This repository contains an index of morphological and orthographic variation at the lexical level in the Hebrew Bible and the larger Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Download and unzip the zip file or alternatively clone this repository.
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To navigate the entire index, open Index.html. Depending on your computer, it may take multiple seconds to open this file.
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To investigate specific books or scrolls, open the profiles/html folder and choose the relevant book or scroll.
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The html files use hyperlinks to display the concordances thus creating a simple, but efficient interface that is available offline. The data that is reproduced and enriched only contains the varying items, without any indications of their actual locations in the documents.
This data is based on databases compiled by Westminster Theological Seminary (WTS) and by Marty Abegg. The underlying text cannot be reconstructed based on this index. It is considered fair use. Both the data from WTS and Abegg are currently being 'open sourced'.
This data (not the Accordance data) is licensed CCBYSANC, meaning (among other things) that you have to provide a proper reference if you use it, change it, or distribute it, but that you are free to use the data.
Please find the appropriate volume and issue number of the Journal for Semitics (JSEM) and include the DOI of that article, or include the DOI of the zenodo repository.
For instance:
Johan de Joode. 2020. "Digital Masorah: Toward an Index of Orthographic and Morphological Variation at the Lexical Level". Journal for Semitics VOL (ISSUE). https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6573/6632.
The research for this article and this dataset was conducted as part of the project A corpus linguistic approach of Classical Hebrew: A pilot project (3H160213, KU Leuven, Eibert Tigchelaar and Pierre Van Hecke).