README

Introduction

This is a repo of tools for the analysis of the Syriac Peshitta based on George A. Kiraz SEDRA 3 database (see below). It relies on bits and pieces taken from other repos and my own code. See Sources for details.

Data files

peshitta_list.txt

This is a database file containing the data culled from the SEDRA database. It has the form of:

reference unpointed-form pointed-form lemma gloss parse

The reference is a number such that:

• 0-2 = book
• 2-4 = chapter
• 4-6 = verse
• 6-8 = word index

For example, take the number 520100101. 52 is the book (Matthew in this case), 01 is the first chapter, 001 is verse 1, and 01 is the first word in the verse.

peshitta_sections.txt

A list of pericope definitions in the following form:

pericope-key start end title

start and end are references in the same format as in peshitta_list.txt

Code files

peshitta.py

• peshitta_section(start, end) is an iterator over all the lines in the from peshitta_list.txt (see below) within the start and end reference numbers.

• peshitta_pericopes() returns an iterator over the pericopes for the Peshitta. This function relies on the definitions found in peshitta_sections.txt (see below). It returns a tuple of (reference, start, end, title).

• get_peshitta_pericopes_dir() is a helper function that returns a dictionary for all pericopes. The section number is the key, with (start, end, title) as the value.

build_pericope_db.py

Uses peshitta.py to build the three reading order databases found in the analysis folder. Each line of the database has the form of pericope-key and items separated by a tab (\t).

calc_reading_order.py

This file builds three reading orders for the Peshitta using the next_best algorithm from ordering.py.

• calc_path(fname, oname, name_map) where fname is the file path to the database containing a map of pericopes to items to be learned. Each line of the database has the form of pericope-key and items separated by a tab (\t).

This file currently reads three database files found in the analysis folder and outputs three reading paths through the Syriac NT to the reading_orders folder.

to_html.py

Builds a simple (very simple) html reader based on the reading order found in reading_combined.txt. This can be changed to use any of the other reading orders and it should still work fine.

sedra/convert_to_words.py

This script builds peshitta_list.txt from the files in the sedra directory.

Sources

ordering.py is from James Tauber's vocabulary-tools.

This work makes use of the Syriac Electronic Data Retrieval Archive (SEDRA) by George A. Kiraz, distributed by the Syriac Computing Institute.

See this paper for more info:

G. Kiraz, `Automatic Concordance Generation of Syriac Texts', in VI Symposium Syriacum 1992, ed. R. Lavenant, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 247, Rome, 1994.

SEDRA 3 License

You are allowed to use SEDRA III for personal and academic purposes provided that:

1. You do NOT redistribute any altered versions of the files.
2. You do NOT redistribute any files for any kind of profit.
3. You acknowledge in any publication whose results make use of SEDRA III, by any means, using a formula similar to the following: This work makes use of the Syriac Electronic Data Retrieval Archive (SEDRA) by George A. Kiraz, distributed by the Syriac Computing Institute.

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Except for the SEDRA 3 data which is covered by the license cited above.