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Ethiopic Jeremiah

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Aligned
Texts
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Variants
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The spreadsheet shows the data produced by the THEOT script labeled “create 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.

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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Jeremiah: Sample, Best Representatives, Minor Recensions, Other Studies
  • Sample of the Text: Jeremiah 2: 1-37
  • Sample Size: 2.5% of the book.
  • Sample of Manuscripts: 34. Ber 3067 (16th), BerPeter42 (15th), BN Abb 035 (17th), BN Abb 055 (15th), Cam Add. 1570 (1588), BL Add. 24991 (17th), BL Or 496 (17th), EMIP 0682 (20th), EMIP 0827 (18th), EMIP 0937 (19th), EMIP 0945 (18th), EMIP 1029 (15th), EMIP 1051 (17th), EMIP 1083 (18th), EMIP 1091 (1921), EMIP 1105 (l18-e19th), EMML 0065 (e19th), EMML 2080 (14th), EMML 2082 (16-17th), EMML 8644 (15th), EMML 6686 (17), EMML 7584, EMML 8671, GG63(15th), GG106 (1682-1706), GG 183 (15th), IES 0077 (1934), IES 0722 (=EMML25), ML26 (14th), UNES2.16 (19th), UNES10.4, UNES10.12 (18th), UNES10.48 (e20th), Vat Cer 75 (1930)
  • Number of Data Points Generated: 32,572.
  • Earliest Attested 1 Best Representative – GG 63 (15th).
  • Earliest Attested 2 Best Representative – BN Abb 55 (15-16th).
  • Standardized 1 Best Representative – GG 106 (1682-1706) and EMIP 945 (18th) both represent the cluster well.
  • Modern Textus Receptus Best Representative – IES 77 (1934).
  • Minor Recension: CamAdd 1570 (1588), UNESCO 10.4 (17-18th), BerPeter 42 (15th), and ML 26 (14-15th) all represent a minor recension with a 4% degree of difference from one another and a 45% degree of difference from the rest of the tradition.
  • Garry Jost and Steve Delamarter contributed a study on the textual history of the Book of Jeremiah to a conference organized by Martin Heide and Stefan Weninger on Ethiopic Jeremiah. The proceedings were published in "The Digital Methodology of the Textual History of the Ethiopic Old Testament (THEOT) Project Applied to Ethiopic Jeremiah 2." Studies on the Ethiopic Old Testament: Prolegomena to a Critical Edition of the Jeremiah Cycle. Edited by Stefan Weninger and Martin Heide. Aethiopica Supplements, 11. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2022. Pages 79-106.
  • Link to the webpage for the book: https://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/Studies_on_the_Ethiopic_Old_Testament/title_7087.ahtml