Normalized Datasets of Hahn’s and Zahn’s Reconstructions of Marcion’s &lt;i&gt;Gospel&lt;/i&gt;

Mark G Bilby

doi:10.5334/johd.63

Abstract

These four datasets are the first born-digital, normalized, lexicographically enriched, and peer-reviewed versions of the reconstructions of Marcion’s Gospel made by August Hahn in 1832 and Theodor Zahn in 1892. Two dataset files were generated for each reconstruction: the first consisting of human-readable Postclassical Greek; the second of lemmatized and morphologically tagged text following the openly licensed BibleWorks Greek Morphology schema. These datasets represent another batch in a series of normalized and enriched datasets of major reconstructions of Marcion’s Gospel published by JOHD.

Highlights

Humanities DataMorphology key: Bilby, M.G. (2021a). Key to BibleWorks Greek Morphology (BGM) (v1.1)
The history of scholarly reconstructions of the Gospel of Marcion (GMarc) is briefly detailed in our Harnack (Bilby, 2021b) and Roth (Bilby, 2021c) data papers
Clear relationships exist among these reconstructions because of their shared dependence on common underlying data: over 700 patristic attestations to GMarc by over fifteen ancient witnesses, hundreds of textual variants and thousands of non-variants in manuscripts of Luke, and tens of thousands of close parallel words in other gospels

Summary

Humanities Data

Morphology key: Bilby, M.G. (2021a). Key to BibleWorks Greek Morphology (BGM) (v1.1). The history of scholarly reconstructions of the Gospel of Marcion (GMarc) is briefly detailed in our Harnack (Bilby, 2021b) and Roth (Bilby, 2021c) data papers. Eight major published reconstructions have appeared over the last two centuries: Hahn (1832), Zahn (1892), von Harnack (1921/924), Tsutsui (1992), BeDuhn (2013), Roth (2015), Klinghardt (2015/2020, 2021), and Nicolotti (2019). Given the central place of GMarc in heated debates about the compositional and editorial formation of the earliest gospels (both canonical and non-canonical), quantitative analyses, computational linguistics (CL), and historical corpus linguistics (HCL) have the potential to clarify and transcend the deep subjective and idiosyncratic divides within scholarship and may prove decisive in settling centuries-old questions about the earliest texts that arose out of the Jesus movement

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