Open Greek New Testament Project

Open Greek New Testament Project aims to:

• offer a FREE NA-equivalent text of Greek New Testament, compiled from open-resources;
• align a FREE NA-equivalent Greek New Testament with a group of high-quality and open-source materials.

The FREE NA-equivalent text is named as "Open Greek New Testament [OGNT]". The text of OGNT was built upon and compiled from a group of high-quality scholarly materials. It serves as the base text for the rest of the project. This provides all bible students or scholars a FREE text of Greek New Testament, which is the closest equivalent to the text of NA28 / NA27, for studies or research purposes.

As the text of OGNT is close to the text of NA28 / NA27, OGNT is a very good candidate for bridging a free Greek New Testament text with resources, which were originally keyed to the text of NA28 / NA27. So far, Open Greek New Testament Project had successfully aligned the text of OGNT with various scholarly resources, e.g. Tyndale Amalgamated NT Tagged texts, OpenText Linguisitic Annotations, Levinsohn Greek New Testament Features, Mounce Greek-English Dictionary, Berean interlinear translations, etc.

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Upgraded to Version 3

25 August 2018: The base text of OpenGNT project had been upgraded to version 3. Previous versions, 1 & 2, are no longer supported.

There are 2 major files (file description is available HERE):

• Base Text of OGNT: OpenGNT_BASE_TEXT.zip
• Keyed Features and Mapping IDs: OpenGNT_keyedFeatures.csv.zip

The base text of OpenGNT project, OGNT, is currently the closest equivalent to the text of NA28.

The base text and the rest of Open Greek New Testament Project is released under a public license described below.

Comparison between OGNT and NA28 is briefly described HERE.

Source: A Brief History

Previous Versions (versions 1 & 2)

Previous two versions of the base text of OpenGNT project were compiled from TANTT - Tyndale Amalgamated NT Tagged texts. They are now replaced by the latest version (version 3). No support will be provided for the previous versions.

The Latest Version (version 3)

The latest base text of Open Greek New Testament Project, OGNT in short, was compiled from Berean Greek Bible and its associated database, which is primarily based on the Greek New Testament, Η ΚΑΙΝΗ ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗ, edited by Eberhard Nestle, published in 1904 by the British and Foreign Bible Society.

The Greek New Testament (Nestle, 1904) is now a public domain document worldwide, without any limitations for use or copyright issues. The Berean Bible Translation Committee adopted it years ago as the base text for developing Berean Greek Bible and associated resources on New Testament.

The final text of Berean Greek Bible is primary based on Nestle Greek New Testament (1904), with modernisation of spellings and textual decisions reflecting the best and earliest manuscripts. In addition, Berean translation table marks some significant textual variants of popular critical Greek New Testament editions, with a set of symbols.

In August 2018, Eliran Wong [BibleBento.com] received permission, granted by John Isett [BibleHub.com] to integrate Berean Greek Bible and its associated data into Open Greek New Testament Project, for compilation, mapping resources and distribution.

As the Greek New Testament (Nestle, 1904) shares the same heritage with later NA texts (e.g. NA27, NA28), it soon became obvious that Berean Greek data is a very good source for compiling a NA-equivalent text, which is reliable for both reading and further mapping valuables resources based on NA27 / NA28.

Compilation of the Base Text of OGNT

Berean Greek Bible and its associated data (inclusive) were then taken into review and processed, for compilation of a NA-equivalent Greek New Testament. The compilation process is briefly described below:

• Original variant markers in Berean database (inclusive) were reviewed, a few of them were refined. A few missing variants from Byzantine text were added to the database. The were marked with "＋BYZ" in the database, formatted for compilation.
• BGB was compared with Bunning Heuristic Prototype Greek New Testament, BHP in short, released by Center for New Testament Restoration. The comparison considers major variants only, ignoring minor issues like movable ν, αλλ vs αλλα, etc. BHP was taken into weighing textual decisions, as it is one of the latest projects, reflecting the best and earliest manuscripts. The review results in adaptation of some BHP's readings in place of some BGB readings. They were marked with "＋BHP" in the database, formatted for compilation. Remarks: BHP was not available for consideration in the original development of Berean Greek Bible, because it had not been published at the first launch of Berean Greek Bible.
• All TR, BYZ, WH, NE variants, originally marked in Berean database with symbols "{} ⧼⧽ () 〈〉", and some of SBL variants, marked with "〈〉", were taken away from the compilation.
• Verses containing ⇔ in original Berean database were reviewed and compared with free GNT editons (i.e. TR, BYZ, WH, SBL, BHP). Word order in 71 verses were adapted from other editions and were documented HERE.
• Berean Greek Bible uses KJV versification. Original GNT's versification (Nestle 1904) had been worked out, with minor variations following SBLGNT's versification.
• Punctuation marks were taken away during the compilation.

Transparency

• To ensure transparency, the original database for compilation, including Berean Greek Data, and additional data mentioned above, is uploaded HERE.
• The process of the compilation is repeatable through the use of a simple Python script uploaded HERE. The script is provided for the sake of transparency. In addition, it may be useful for validation or checking.

To use the script:

• unzip file "source_BereanGreekBible_Inclusive.csv.zip"
• place files "berean_tablesInclusive.csv" and "compileOGNT.py" in the same folder
• run command "python compileOGNT.py"

A NA-Equivalent Text

The resulting text is suprisingly very close to the text of NA28. Apart from minor orthographical variations, it only has a total of 61 words different from the text of NA28. The text is now taken as the latest version (version 3) of the base text of Open Greek New Testament Project, replacing all previous versions. It is not only the closest equivalent to the text of NA28 / NA27, but also the best FREE candidate for mapping resources originally keyed to NA28 / NA27, e.g. OpenText Linguistic Annotations, Levinsohn Greek New Testament discourse features.

Comparison OGNT with NA28

Comparison between OGNT and NA28 is briefly described HERE.

License:

The main text of Open Greek New Testament Project, OGNT in short, is released under the following license:

Open Greek New Testament Project by Eliran Wong is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://github.com/eliranwong/OpenGNT.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://biblebento.com/contact/contactform.php.

Information given for attribution:

Open Greek New Testament Project
by Eliran Wong [BibleBento.com; Contact],
Source at https://github.com/eliranwong/OpenGNT/

[Remarks: Please include all links available in the credit information above.]

Other Credits:

TANTT data:
"Tyndale House, Cambridge" [www.TyndaleHouse.com],
and "STEP Bible" [www.STEPBible.org]
and source at tyndale.github.io/STEPBible-Data/

Berean Interlinear Bible
The Holy Bible, Berean Interlinear Bible, BIB
Copyright ©2016, 2018 by Bible Hub
Used by Permission. All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
berean.bible - Berean Bible Homepage
interlinearbible.com - Berean Interlinear Bible
literalbible.com - Berean Literal Bible
bereanbible.com - Berean Study Bible
emphasizedbible.com - Berean Emphasized Bible

The OpenText.org Syntactically Annotated Greek New Testament
Stanley E. Porter
Matthew Brook O'Donnell
Jeffrey T. Reed
Source: GNT Annotation (version 1.0)
This annotation was completed in 2006 and was made available for viewing on the OpenText.org website and also implemented in Logos bible search software.
The annotation data has been migrated to a new, inline XML format by Christopher Land and the base text has been corrected and updated to the NA28 by Christopher Land and Ryder Wishart.

Levinsohn's Greek New Testament Discourse Features
Stephen Levinsohn's complete discourse features markup of the Greek New Testament (UBS4/NA27). This data was originally developed in BART and follow principles Levinsohn documented in his volume of Discourse Features of New Testament Greek.
Source: https://github.com/biblicalhumanities/levinsohn
©2016 SIL International
License
Released by:
Paul O'Rear
Associate Coordinator
International Translation
SIL International

NET Bible Copyright 2nd Edition (2017)
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The NET Bible® verse text (no Notes) can be used by anyone and integrated into your non-commercial project or publication upon condition of proper Biblical Studies Press copyright and organizational acknowledgments ... (http://netbible.com/net-bible-copyright)

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Source: https://github.com/billmounce/dictionary
Used with the following attribution:
Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary
Copyright 1993 All Rights Reserved
www.teknia.com/greek-dictionary

Morphological Lexicon of the Greek New Testament
Source: https://github.com/morphgnt/morphological-lexicon
It is used to process data for mapping purpose.

Enhancement / Forthcoming additions:

• OGNT mapped to Berean Interlinear Translation - DONE!
  
• transliteration (according to SBL guide) - DONE!
  
• modern Greek pronunciation guide - DONE!
  
• an analytical lexicon containing all words of OpenGNT text - DONE!
  
• a full set of context-sensitive glosses for OpenGNT [Find regular updates HERE; read file description HERE.]
• mapping GK numbers (mapped with Mounce's Concise Greek-English dictionary) - First draft; CHECKING in progress
  
• mapping Louw-Nida numbers (numbers only, not copyrighted materials) - First draft; CHECKING in progress
  
• mapping BDAG catchwords (catchwords only, not copyrighted materials) - First draft; CHECKING in progress
  
• mapping EDNT catchwords (catchwords only, not copyrighted materials) - First draft; CHECKING in progress
  
• mapping Mounce's NT dictionary - DONE!
  
• mapping OpenText annotations - DONE!
  
• creating a html template for visual presentation of OpenText annotations - DONE!
  
• mapping Levinsohn's GNT Discourse Features - DONE!; Full mapping is availalbe HERE
  
• tagging the text of OGNT with Levinsohn GNT discourse features, like main clauses, OT quotations, reported speeches, embedded reported speeches, etc. - DONE!
  
• mapping "The NET Bible® verse text (no Notes) - 2nd Edition; New Testament" (1st draft uploaded HERE; subject to on-going revision)
  
• mapping "Chinese Union Version"
  
• more ... you are welcome to suggest other features at https://biblebento.com/contact/contactform.php

Modules for Software Applications

Modules based on OpenGNT project are released gradually for use with bible applications. They are made available in folder "Modules_for_Bible_Applications"

If you are a software developer and interested in this project, you are welcomed to contact Eliran Wong.