What Greek New Testament text does opentext.org use?
In the early days opentext.org used Codex Sinaiticus to avoid copyright restrictions with the German Bible Society (http://www.opentext.org/resources/articles/a1.html). But when I look at the Logos information window for this resource, it says the Greek New Testament text is copyright 1993 Deutsche Bibelgeselschaft. This is the date of the UBS4/NA27, so I am guessing that opentext.org uses one of these now. Can someone confirm which one it is or if it is still based on Codex Sinaiticus?
Also, it is interesting that the Logos information window for the NA27 says copyright 1998. I assume this is because the used the third printing of the IBS4 as the basis for the electronic edition.
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The OpenText.org material uses the UBS4 as its textual basis.
Rick Brannan | Bluesky: rickbrannan.com
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Some more background: To my knowledge, the OpenText.org analysis never used Sinaiticus, despite the article on their site. I believe that was their intention, but I think that there was never a text available to use.
Their initial analysis (or portions of it), I believe, was based on a version of Westcott-Hort (again, my supposition, but based on my experience processing their data). They later revised and migrated to UBS4. So the intent of the edition in Logos is to reflect the text of UBS4.
Rick Brannan | Bluesky: rickbrannan.com
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Thanks Rick.
I remember Stan Porter was frustrated because he could not get the UBS/NA text to analyze without paying a massive royalty. That is why they started with Sinaiticus. Thus the concept of an "open text" of the Greek New Testament, since that manuscript is old enough that it cannot be copyrighted. So I am glad to hear it now uses the UBS4 text.
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