BlogosGod's Word | our words | meaning, communication, & technology | following Jesus, the Word made fleshSearch Interfaces for the Composite Gospel- July 29, 2006 I'm preparing a new version of the Composite Gospel Index pages, to standardize around the ESV text, and hopefully provide both more usability and more visual appeal. Designing an interface for this data poses some interesting challenges. There's a wealth of different attributes available, and while some (like traditional verse references) are familiar to most Bible students, i'm hoping to get outside the box a bit and do some novel things. The whole point of the Composite Gospel is to provide.http://www.semanticbible.com/blogos/2006/07/29.html#a489 Topic Labels and Semantic Bible Search- July 18, 2006 But Jesus called them to him and said, "You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave, even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many." (Matt.20.25-28) I've been thinking about topic labels for Scripture passages lately: a deceptively.http://www.semanticbible.com/blogos/2006/07/18.html#a488 Lexical Statistics in the New Testament- July 15, 2006 I've been putting some of the data behind the Hyper-concordance into MySQL, in preparation for computing some statistics on lexical co-occurrence. Along the way, i've been collecting some numbers that i thought others might find interesting. There are a number of other sources for NT statistics: for example, this page from Prof. Felix Just shows words per verse per chapter per book (in the Greek NT). What's different about the numbers below is that they're based on Hyper-concordance's...http://www.semanticbible.com/blogos/2006/07/15.html#a487 NY Times Article on Parts of Speech- July 14, 2006 There's an interesting piece in the NY Times about linguistic parts of speech. It taught me the word Anthimeria (Greek: "one part for another"): from Wikipedia, "the use of a word of one class as if it were a member of another, typically the use of a noun as a verb." 'chill', meaning to relax (and thereby be culturally, rather than thermally, cool) would be an example.http://www.semanticbible.com/blogos/2006/07/13.html#a486 |