Abstract
This pedagogical article presents an example of how one can teach novice students to build and to work with their own digital editions of ancient sources. It discusses modern approaches to digital editions and promotes teaching SQL databases in ancient studies programs. It provides a detailed guide on how one can structure a student database that will be beneficial to students of all levels and disciplines.
Highlights
In the second semester of 2020/1 at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany I taught a course titled Introduction to Digital Editions of the Bible and Texts from the Ancient World
It discusses modern approaches to digital editions and promotes teaching SQL databases in ancient studies programs. It provides a detailed guide on how one can structure a student database that will be beneficial to students of all levels and disciplines
The two primary objectives of the course were (1) to introduce students to relational databases, their construction, and their use in personal small group research in the fields of Bible and ancient studies and (2) to survey for the students additional digital tools and resources used in the development and publication of webbased digital editions
Summary
In the second semester of 2020/1 at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany I taught a course titled Introduction to Digital Editions of the Bible and Texts from the Ancient World. This is an extremely lengthy process, and while it may be aided by using an editor application combined with a custom written CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) file, these are time-consuming and require technical skills to write They may need to change as research develops. While I informed students in my course of XML and about marking up files, I opted to teach students how to perform most necessary procedures for student (and early career) success within a single SQL relational database. On this point, I will begin to describe the course
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