    LES and LES2 do not have pericopes in Enoch. I'll report this. You can verify this with the Compare Pericopes section of the Passage Analysis tool.

    To date, I believe we have only included pericope data for books in the Catholic canon + deuterocanon or in the Protestant OT+NT and Apocrypha. These are basically the books found in the ecumenical version of the NRSV with Apocrypha or the NRSV Catholic Edition. Or, in the case of the Psalms of Solomon and the Odes, the Rahlfs edition of the LXX. This is largely for historical (to Logos/Faithlife) and pragmatic reasons. 

    I can (and will) add a case to look into adding the pericope headings from the LES/LES2 Enoch, but I have to be open about it and say that this will not be a high-priority item for us to evaluate and implement.

    Rick Brannan
    Data Wrangler, Faithlife
    My books in print

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 55,165

    I can (and will) add a case to look into adding the pericope headings from the LES/LES2 Enoch, but I have to be open about it and say that this will not be a high-priority item for us to evaluate and implement.

    Somehow, the old "we didn't do it right in the first place so it is low priority to fix" argument - in some cases this is reasonable. Here it sounds rather silly.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."