PBB: Preliminary and Interim Report of the Hebrew OT Text Project (HOTTP)
The United Bible Societies has started to release some of their data (no, not Bibles) under an open license (CC-BY-SA). (Here's the github repo where they release stuff)
One interesting item they released is the (IIRC) five-volume in print "Preliminary and Interim Report of the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project." This is essentially a textual commentary on the Hebrew Bible.
Since it's open, and since I thought it would be nice to have in my personal version of Logos, I wrote a script to turn the HOTTP XML into a Logos-PBB-compliant word document (*.docx). UBS has released both English and French, but I've only converted the English.
It's all on my github account, you can read more here: https://github.com/RickBrannan/hottp-pbb // read the whole README for instructions on how to download the necessary PBB files if you don't speak github and don't want to worry about code and stuff.
The resulting PBB isn't perfect (I only spent a couple of hours on it from start to in-Logos and there's far more that could be done to make it better) but it is in "good enough" status so I thought I'd mention it here for those interested.
It worked just fine on my account; there are some warnings and stuff when it builds but they should all be OK to ignore.
Rick Brannan | Bluesky: rickbrannan.com
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Thank you very much, Rick!
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Oh, this is super cool. I appreciate it, Rick!
BTW, it seems as if the graphic is not actually there.
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Thanks, Rick.
Asking again for people to vote for a related book, Studies in the Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project https://feedback.logos.com/boards/logos-book-requests/posts/studies-in-the-text-of-the-old-testament
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Asking again for people to vote for a related book, Studies in the Text of the Old Testament: An Introduction to the Hebrew Old Testament Text Project https://feedback.logos.com/boards/logos-book-requests/posts/studies-in-the-text-of-the-old-testament
I voted, but wouldn't hold my breath - the new owners of Eisenbrauns seem to have decided to no longer offer any books on the Logos platform (which I can't see any reason for). Maybe they come back to their senses.
Have joy in the Lord!
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Oh, this is super cool. I appreciate it, Rick!
You're welcome!
BTW, it seems as if the graphic is not actually there.
Hm, it appears to be in the repo. Can you see it at this link: https://github.com/RickBrannan/hottp-pbb/blob/main/data/pbb/hottp-cover.jpg
You can right-click and save image locally from there, I believe (at least on Windows in Chrome).
Rick Brannan | Bluesky: rickbrannan.com
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Yes, that's it. Thank you again!
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This is terrific, Rick. Thank you.
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