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Hosea


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Ethiopic Hosea

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Aligned
Texts
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Variants
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Words
Profile
Match
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The spreadsheet shows the data produced by the THEOT script labeled “process database of variants”. Click the image on the left to open a copy of the spreadsheet. Click the image on the right to see a video explaining how this data was produced or processed.

Dendrogram
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The jpeg shows the Dendrogram produced by feeding the R file and a CSV (comma separated values) file into the R program to generate a dendrogram. The colored boxes and stars represent our interpretation of the dendrogram, and become our working hypothesis for investigation of the book. Click the image on the left the dendrogram. Click the image on the right to see a video on THEOT Dendrograms and How to Use them.

THEOT
Text
Viewer
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These links explore the THEOT Text Viewer and How to Use It. Click the image on the left to open the website directly. Click the image on the right to see a video introducing the Text Viewer and How to Use it.

Best
Representative
Manuscripts
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Minority Variants
in the 14-16th Centuries (EthI) and their Fate in the 17-20th Centuries (EthII)
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The spreadsheet shows the data that establish the phenomena of minority variants in the EthI Period and their Fate in the EthII period. Click the image on the left to open a copy of the spreadsheet. Click the image on the right to see a video explaining how this data was produced and then filtered in order to see the hidden patterns of shared variation.

New Readings
from the
17th to the 20th Centuries
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The spreadsheet shows the data that establish the phenomena of New Readings of the Seventeenth Century. Click the image on the left to open a copy of the spreadsheet. Click the image on the right to see a video explaining how this data was produced and then filtered in order to see the hidden patterns of shared variation.

Hosea: Sample, Best Representatives, Minor Recensions, Other Studies
  • Sample of the Text: Hos 1:2, 1:10, 2:3–5, 2:12–15, 2:23, 3:1–4, 4:3–7, 4:15–16, 5:11–13, 6:4–5, 6:10–11, 7:6–7, 8:7–10, 9:1–4, 10:8–14, 11:7–8, 12:8–10, 13:3–5, 13:12–15, 14:2–4
  • Sample Size: 36.2% of the book.
  • Sample of Manuscripts: 34. BN Abb. 35 (17th), BN Abb. 55 (16th), Cambridge Add. 1570 (1597), Davies Axum Church of Zion (15th), EMIP 0654 (16th), EMIP 0746 (Chelekot Selasse 5, 19th), EMIP 0881 (Chelekot Selasse 142, 17th), EMIP 0949 (Mekele Mikael 172, e20th), EMIP 1029 (Mihur Gedam 54, 16th), EMIP 1063 (Addis Alem 21, 19th), EMIP 1070 (Addis Alem 28 = A1-IV-96, 1914), EMIP 1095 (Addis Alem 53, 19th), EMIP 2007 (Tweed 58, 18th), EMML 0036 (19th), EMML 0349 (1924), EMML 1481 (17th), EMML 1768 (15th), EMML 1842 (17th), EMML 2080 (16th), EMML 2440 (1663), EMML 6686 (17th), EMML 6930 (18th), EMML 7584 (16th), EMML 8934 (14th), Gunda Gunde 106 (17th), Gunda Gunde 152 (C3-IV-3, 16th), Gunda Gunde 181 (C3-IV-189, 16th), Gunda Gunde 203 (C3-IV-179, 15th), IES 77 (1934), Princeton Garrett Ethiopic 7 (17th), UNESCO 10.04 (17th), UNESCO 10.34 (e20th), UNESCO 10.65 (19th), Vat Cerulli 75 (1931).
  • Number of Data Points Generated: 58,616.
  • Earliest Attested 1 Best Representative – GG 152 (16th).
  • Earliest Attested 2 Best Representative – EMML 1768 (l15th). Another good representative of Earliest Attested 2 is Davies Axum Zion 4 (l15th).
  • A good example of an Earliest Attested outlier text is Bibliothèque nationale Abbadie 35.
  • Standardized 1 Best Representative – GG 106 (1682-1706).
  • Standardized 2 Best Representative – EMML 2440 (1663).
  • Standardized 3 Best Representative – EMML 36 (18-19th).
  • Standardized 4 Best Representative – EMML 6686 (17th).
  • Modern Textus Receptus Best Representative – VatCer 75 (1930-31). Another good representative of Modern Textus Receptus is IES 77 (1934). *
  • Minor Recensions: EMIP 949 (e20th), UNESCO 10.34 (1931), and EMML 7942 (20th, not a part of the sample) represent a minor recension, translated from the Latin Vulgate, with a 42% degree of difference from the rest of the tradition.
* The phrase “best representative of the Modern Textus Receptus” can refer to two different things. One the one hand there is the statistical best representative, which refers to the manuscript that most consistently carries the reading of the manuscripts in the Modern Textus Receptus cluster. One the other hand there is the sociological reality of the church in reference to the Modern Textus Receptus of the 20th Century. After its creation in 1934, the Haile Selassie Bible - known to us by its shelf mark IES 77 – this manuscript was, in practice, the received text of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. In non-academic parlance, the people referred to it as the Mehaber Hawaryat edition. We would acknowledge this as the sociological textus receptus for the 20th Century. With the publication of the New Ge`ez Bible it remains to be seen to what degree the church will adopt the New Ge`ez Bible over the Haile Selassie Bible.